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Ki-Soo EUN

은기수
Director / Professor of Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies

Ki-Soo Eun is a Professor of Sociology and Demography at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include: low fertility and aging, family history, family values, transnational migration, care and care work, time use study and quantitative method. Prof. Eun has led the Comparative Asian Family Survey (CAFS) project together with Prof. Emiko Ochiai of Kyoto University in Japan, which conducted family surveys in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Qatar and Turkey. Since 2017, he has been engaged in an international project on the care economy (CWE-GAM project), representing the Korean team. He is in charge of the KOICA Gender and Development Program at GSIS as the Program Manager. Prof. Eun is also an expert on time use research with publications and articles on work-life balance, time poverty, study time, and sleep. He leads comparative studies on time use across countries. Prof. Eun currently serves as Vice President of the International Association for Time Use Research and is also the founder and current President of the Korean Association for Time Studies. He is President of the Population Association of Korea and the Korean Social History Association, as well as Vice President of the Korean Family Studies Association. He also serves as Vice Director at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. Prof. Eun is a member of the Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy (PCASPP) in Korea.