Kyong-Dong Kim

Kyong-Dong Kim, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. He earned his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1962 and his PhD in Sociology from Cornell University in 1972. He has taught at Seoul Women's University, North Carolina State University, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Duke University. He was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1986-87 and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Asian...See more

Kyong-Dong Kim, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. He earned his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1962 and his PhD in Sociology from Cornell University in 1972. He has taught at Seoul Women's University, North Carolina State University, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Duke University. He was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1986-87 and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute of Duke University. He was awarded the Grand Prize for Scholarly Achievements by the Chung-Ang Ilbo Daily and the 5th Free Enterprise Book Prize by the Korea Federation of Industrialists, and honored in Who's Who in Asia and the Pacific Nations (1999). He has published and edited numerous books and articles in English as well as in Korean including "Rethinking development and man and society in Korea's economic growth." See less