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Dr. You received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in June 2006. His research focuses on Korean politics, comparative politics, political sociology, and comparative public policy. His doctoral thesis explored how income inequality affects corruption and how corruption and inequality erode social trust through large-N cross-national study and comparative case study of South Korea, relative to Taiwan and the Philippines. His article with S. Khagram entitled "A Comparative Study of Inequality and Corruption" was published in the American Sociological Review (February 2005). After joining IRPS in July 2006 as Assistant Professor, he will teach graduate courses on "Korean politics" and "public policy implementation and evaluation" and an undergraduate course on "corruption, inequality, and democracy." Before pursuing an academic career, he worked for democratization and social justice in South Korea. He was imprisoned for more than two years because of his active role in anti-dictatorship student movement under the military regimes, but later was recognized as a person of merit for democratization by a democratic government. He worked for Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice, an influential NGO in Korea, as Director of Policy Research and later as General Secretary. He holds a BA in social welfare from Seoul National University, and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Jong-Sung You