Park Gil-sung

Park Gil-sung

Park in 2005
Korean name
Hangul 박길성
Hanja 朴吉聲
Revised Romanization Bak Gilseong
McCune–Reischauer Pak Kilsŏng

Gil-Sung Park (born 9 May 1957) is the 29th Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Sociology at Korea University. Park was also a former Dean of College of Liberal Arts at Korea University, served the board of directors of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Korea, and was a former Vice President of the Korean Sociological Association.

Biography

Park was born in Myungju, Gangwon-do, South Korea. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Korea University, followed by a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. Professor Park does research and teaching on a variety of issues in economic sociology, information sociology, comparative sociology, developmental sociology, and sociology of world society. He has been a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee of Aging and Future Society, and President of the Korean Comparative Sociological Association. He was also a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Park was a former Director of the Institute of Social Research at Korea University and an adjunct professor at the Utah State University.[1] Park's current research focuses on the Korean Wave and its social, economic, and cultural implications in both Korean and global contexts.

Editorial activity

Park served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals including Global Policy[2] and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.[3] He also guest edited a special issue of the latter journal.[4] Park was previously Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Sociology, a flagship journal of the Korean Sociological Association.

Selected bibliography

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ Korea University's Entry on Gil-Sung Park Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Global Policy: Editorial board
  3. ↑ International Journal of Comparative Sociology - Editorial Board
  4. ↑ (2007) International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol 48(4): 259–260 doi:10.1177/0020715207079528
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