Seok Jin Eom

Seok Jin Eom joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University as a visiting scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year. He is a professor of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and received his Ph.D in public administration from Seoul National University. He has published numerous papers in academic journals, including Government Information Quarterly, Public Management Review, Administration & Society, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, and The Korean Public Administration Review. He also published many books on the history of public administration and policy in Korea and Japan, as well as digital government and AI adoption in the public sector, including The Intellectual History of Korean Public Administration (2025, forthcoming), Enabling Data-Driven Innovation and AI Governance (2025), The Changes and Continuity of Japanese State Apparatus (2015), and others. Dr. Eom serves as the editor-in-chief of the Korean Public Administration Review, one of the most prestigious academic journals in Korea. His current research interests include the intellectual evolution of Korean public administration, public governance in the era of economic growth in Korea, and the evolution of governance in the AI era. (sjum21@stanford.edu; sjum21@snu.ac.kr).