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The Impact of Working from Home on Parents' Work-Family Balance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea
코로나 19 시기 재택근무가 남녀 취업자의 일-가족 양립에 미친 영향2022전지원, 차승은, 은기수인용: 전지원, 차승은, 은기수. (2022). 코로나 19 시기 재택근무가 남녀 취업자의 일-가족 양립에 미친 영향. 한국인구학, 45(3), 27-50, 10.31693/KJPS.2022.09.45.3.2DOI: 10.31693/KJPS.2022.09.45.3.2언어: 한국어 발행기관: 한국인구학회발행일: 2022. 09.초록 본 연구는 코로나 19로 인한 사회적 거리두기 기간 동안 재택근무가 어린 자녀를 둔 남성과 여성의 일-가족 양립에 어떠한 영향을 미쳤는가를 분석했다. 이를 위해 2021년 전국 만 0-12세 자녀를 둔 남녀를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시, 코로나 19 상황에서의 아동돌봄에 대한 자세한 데이터를 활용하였다. 설문 응답자 중 기혼 맞벌이 가구 응답자만 추출하여, 재택근무 여부, 재택근무 기간, 주돌봄자 여부, 자녀의 연령, 가구 경제 상황 등 여러 변수를 고려하여 재택근무가 일-가족 갈등 완화에 기여했는지, 그리고 재택근무의 일-가족 양립에 대한 긍정적 혹은 부정적 효과가 성별과 관계없이 동일하게 나타났는지 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 남성의 경우 재택근무와 일-가족 양립 간 긍정적인 관계가 발견되었으며, 여성의 경우에는 통계적으로 유의한 결과가 나타나지 않았다. 이는 향후 재택근무 등 유연한 근무형태가 일-가족 양립에 기여하기 위해서는 근무형태 자체뿐 아니라 돌봄 부담과 기대에 대한 적절한 배분이 병행되어야 함을 시사한다.논문 보러가기https://www.dbpia.co.kr/pdf/pdfView.do?nodeId=NODE11144357
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Korean Family Law Revisited: Focusing on the Revisions Related to Gender Equality
2023Hyuna Moon, Minja Kim Choe Citation: Hyuna Moon, Minja Kim Choe. (2023). Korean Family Law Revisited: Focusing on the Revisions Related to Gender Equality. Korea Journal, 63(4): 111-136. doi:10.25024/kj.2023.63.4.111Language: EnglishJournal: Korea Journal Publication Date: 2023. 06. 19Keywords: family law, hojuje, son-preference, low fertility, gender equality Abstract: This article aims to analyze significant changes in family law and their relationship to gender equality, which has emerged as one of several factors contributing to low fertility in Korea from a socio-legal perspective. Fertility changes in Korea can be categorized into two distinct periods. The first period, spanning from 1960 to the late-1990s, saw a rapid decline in the fertility rate from approximately six children per woman to slightly below the replacement level. The second period began around the early 2000s, and is characterized by a further decline in the fertility rate to an extremely low level that continues until recent times. During the first phase of low fertility, several revisions were made to the family law, including major revisions related to hojuje, along with subsequent changes. This paper analyzes the implications of some of these family law revisions, specifically, examining provisions related to son preference and gender discrimination in inheritance and the parent-child relationship in family law and their impact on fertility. Through this analysis, this study aims to establish a connection between the revisions of family law and changes in fertility, ultimately shedding light on the complex relationship between law and society in modern Korea.
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A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care
A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care Author : Alexa Carson PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
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Book translation | Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics
[Book translation] Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics
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Book Publication | The Road Towards Respect and Healing: One Hour, One Person's Tale
[Book Publication] The Road Towards Respect and Healing: One Hour, One Person's Tale 
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The Dilemma of Work-Family Balance and Telecommuting during COVID: A Focus on Gender Differences
Jiweon Jun, Seung-eun Cha, Ki-soo Eun, "The Dilemma of Work-Family Balance and Telecommuting during COVID: A Focus on Gender Differences". 2022 Joint Academic Conference hosted by The Korean Home Economics Association, "Connecting, Balancing and Restoring Family"
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Report | "Lives of Women Migrants in Korea during COVID-19" Published
As of March 2022, COVID-19 seems to unfold into a quite different direction from the initial shock and damages in the early stages of COVID-19 in 2020. This is a compilation of previous brief series which analyzed the difficulties and crisis conditions experienced by migrants, especially women migrants since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020.
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COVID-19 and Korea's Childcare Survey
This survey contains data related to COVID-19 and Korea's childcare survey. Due to social distancing during the heist of COVID-19, the burden of care for each family has increased significantly. In particular, due to the closure of care institutions such as kindergartens and schools, parents with young children suffered a lot. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 1200 married men and women with children 0-12 years old to find about the impact of COVID-19 on care at home. In March 2021, we conducted a second survey that expanded the number of samples to 2016 parents nationwide and added questions about their experiences over the past year. Through this survey, we collected a wide range of information on whether to work from home, experience in caring for children during telecommuting, and who mainly cared for their children and were in charge of housework during social distancing due to COVID-19. Based on the results of these surveys, we are conducting research to see how gender inequality in care, which existed in Korean society, intensifies in emergency situations such as COVID-19, how government policies such as family care leave and emergency care were accepted and what are the problems. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion plans to provide practical solutions based on such empirical data to continue to seek alternatives to what measures should be taken if situations such as COVID-19 continue in the future.
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How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries
2021 Man-Yee Kan, Muzhi Zhou, Daniela Veronica Negraia, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Ekaterina Hertog, Shohel Yoda & Jiweon JunTitle: How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-021-09345-3)Language: EnglishPublishing Date: July 2021(Accepted)Abstract: This study is the first to document how older adults in East Asian and Western societies spend their time, across four key dimensions of daily life, by respondent's gender and education level. To do this, we undertook a pioneering effort and harmonized cross-sectional time-use data from East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with data from Multinational Time Use Study (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, United States; to which we refer as Western countries), collected between 2000 and 2015.  Findings from bivariate and multivariate models suggest that the daily time budgets of East Asian older adults are different from their counterparts in most Western countries. Specifically, gender gaps in domestic work, leisure, and sleep time were larger in East Asian contexts, than in Western countries. Gender gaps in paid work were larger in China compared to all other regions. Higher levels were associated with less paid work, more leisure, and less sleep time in East Asian countries, while in Western countries they were associated with more paid work, less domestic work, and less sleep. Interestingly, Italy and Spain, two Southern European welfare regimes, shared more similarities with East Asian countries than with other Western countries. We Interpret and discuss the implications of these findings for population aging research and welfare policies. 
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Impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea: survey findings and policy implications
2022 Ito Peng, Jiweon JunTitle: Impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea: survey findings and policy implicationsLanguage: English Source: International Journal of Care and CaringPublishing Institution: Policy PressPublishing Date: January 2022Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of care and care work, and exposed pre-existing inequalities. Our survey of the impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea reveals that mothers were much more likely to bear the increased burden of childcare than fathers, which, in turn, had direct and negative impacts on their well-being. We discuss how South Korea’s dualised labour market, gender-biased employment practice, social norms about childcare, and instrumental approach to family and care policies may have contributed to the persistent unequal distribution of unpaid care work within households and gender inequality.Read Report (Click)
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The Impact of Working from Home on Parents' Work-Family Balance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea
코로나 19 시기 재택근무가 남녀 취업자의 일-가족 양립에 미친 영향2022전지원, 차승은, 은기수인용: 전지원, 차승은, 은기수. (2022). 코로나 19 시기 재택근무가 남녀 취업자의 일-가족 양립에 미친 영향. 한국인구학, 45(3), 27-50, 10.31693/KJPS.2022.09.45.3.2DOI: 10.31693/KJPS.2022.09.45.3.2언어: 한국어 발행기관: 한국인구학회발행일: 2022. 09.초록 본 연구는 코로나 19로 인한 사회적 거리두기 기간 동안 재택근무가 어린 자녀를 둔 남성과 여성의 일-가족 양립에 어떠한 영향을 미쳤는가를 분석했다. 이를 위해 2021년 전국 만 0-12세 자녀를 둔 남녀를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시, 코로나 19 상황에서의 아동돌봄에 대한 자세한 데이터를 활용하였다. 설문 응답자 중 기혼 맞벌이 가구 응답자만 추출하여, 재택근무 여부, 재택근무 기간, 주돌봄자 여부, 자녀의 연령, 가구 경제 상황 등 여러 변수를 고려하여 재택근무가 일-가족 갈등 완화에 기여했는지, 그리고 재택근무의 일-가족 양립에 대한 긍정적 혹은 부정적 효과가 성별과 관계없이 동일하게 나타났는지 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 남성의 경우 재택근무와 일-가족 양립 간 긍정적인 관계가 발견되었으며, 여성의 경우에는 통계적으로 유의한 결과가 나타나지 않았다. 이는 향후 재택근무 등 유연한 근무형태가 일-가족 양립에 기여하기 위해서는 근무형태 자체뿐 아니라 돌봄 부담과 기대에 대한 적절한 배분이 병행되어야 함을 시사한다.논문 보러가기https://www.dbpia.co.kr/pdf/pdfView.do?nodeId=NODE11144357
Journal Articles ㆍ
Korean Family Law Revisited: Focusing on the Revisions Related to Gender Equality
2023Hyuna Moon, Minja Kim Choe Citation: Hyuna Moon, Minja Kim Choe. (2023). Korean Family Law Revisited: Focusing on the Revisions Related to Gender Equality. Korea Journal, 63(4): 111-136. doi:10.25024/kj.2023.63.4.111Language: EnglishJournal: Korea Journal Publication Date: 2023. 06. 19Keywords: family law, hojuje, son-preference, low fertility, gender equality Abstract: This article aims to analyze significant changes in family law and their relationship to gender equality, which has emerged as one of several factors contributing to low fertility in Korea from a socio-legal perspective. Fertility changes in Korea can be categorized into two distinct periods. The first period, spanning from 1960 to the late-1990s, saw a rapid decline in the fertility rate from approximately six children per woman to slightly below the replacement level. The second period began around the early 2000s, and is characterized by a further decline in the fertility rate to an extremely low level that continues until recent times. During the first phase of low fertility, several revisions were made to the family law, including major revisions related to hojuje, along with subsequent changes. This paper analyzes the implications of some of these family law revisions, specifically, examining provisions related to son preference and gender discrimination in inheritance and the parent-child relationship in family law and their impact on fertility. Through this analysis, this study aims to establish a connection between the revisions of family law and changes in fertility, ultimately shedding light on the complex relationship between law and society in modern Korea.
Journal Articles ㆍ
A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care
A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care Author : Alexa Carson PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Journal Articles ㆍ
Book translation | Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics
[Book translation] Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics
Books ㆍ
Book Publication | The Road Towards Respect and Healing: One Hour, One Person's Tale
[Book Publication] The Road Towards Respect and Healing: One Hour, One Person's Tale 
Books ㆍ
The Dilemma of Work-Family Balance and Telecommuting during COVID: A Focus on Gender Differences
Jiweon Jun, Seung-eun Cha, Ki-soo Eun, "The Dilemma of Work-Family Balance and Telecommuting during COVID: A Focus on Gender Differences". 2022 Joint Academic Conference hosted by The Korean Home Economics Association, "Connecting, Balancing and Restoring Family"
Presentations ㆍ
Report | "Lives of Women Migrants in Korea during COVID-19" Published
As of March 2022, COVID-19 seems to unfold into a quite different direction from the initial shock and damages in the early stages of COVID-19 in 2020. This is a compilation of previous brief series which analyzed the difficulties and crisis conditions experienced by migrants, especially women migrants since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020.
Reports ㆍ
COVID-19 and Korea's Childcare Survey
This survey contains data related to COVID-19 and Korea's childcare survey. Due to social distancing during the heist of COVID-19, the burden of care for each family has increased significantly. In particular, due to the closure of care institutions such as kindergartens and schools, parents with young children suffered a lot. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 1200 married men and women with children 0-12 years old to find about the impact of COVID-19 on care at home. In March 2021, we conducted a second survey that expanded the number of samples to 2016 parents nationwide and added questions about their experiences over the past year. Through this survey, we collected a wide range of information on whether to work from home, experience in caring for children during telecommuting, and who mainly cared for their children and were in charge of housework during social distancing due to COVID-19. Based on the results of these surveys, we are conducting research to see how gender inequality in care, which existed in Korean society, intensifies in emergency situations such as COVID-19, how government policies such as family care leave and emergency care were accepted and what are the problems. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion plans to provide practical solutions based on such empirical data to continue to seek alternatives to what measures should be taken if situations such as COVID-19 continue in the future.
Reports ㆍ
How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries
2021 Man-Yee Kan, Muzhi Zhou, Daniela Veronica Negraia, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Ekaterina Hertog, Shohel Yoda & Jiweon JunTitle: How do Older Adults Spend Their Time? Gender Gaps and Educational Gradients in Time Use in East Asian and Western Countries (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-021-09345-3)Language: EnglishPublishing Date: July 2021(Accepted)Abstract: This study is the first to document how older adults in East Asian and Western societies spend their time, across four key dimensions of daily life, by respondent's gender and education level. To do this, we undertook a pioneering effort and harmonized cross-sectional time-use data from East Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with data from Multinational Time Use Study (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom, United States; to which we refer as Western countries), collected between 2000 and 2015.  Findings from bivariate and multivariate models suggest that the daily time budgets of East Asian older adults are different from their counterparts in most Western countries. Specifically, gender gaps in domestic work, leisure, and sleep time were larger in East Asian contexts, than in Western countries. Gender gaps in paid work were larger in China compared to all other regions. Higher levels were associated with less paid work, more leisure, and less sleep time in East Asian countries, while in Western countries they were associated with more paid work, less domestic work, and less sleep. Interestingly, Italy and Spain, two Southern European welfare regimes, shared more similarities with East Asian countries than with other Western countries. We Interpret and discuss the implications of these findings for population aging research and welfare policies. 
Journal Articles ㆍ
Impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea: survey findings and policy implications
2022 Ito Peng, Jiweon JunTitle: Impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea: survey findings and policy implicationsLanguage: English Source: International Journal of Care and CaringPublishing Institution: Policy PressPublishing Date: January 2022Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of care and care work, and exposed pre-existing inequalities. Our survey of the impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea reveals that mothers were much more likely to bear the increased burden of childcare than fathers, which, in turn, had direct and negative impacts on their well-being. We discuss how South Korea’s dualised labour market, gender-biased employment practice, social norms about childcare, and instrumental approach to family and care policies may have contributed to the persistent unequal distribution of unpaid care work within households and gender inequality.Read Report (Click)
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