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.
Jintae Bae (Master’s student)
Jintae is currently a graduate student in sociology at Korea University and has majored sociology and political science 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.
Byungyeon Yun (Master’s student)
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.