Myoung-Kyu Park is Director of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) and Director of the HK Peace and Humanities Research Group at Seoul National University (SNU). In addition to his work within these institutes, Professor Park serves as an active lecturing professor in the Department of Sociology, SNU. Professor Park received his Ph.D. in Sociology from SNU. He has broad expertise in historical, political, ethnic and religious sociology, focusing on inter-Korean relations, the sociology of nationalism, and culture and identity. Professor Park has several publications, including Sociology of Boundaries in Inter-Korean Relations (2012) and Nation, People and Citizen: Korean Political Subjectivities from the Conceptual History (2009). He is the co-author of North Korean Diaspora (2011) and the co-editor of EU and North Korea: Humanitarianism or Business (2010). Professor Park frequently features in the East Asian Survey and International Sociology journals.
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