<Education>

Yonsei University, Seoul, B.A. in Public Administration (1992)

Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, Ph.D in Political Science (2000)

 

<Academic Activities>

Editor-in-Chief, Korean Public Administration Review (01.2023~Present)

Director, Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum (09.2022~08.2024)

President, Korea Social Security Association (2023)

Winner, the 68th National Academy of Sciences Award (大韓民國學術院賞) (2023)

 

<Books>

The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

The Small Welfare State: Rethinking Welfare in the US, Japan, and South Korea (Edward Elgar, 2020)

The Logic of Welfare(복지의 원리): Eleven Stories to Grasp the Korean Welfare State (Hanibook, 2023)