Graduate Students
Haesol Kim ( BA+MA student)
Haesol is an undergraduate student studying Sociology and Political Science & International Relations 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.
Haesol is an undergraduate student studying Sociology and Political Science & International Relations 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.
Jeongbeen Lim (Master’s student)
Jeongbeen is a graduate student studying 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 is a graduate student studying 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 (Master’s student)
Soomin is currently a graduate student in Sociology at Korea University and has a bachelor's degree in Sociology and GLEAC(Global Leader for East Asian Century) 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.
Soomin is currently a graduate student in Sociology at Korea University and has a bachelor's degree in Sociology and GLEAC(Global Leader for East Asian Century) 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.
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
Jin-hyang Lee (Research Intern, Undergraduate)
Jin-hyang is an undergraduate student at the Department of Sociology at Korea University. Her second major is public governance and leadership. She is interested in human rights and social institutions. She hopes to live in a world where human rights are respected and aspire to provide better living conditions for the underprivileged. She wants to become a lawyer and work for the human rights of underrepresented minorities.
Jin-hyang is an undergraduate student at the Department of Sociology at Korea University. Her second major is public governance and leadership. She is interested in human rights and social institutions. She hopes to live in a world where human rights are respected and aspire to provide better living conditions for the underprivileged. She wants to become a lawyer and work for the human rights of underrepresented minorities.
Geonhui Cho (Research Intern, Undergraduate)
Geonhui is an undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology at Korea University. He is double majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at the same university. In an era where computers and data science penetrate deeply into everyday life, he considers it important for individuals to respond to these changes by exercising their sociological imagination, rather than simply accepting these changes.
Geonhui is an undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology at Korea University. He is double majoring in Computer Science and Engineering at the same university. In an era where computers and data science penetrate deeply into everyday life, he considers it important for individuals to respond to these changes by exercising their sociological imagination, rather than simply accepting these changes.
Alumni
Jintae Bae (MA, Digital Humanities Lecturer at Korea University)
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.
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.
Byungyeon Yun (MA, Data Scientist at Korea University Digital Center)
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.
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.