Graduate Students
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Yunseok Jeong (Mater's student)
Yunseok is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Korea University, where he received his BA in Sociology and BS in Computer Science. His academic interests include post-truth, hate speech, and poverty, and his methodological interest is in natural language processing. Before his graduation in the second semester of 2024, he participated in the Korea University Computer Science Department Individual Research and Capstone Design Competition, and won third place for creating a hate speech dataset consisting of approximately 20,000 samples, and developing Korean-language context-based hate speech detector based on sociology. He ran directly to the National Assembly on 2024 December 3, the day of the South Korean Coup, and fought for democracy all night long. In his master's program, he aims to track and collect patterns of hate speech against poverty at the grassroots level and analyse how these images are repeated in the public sphere. He believes that data science, especially NLP, will greatly contribute to sociological research in this process. |
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Hannah Baek (Mater's student)
Hannah is a graduate student in Sociology and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Korea University. She intends to examine how social minorities perceive, interact with, and support one another, as well as how these social relations translate into collective action. She believes investigating the social relations through computational social science and social network analysis vividly captures and represents the lived experiences of underrepresented groups. She is also interested in the conditions driving political polarization, which often results in hatred and social exclusion of minority populations. |
Minji Lee(BA+MA student)
Minji is an undergraduate student studying Economics and Sociology at Korea University. She is currently in Bachelor-Masters program in the department of Sociology. She is interested in various social issues arising in the rapidly changing modern society, particularly phenomena occurring in online spaces. She is also passionate about addressing challenges related to marginalized groups, including those affected by social disasters and minorities. Her goal is to clarify these interests through research methodologies in data science. She hopes her research on social issues will contribute positively to society.
Minji is an undergraduate student studying Economics and Sociology at Korea University. She is currently in Bachelor-Masters program in the department of Sociology. She is interested in various social issues arising in the rapidly changing modern society, particularly phenomena occurring in online spaces. She is also passionate about addressing challenges related to marginalized groups, including those affected by social disasters and minorities. Her goal is to clarify these interests through research methodologies in data science. She hopes her research on social issues will contribute positively to society.
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Seoyoung Lee (BA+MA student)
Seoyoung is an undergraduate student studying Sociology and Statistics at Korea University. She is currently in Bachelor-Masters program in the department of sociology. Her academic interests focus on aspects of society that are constantly changing, including emerging trends, the fusion of two social elements, and shifts in existing social and cultural contexts. Additionally, she aims to explore the impact of online communities, which are facilitated by IT technologies, on society and the potential these communities hold. Her goal is to use data science to analyze social trends and seek out directions for future progress. |
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Inseong Jung ( BA+MA student)
Inseong is an undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at Korea University. He is currently in Bachelor-Masters program in the department of sociology. He is interested in certain events which make the interactions, connections and solidarity, therefore the society itself, more tangible. With sociological theory and data-driven computational approaches, he seeks to trace what society is and how it works. Recently, he worked on a project analyzing the online discourse on the Sewol Ferry and Itaewon crisis. |
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Yeojin Yang (Mater's student)
Yeojin is currently a graduate student in Sociology at Korea University and has a bachelor’s degree in Korean history and Sociology at the same institution. Her academic interests lie in the sociological significance of history and art. She believes that examining the history and art of a society is an essential process to understand that society. Through the lens of data science, she wants to research the societal significance of history and art – how they are perceived by individuals, the impact they have on a society, and their influence on other societies or future generations. |
Haesol Kim (Mater's student)
Haesol is a graduate student studying Sociology at Korea University. She is interested in how uncontrollable and unexpected events, including disaster, war, economic crisis, and disease, inflict varying degrees of risks and costs on different social groups. Her academic agenda seeks to answer how such engendered risks and costs can be mitigated or averted in advance for the most vulnerable social groups and also how opportunities for sociopolitical involvement provided for marginalized citizens can impact the viability of risk mitigation strategies. She believes that the social indicators identifying the mentioned vulnerability, abrupt events, risk, and cost can be constructed and examined by adopting data science and computational methods. She is a recipient of Ilun(일운) Scholarship. She will continue her PhD training at the Department of Sociology, Stanford University.
Haesol is a graduate student studying Sociology at Korea University. She is interested in how uncontrollable and unexpected events, including disaster, war, economic crisis, and disease, inflict varying degrees of risks and costs on different social groups. Her academic agenda seeks to answer how such engendered risks and costs can be mitigated or averted in advance for the most vulnerable social groups and also how opportunities for sociopolitical involvement provided for marginalized citizens can impact the viability of risk mitigation strategies. She believes that the social indicators identifying the mentioned vulnerability, abrupt events, risk, and cost can be constructed and examined by adopting data science and computational methods. She is a recipient of Ilun(일운) Scholarship. She will continue her PhD training at the Department of Sociology, Stanford University.
Eunjae Kim (MA, PhD Candidate)
Eunjae is a PhD student in Sociology and a junior research fellow at Korea University. She earned MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State and BA in Spanish at State University of New York. Her research focus is health and race/ethnicity in the context of social embeddedness and/or networks. She is also interested in text data and natural language processing. She's a recipient of National Research Foundation Research Grant for Doctoral Students.
Eunjae is a PhD student in Sociology and a junior research fellow at Korea University. She earned MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State and BA in Spanish at State University of New York. Her research focus is health and race/ethnicity in the context of social embeddedness and/or networks. She is also interested in text data and natural language processing. She's a recipient of National Research Foundation Research Grant for Doctoral Students.
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Jeongbeen Lim (MA)
Jeongbeen has MA in Sociology at Korea University and graduated with her BA in Psychology at Iowa State University in 2021. Her main sociological focus topics are inequality, juvenile delinquency, and data science. Using the data behind the Internet and applications, she hopes to discover factors that gradually evolve youth deviations and will be reflected in social context & policies. She also studies what patterns are formed by visualizing indicators of educational inequality for the disabled with using computational methods.
Jeongbeen has MA in Sociology at Korea University and graduated with her BA in Psychology at Iowa State University in 2021. Her main sociological focus topics are inequality, juvenile delinquency, and data science. Using the data behind the Internet and applications, she hopes to discover factors that gradually evolve youth deviations and will be reflected in social context & policies. She also studies what patterns are formed by visualizing indicators of educational inequality for the disabled with using computational methods.
Soomin Song (MA, PhD Candidate at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Communication Studies, 2024 Fall, (On leave))
Soomin has a bachelor's degree in Sociology and GLEAC(Global Leader for East Asian Century) and MA in Sociology at Korea University. Her sociological interests include social network, inequality, and diversity. Throughout the internet and social media, she wants to discover the data that reflects social movement and constructions and integrate it with reality to create a better society. She believes quantifying our real life in a social science way can examine the impact of social context and social classes on human behavior. With data science and social network analysis, she studies how social solidarity and shared values are reconstructed into objective indicators and form patterns.Currently she is continuing her PhD training at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Soomin has a bachelor's degree in Sociology and GLEAC(Global Leader for East Asian Century) and MA in Sociology at Korea University. Her sociological interests include social network, inequality, and diversity. Throughout the internet and social media, she wants to discover the data that reflects social movement and constructions and integrate it with reality to create a better society. She believes quantifying our real life in a social science way can examine the impact of social context and social classes on human behavior. With data science and social network analysis, she studies how social solidarity and shared values are reconstructed into objective indicators and form patterns.Currently she is continuing her PhD training at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jintae Bae (MA, PhD Student at NYU, Sociology 2023 Fall)
Jintae holds Master's Degree in sociology and has majored sociology and political science as an undergraduate at Korea university. His main sociological questions revolve around the themes of social solidarity and value conflicts. He is mainly interested in the potential of new data such as text data and network data in representing the structure and change of cultural and institutional landscapes. He's a recipient of Overseas PhD Scholarship from Korean Foundation for Advance Studies. Currently he is continuing his PhD training at NYU.
Jintae holds Master's Degree in sociology and has majored sociology and political science as an undergraduate at Korea university. His main sociological questions revolve around the themes of social solidarity and value conflicts. He is mainly interested in the potential of new data such as text data and network data in representing the structure and change of cultural and institutional landscapes. He's a recipient of Overseas PhD Scholarship from Korean Foundation for Advance Studies. Currently he is continuing his PhD training at NYU.
Byungyeon Yun (MA, PhD Candidate at University of Minnesota, Ed Psych 2024 Fall )
Byungyeon's research interests include social network analysis, computational social science, and history of medicine. Combining theoretical and methodological tools from social network analysis and history, his current project compares two pandemics, the third plague pandemic in 1900-1904 and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020-2021. His project explores how two pandemics shaped society in political and social context. Currently he is continuing his PhD training at University of Minnesota.
Byungyeon's research interests include social network analysis, computational social science, and history of medicine. Combining theoretical and methodological tools from social network analysis and history, his current project compares two pandemics, the third plague pandemic in 1900-1904 and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020-2021. His project explores how two pandemics shaped society in political and social context. Currently he is continuing his PhD training at University of Minnesota.