Kim Won-Sub is a professor of Sociology at Korea University in South Korea. He has taught at Bielefeld University in Germany and Kyung-Sang National University in South Korea. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina in the US.
He studied sociology at Korea University and Bremen University, and received his PhD from Bielefeld University (Institutionalisation of a new welfare state in East Asia? A case study on South Korea). Since then, his research and teaching have focused on the fields of new welfare states in East Asia, pension politics, and comparative social policy. He has published articles in journals such as Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Government and Opposition, International Journal of Social Quality, Policy and Society, and Asian Politics & Policy.
During his visit, Kim intends to critically review East Asian welfare state research by leveraging the theoretical and methodological innovations offered by Oxford.
