Seungjoo Lee Department of Political Science Chung-Ang University 221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-ku Seoul, South Korea 156-756 Tel: 82-2-820-5476 (office), 82-16-9757-0024 (mobile) Fax: 82-2-813-0650 Email: seungjoo@cau.ac.kr PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Current Position: March 2005 present Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Chung-Ang University Previous Positions: September 2002 February 2005 June 2001 November 2002 January 2001 May 2001 October 1991 August 1992 Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Yonsei University Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley Research Associate, Research Institute for National Unification, Ministry of Unification, South Korea EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.A. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science Yonsei University (South Korea). Political Science Yonsei University (South Korea). Political Science TEACHING FIELDS Undergraduate: The Political Economy of East Asia International Political Economy Japanese Politics Graduate: The Political Economy of East Asia 1
International Political Economy FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND GRANTS Yonsei University, Maeji Research Fund, May 2004 April 2006 National University of Singapore, Academic Research Grant, April 2004 March 2005 (with Yusaku Horiuchi) Yonsei University, International Investment Program Research Fund, September 2003 August 2004 (with Sang Young Rhyu) Yonsei University, Yonsei University Research Fund, July 2003 June 2004 The Sumitomo Foundation, Grant for Japan-related Research Project, April 2003 April 2004 National University of Singapore, Academic Research Grant, April 2002 April 2003 Yomiuri Shimbun [The Daily Yomiuri], Japan, Yomiuri Fellowship, June 2000 University of California, Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship, May 1998 Woon Kyung Foundation, Seoul, Korea, Woon Kyung Foundation Fellowship, January 1997 May 1999 PUBLICATIONS The Transformation of the Developmental State in the Age of Globalization: The Case of the IT Industry in Korea and Singapore, in Chua Beng Huat and Jang Sup Shin, eds., Global Challenges and Local Responses (London: Routledge, forthcoming) (with Kyaw Yin Hlaing). Singapore Bilateralism: Two-Track Strategy, in Vinod K. Aggarwal and Shujiro Urata, eds., Bilateral Trade Arrangements in the Asia-Pacific: Origins, Evolution, and Implications (London: Routledge, forthcoming). Transforming the Developmental State in Korea under Globalization: The Case of the IT Industry, in Gedeon M. Mudacumura, and M. Shamsul Haque, eds., Handbook of Development Policy Studies (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2004), pp. 509-522. Foreign Pressure and Institutional Stickiness: The Japanese Supercomputer Industry, Korean Political Science Review, vol. 37, no. 3 (September 2003), pp. 333-356 (in Korean). Korea-Japan Economic Relations in the Post Cold War Era, The Korean Journal of International Studies, vol. 43, no. 2 (July 2003), pp. 175-199 (with Sang Young Rhyu) (in Korean). Technological Change, U.S. Pressure and the Transformation of the Japanese Aircraft Industry, Asian Perspective, vol. 27, no. 2 (June 2003), pp. 141-173. Außenpolitik Südkoreas, in Jürgen Bellers, Thorsten Benner and Ines M. Gerke, eds., Handbuch der Außenpolitiken: von Afghanistan bis Zypern (München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2
2001), pp. 997-1006. Autonomy or International Cooperation?: The Japanese Space Industry Responds to U.S. Pressure, Business and Politics, vol. 2, no. 2 (2000), pp. 225-250. CONFERENCE PAPERS Regionalism and Redistribution in South Korea. Paper presented at the 3 rd International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, November 13-14, 2004, Tokyo, Japan (with Yusaku Horiuchi). Regionalism and Redistribution in South Korea. Paper presented at the 24 th Annual Meeting of Australasian Political Studies Association, September 29 October 1, 2004, University of Adelaide, Australia (with Yusaku Horiuchi). The Dynamics of Network Capitalism in Japan and Korea: Amakudari vs. Parachute Appointment. Paper presented at International Conference on Network Capitalism in East Asia, February 22, 2004, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. USA (with Sang Young Rhyu). Singapore Bilateralism: Two-Track Strategy. Paper presented at the Bilateral Trade Arrangements in the Asia-Pacific: Origins, Evolution, and Implications, December 5 6, 2003, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. USA. The Transformation of the Developmental State in the Age of Globalization: The Case of the IT Industry in Korea and Singapore. Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Challenges and Local Responses: A Comparison between Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea, October 10 11, 2003, National University of Singapore, Singapore (with Kyaw Yin Hlaing). Singapore Bilateralism: Two-Track Strategy. Paper presented at the International Conference on Bilateral Trade Arrangements in the Asia-Pacific: Origins, Evolution, and Implications, March 21 22, 2003, Berkeley, USA. Singapore Bilateralism: Toward a Hubbing Strategy. Paper presented at the 44 th Annual Convention of International Studies Association, February 25 March 1, 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA. Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of State-led Liberalization: Comparing the IT Industry in Japan and South Korea. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 24 27, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS Regionalism and Redistribution in South Korea. Policy and Governance Discussion Paper 04-05, Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University. U.S. Pressure May Give Japan IT Industry Boost, The Daily Yomiuri, July 1, 2000, p. D13. 3
INVITED LECTURES(does not include standard conference presentations) East Asian Model of Economic Development, presented at the International Conference entitled Repositioning Northeast Asia, sponsored by Yonsei Leadership Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, January 26, 2003. ARTICLES IN PROGRESS Policy Ideas, Development Strategies and Changes in Korea Japan Economic Relations (with Sang Young Rhyu). Uunder review. Regional Ties and Informal Networks as a Source of Labor Market Discrimination in South Korea: An Analysis of Job Displacement, 1997-1999 (with Chang Hui Kang). Uunder review. Democratization and Corruption: The Case of South Korea (with Dong Yoon Lee). Under review (in Korean). Regionalism and Redistribution in South Korea (with Yusaku Horiuchi). Under revision. The Political Dynamics of Informal Networks in South Korea: The Case of Parachute Appointment (with Sang Young Rhyu). Under revision. Universalism within Districts: Distributive Politics under the SNTV Electoral Rule in Japan (with Yusaku Horiuchi). Under revision. Ideas, Institutions, and the Transformation of the Developmental State: The Case of IT Industry in South Korea. Under revision. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS International research project on Global Challenges and Local Responses. Organized by Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore) and Jang Sup Shin (National University of Singapore). Funded by the National University of Singapore. Yonsei-Berkeley research project on Networks, Governance, and East Asian Capitalism. Organized by Hong Yung Lee (University of California at Berkeley), Sang Young Rhyu (Yonsei University), and Seungjoo Lee (Chung-Ang University). Funded by Yonsei University and University of California at Berkeley. REFEREE Asian Journal of Political Science Korean Political Science Review Korean Journal of International Studies OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Visiting Researcher, The Yomiuri Research Institute, Tokyo Japan, Summer 2000. 4
Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, June 1998 December 1998. 5