Chung-Ang UniversityDepartment of Sociology

Education and Degree
- Ph.D. in sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison(1984~1988)
- MA. in sociology, University of Minnesota(1982~1984)
- BA. in sociology, University of Seoul National University(1975~1982)

Books in Print
- 2022, Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia(with Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison)
- 2015, Social Democracy in Sweden: Labor, Welfare, and the Politics
- 2013, A Study of Inequality in South Korea 
- 2005, Social Class and Inequality in South Korea
- 1999, Industrialization and Democratization in East Asia
- 1994, Sociology of Class and Labor Movement

Propessional activites
- President, East Asian Sociological Association since January(2024)
- CAU Fellow, Chung-Ang University, South Korea(2020~2025)
- President, Korean Sociological Association(2017~2018)
- Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Ritsumeikan University, Japan(2015~2016)
- Editorial Board Member of Social Forces since September(2013)(Oxford, UK)
- Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Contemporary Asia since April(2013)(Routledge, UK)
- The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize(2011) (2011), Runner-up Prize “Globalization and the Working Class in South Korea: Contestation, Fragmentation and Renewal”, The Contemporary Journal of Asia 
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University, Japan(2010~2010)
- President, Korea Critical Sociological Association(2008~2008)
- President, Scandinavian Association in Korea(2007~2012)
- Visiting Professor, the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China(2007~2007)
- Consulting Editorial Board Member, Acta Sociologica (The Journal of Nordic Sociological Association)(2004~2008)
- Editorial Board Member, Globalizations since(2003)(Routldege, UK)
- Editor-in-chief, Economy and Society (Korean Journal)(2001~2003)
- Research Fellow at the Survey Research Center, UC-Berkeley, USA(1994~1995)
- Guest Professor, Department of Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark(1994~1994)