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Hyeong-ki Kwon, Visiting Scholar 2018-19

Hyeong-ki Kwon, currently a Visiting Scholar of Asian Studies at the University of Oregon, is a professor of Political Science at Seoul National University. His research interests are in changes of national economies in the course of globalization, including the U.S., Germany, Japan, Ireland, and Korea. His publications in comparative politics include Fairness and Division of Labor in Market Societies (2004) and articles in major journals including Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Theory and Society, Comparative European Politics, Contemporary Politics, and Economic and Industrial Democracy.

Recently, he has studied the evolution of Korean capitalism. Korea has rapidly industrialized and grown from one of poorest countries to an advanced country. Its economic development has prevalently accounted by so-called developmental state theory. However, since the Asian financial crisis of 1997, it has been liberalized. He studies to what extent its political economic system has changed and what makes its political economy distinctive—continuation of state capitalism—from a comparative perspective in globalization.

Welcome Professor Hyeong-ki Kwon!