Gil-Sung Park (Hangul: 박길성, born on May 9, 1957 in Myungju, Gangwon-do, Korea) is Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology at Korea University. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Korea and is a Vice President of the Korean Sociological Association.
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Dean Park obtained his B.A. and M.A. degree from Korea University, followed by a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. Professor Park does research and teaching on a variety of issues in economic sociology, information sociology, comparative sociology, developmental sociology, and sociology of world society. He has been a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee of Aging and Future Society, and Chair of the Korean Comparative Sociological Association. He was also a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Park was a former director of the Institute of Social Research at Korea University and an adjunct professor at Utah State University.[1]
Professor Park serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals including Global Policy[2] and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.[3] He also guest edited a special issue of the latter journal.[4] Park was previously Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Sociology, a flagship journal of the Korean Sociological Association.