2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)
2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)
Thursday, September 11, 2025 | 8:30 AM - Friday, September 12, 2025 | 8:00 PM
(Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford University
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By invitation only
The Korea Program at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is pleased to host the 4th International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), September 11-12, 2025. The conference will provide a venue for scholars across the globe to come together to share their ongoing projects on Korea and the Korean diaspora. The program will consist of paper presentations that address various issues of sociological significance, including family, health, and population; gender and sexualities; (im)migration, race, and ethnicity; stratification and inequality; political sociology / economic sociology; and other topics.
8:30-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00-9:20am: Welcoming Remarks
Paul Chang, Deputy Director of Korea Program, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Hyunjoon Park, Director of James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania
9:20-11:00am: Family Dynamics (Moderator: Sojung Lim, Utah State University)
Optimizing Motherhood: How Mothers Understand and Manage Childcare Outsourcing in Contemporary Korea
Jimin Gim
Causal or Selection? A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium among South Korean Men
Soojin Kim and Seongsoo Choi
Balancing Work and Child: The Impact of Parental Work Hours on Children’s Education Attainment
Taehyun Kim
Socioeconomic Background and Childcare Support from Older Parents among Adult Daughters in South Korea: Cohort Differences
Jung In
11:00-11:20am: Break
11:20-1:00pm: Health and Aging (Moderator: Jaein Lee, Arkansas State University)
Generalized Anxiety, Regional Context and Gendered Suicide Intent among South Korean Adolescents: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample
Harris Hyun-soo Kim and Ahhyun Cho
Social Precision Modeling for Depression in South Korea
Haesol Kim, Woojin Kim, Minjee Jung, Kyu-man Han, and Eun Kyong Shin
Exploration of the Association Between Active Leisure Time and Mental Health of Older Adults in South Korea
Jaein Lee and Sujung Lee
Aging with Work: Manifest and Latent Benefits of Later-Life Employment in an Aging Society
Sungsik Hwang and Chaeyoon Lim
1:00-2:00pm: Lunch
2:00-3:40pm: The Korean Diaspora (Moderator: Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania)
Gender Differences in Educational Selectivity among Korean Immigrants in the US
Minyoung An
Asian American Poverty: Myths, Realities, and Complexities
ChangHwan Kim and Andrew Taeho Kim
Gendered Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Korean Immigrant Families Negotiate Gendered Roles
Byung Soo Lee
An Empirical Analysis of Social Capital of the Korean Community in Ho Chi Minh City (Viet Nam)
Ta Thi Lan Khanh
3:40-4:00pm: Break
4:00-5:40pm: Education and Technology (Moderator: Jung In, Soongsil University)
Highbrow Culture and Academic Achievement: Comparing Individual and Organized Participation among Elementary Students in Seoul
Soo-yong Byun, Haram Jeon, and Hee Jin Chung
Achievement, Growth, and Impact: Analyzing School Effectiveness Using Longitudinal Data from the Korean National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Sookyung Han and Seongsoo Choi
Ivy League Dreams, but Greater Returns with “SKY”? Shifting Cultural Reproduction in the Era of Globalization
HongJin Jo
How Generative AI Transforms Programmers: The Role of Usage Frequency, Sense of Agency, and Occupational Self-Efficacy
Chankyu Kim
6:00pm: Reception & Dinner
Keynote Address: Gi-Wook Shin, Director of Korea Program, APARC; William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea, Stanford University
2025 I-CSK Student Paper Award
8:30-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00-10:40am: Dating, Marriage, and Gender (Moderator: Hyeyoung Woo, Portland State University)
Dating and Romantic Relationships among Young Adults in South Korea: Educational Differentials
Soo-Yeon Yoon and Hyunjoon Park
Structural Constraints and Marriage Intentions in East Asia: Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Korea, Japan, and Urban China
Sinn Won Han, Ohjae Gowen, and Senhu Wang
Media Discourses on Fertility and Young People in South Korea between 1990 and 2020
Sojung Lim and Eunkyung Song
Gendered Pathways to Perpetual Fame: The Selection of Elite Korean Novelists into the Literary Canon
Jina Lee
10:40-11:00am: Break
11:00-12:15pm: Multiculturalism and Multicultural Families (Moderator: Minjeong Kim, San Diego State University)
Life Satisfaction of Cross-Border Marriage Migrants in South Korea: Exploring the Educational Assortative Mating
Sohee Shin
Breaking Ties Across Borders: The Legal Complexity of Transnational Divorce in South Korea
Sangsoo Lee
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Migrant Narratives and the Limits of Tamunhwa
Maleah Webster
12:15-1:20pm: Lunch
1:20-3:00pm: Collective Action and Social Movements (Moderator: Paul Chang, Stanford University)
How South Korea Became a Waste-Sorting Nation? The Role of Apartment Communities in the Success of Volume-Based Waste Fees
Eunsang Kim
Protest or Festival? LGBTQ+ Sports Activism in East Asia
Jinsun Yang
Analysis of Turnover Intentions and Structural Constraints among Regular Workers
Habeen Lim
Social Movements in Debt: How South Korea Reinvented Civil Lawsuits as Necrocapital Legal Violence to Punish Labor Unions and Political Protesters
Heewon Kim
3:00-3:20pm: Break
3:20-5:00pm: The Contested Nation (Moderator: ChangHwan Kim, University of Kansas)
Intergroup Contact and Nation-Building in South Korea's Compulsory Conscription
Haley Gordon
Sites of Memory, Sites of Exclusion? National Holidays as Spaces of National Identity Discourse in South Korea and Germany
Vanessa Sonta
"Reappearing": How Transnational Korean Adoptees Are Using Genetic Testing to Make Legal Claims to Kinship and Citizenship in South Korea
Shannon Bae
Networking within and beyond Borders: Transnational Social Capital, Academic Elite, and State Power
Ruo-Fan Liu and Gi-Wook Shin
6:00: Conference Dinner
Minyoung An, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Shannon Bae, PhD candidate, University of California, Irvine
Soo-yong Byun, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Chankyu Kim, MA candidate, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University
Paul Chang, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Jimin Gim, PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Haley Gordon, PhD student, Stanford University, Department of Sociology
Sinn Won Han, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University
Sookyung Han, Master's student, Yonsei University
Sungsik Hwang, PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jung In, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sociology, Soongsil University
HongJin Jo, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Tạ Khanh, PhD candidate, Ho Chi Minh Institute for Cadre Development, Viet Nam
ChangHwan Kim, Professor, University of Kansas
Eunsang Kim, Integrated Bachelor and Master Program Student , Department of Sociology, Yonsei University
Harris Kim, Professor, Ewha Womans University
Heewon Kim, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Minjeong Kim, Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University
Soojin Kim, Master's student, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University
Taehyun, Kim PhD student, Ohio State University
Byung Soo Lee, PhD candidate, University at Buffalo
Jaein Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arkansas State University
Jina Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sangsoo Lee, Assistant Professor, Korea University
Habeen Lim, Master student, Yonsei University, Department of Sociology
Sojung Lim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Utah State University
Ruo-Fan Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Sohee Shin, PhD student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Eun Kyong Shin, Associate Professor, Korea University
Gi-Wook Shin, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Vanessa Sonta, PhD candidate, Pusan National University
Maleah Webster, incoming Stanford Sociology PhD Student
Hyeyoung Woo, Professor of Sociology, Portland State University
Jinsun Yang, PhD candidate, University of Oregon
Soo-Yeon Yoon, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University