Jung In is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. She completed her DPhil in Sociology at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford in 2021 and she recently joined the ESR-funded SIBMOB project led by Kristian Bernt Karlson to conduct a large-scale comparative study to review the class mobility of siblings. Her research interests include social mobility, educational inequality, gender and family dynamics, demography, and geographic and historical mobility. In her previous work, she has analysed the role of higher education and geographic mobility in social mobility. She is the recipient of the Clarendon Scholarship and the ESRC Studentship from the University of Oxford, and the Kerckhoff Award from the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Stratification and Mobility (RC28). Her work appears in Sociology of Education and the British Journal of Sociology. Her current projects focus on (1) social and geographical mobility, (2) historical census records linking methods and social mobility in the 19th century, and (3) family background and demographic outcomes of siblings.  

ChangHwan Kim is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas and Chair of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of American Sociological Association. He is specialized in the areas of stratification, labor markets, education, Asian American studies, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology. The common concern of his research is to contribute to the generation of the critical knowledge and information that will ultimately help policy makers to understand and eventually ameliorate the undesirable sources of increasing socioeconomic polarization in our society. Methodologically, he is interested in panel models and diverse statistical decomposition techniques. His work appears, among others, in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Sociological Methods & Research, Demography, and Korean Journal of Sociology.

Minjeong Kim is professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at San Diego State University. Her research interests include gender, race and ethnicity, international migration, and the media. She is the author of Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Rural South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2018). Her most recent work is an edited volume, Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea: Reflections and Future Directions (with Hyeyoung Woo, Rutgers University Press, 2022). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in various journals including Sociological Forum, Qualitative Sociology, Social Politics, Asian Journal of Sociology, Feminist Media Studies, and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. Her current projects include an ethnographic study of Korean immigrant communities in the U.S. – Mexico border region.

Jaein Lee is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the department of Sociology and Criminology at Arkansas State University, and external faculty associate of Maryland Population Research Center. His research explores vital questions on the contexts of individual and social factors shaping inequalities in various demographic outcomes, primarily inequalities in mortality and health behaviors. His recent papers appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family and Social Forces (with Dr. Caudillo, University of Maryland, College Park). His latest research projects explore how gender differences in attitudes toward homosexuals and suicides are mediated by marital status, age, and religious affiliations in South Korea and other countries (with Dr. Lin, University of Texas, San Antonio), and how trust in government mediates the chance of refusing COVID-19 vaccination in 2020.

Sojung Lim is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory at Utah State University. She currently serves as an inaugural chair of the Korean Sociologists in America Community of American Sociological Association. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality in family, labor market, and health across different social contexts including the US and East Asia. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has been published in various journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Studies, Demographic Research, Social Science Research, BMC Public Health, and Korean Journal of Sociology.

Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Park is interested in educational stratification and family in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. In recent years, he has studied changes in marriage, divorce, and living arrangements as well as consequences of demographic and economic trends for education, well-being, and socioeconomic outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults in Korea. Park has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Demography, Social Science & Medicine, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Annual Review of Sociology, and Demographic Research, among others. He is the author of the book, Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De-mystifying Stereotypes (2013 Routledge). A new book, Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America, coauthored with Phoebe Ho and Grace Kao, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. In 2021, Park published a book on intergenerational social mobility in Korea in Korean. He also coedited two books on Korean families and education, respectively.

I am Director of Institute for Asian Studies & Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. My research interest lies in the areas of gender relations, family behaviors, and health over the life course among people in Korea as well as the United States. Recently, I have published two edited volumes: Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea (with Minjeong Kim); and Korean Families Yesterday and Today (with Hyunjoon Park). My other work has appeared in a number of journals, including Society and Mental Health, Advances in Life Course Research, Research on Aging, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Sociological Perspectives, and Medical Care. Currently, I am working on several projects, including a multi-year project based on women in Korea funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, concerning three research areas: 1. labor force participation trajectories across age groups; 2. perceptions and experiences toward marriage, cohabitation, and childbirth; and 3. well-being of gender/sexuality and economic minority women. Since 2023, I have served as a board member of the council at Pacific Sociological Association.

Su Yeone Jeon is a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 2023. Her research interests include the sociology of development, political economy, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. Her current projects focus on (1) the impact of global regulatory landscape on latecomer countries’ innovation and development in the pharmaceuticals industry, and (2) how risk and uncertainty influence the capitalization of regulated commodities. Her most recent publication was in the Review of International Political Economy. Su Yeone received a B.S. in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University and an M.S. in Sustainability Management and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.