Name: Bae, Eun-Kyung

Institution: Department of Sociology & Program in Gender Studies, Seoul National University

Brief Self Introduction

Dr. Bae is an assistant professor of Sociology, her main research areas are gender & sexuality, feminist theory and social history of Korea. She is Director of the Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National University and participates in the editorial board in <Gender & Society> and <Issues in Feminism>. She is insightfully outspoken about the current gender issues.

She hopes that academics, scholars, researchers and students in East Asia will cooperate towards new research development, especially, in gender studies through the GCOE program. The program will bring academics and students who have common research interest together through constructive and progressive communications.

Main Publications

• Gender, Love, Society (co-author), Wings of Knowledge, 2006
• Methods of Gender Studies and Social Analysis (co-author), Dahae Publishing, 2006
• ‘”Gender” as a Category for Social Analysis : Focusing of the History of the Concept’, Issues in Feminism, vol.4(1) 2004
• ‘The Birth Control and Lives of Korean women in the 1950s’, Han-Kook Hak Bo (Journal of Korean Studies), vol. 116, 2004
• New Lectures on Gender Studies (co-author), Dongnyok Publishing, 1999

Introduction of Overseas Partners’ Institution

The Department of Sociology, Seoul National University was established in 1946, in order to provide important sociological insight for constructing Korean civil society. It is proud of the largest and most established Sociology Graduate Program in Korea. Currently, the Department has fifteen faculty members with an adjunct professor. Each year, 15 students enroll to Masters’ program and; 6 students start PhD program. It is renowned for the researches on social theory, industry/labor, social problem and policy and structural changes. Recently, researches on human rights issues are developing. The Department as well as the University offers internationally competitive scholarships. Each year, two or three foreign students enroll to our program, mainly from Japan and China. The most of modules are taught in Korean but a couple of modules each semester are taught in English, these modules are compulsory. For further information, please visit
http://sociology.snu.ac.kr/index_eng.php

In 1966, the Institute for Social Development and Policy Research (ISDPR) was launched as a research center for population and industrialization and other social issues. The ISDPR was named as ‘Future Research Center’ for Seoul National University in 2007. Its project “Social Development and Social Quality: a Comprehensive Perspective on Korea, East Asia and OECD Countries” was granted a nine-year research fund by Korean Research Foundation. Twice a year, It publishes an academic journal, ‘Development and Society’ in English. The journal provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for new research and ideas on social, cultural, political as well as economic development.

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