- Gil-Sung Park
Gil-Sung Park (
Hangul : 박길성, bornMay 9 ,1957 in Myungju,Gangwon-do ,Korea ) is a prominent Koreansociologist .Biography
Park took a Bachelor's and Master's degree from
Korea University , followed by a Ph.D. fromUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. In 1992, he started working at Korea University where he taughteconomic sociology , information sociology and sociology of world society, and was promoted to a fullprofessorship in 2000. He held numerous important positions including a member of Presidential Advisory Committee of Aging and Future Society and Chair of Korea Comparative Sociology Association. He was a visiting scholar at Center for International Affairs,Harvard University and was a visiting professor atWashington University in St. Louis . Now Park is a professor in Department of Sociology, Korea University and anadjunct professor ,Utah State University .Bibliography
*Park, Gil-Sung, Yong Suk Jang, and Hang-Young Lee (2007) “Global and Local Interplay: Korea’s Globalization Revisited.” "International Journal of Comparative Sociology" 48(4): 337-353.
*Gil-Sung Park and Tackmeon Lee (2007) "Understanding Theories in Economic Sociology". Seoul: Namam Publishing House.
*Gil-Sung Park (2003) "Restructuring of Korean Society: Forced Adjustments and Contentious Coordinations". Seoul: Korea University Press.ee also
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List of sociologists
*Economic sociology
*Yong Suk Jang
*List of University of Wisconsin-Madison people External links
* [http://www.korea.ac.kr/~gspark Park's official web site]
Persondata
NAME=Park Gil-Sung
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Korean sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH=May 9 ,1957
PLACE OF BIRTH=Myungju, Korea
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