Gil-Sung Park

Professor of Sociology

Korea University

Gil-Sung Park is Professor of Sociology and Director of Institute of Social Research at Korea University, where he has taught since 1992. He also holds the President of Young Professionals Institute of Korea and Adjunct Professorship at Utah State University. He has been a member of Presidential Advisory Committee of Aging and Future Society and Chair of Korea Comparative Sociology Association. He has been a visiting scholar at Center for International Affairs, Harvard University as well as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

His books include Understanding Theories in Economic Sociology (2007) with Tackmeon Lee, and Restructuring of Korean Society: Forced Adjustments and Contentious Coordinations (2003).