Yul Sohn
Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University
Research Topics
Formal Convergence, Informal Divergence: Corporate Governance Change in East Asian Capitalism
Education and Academic Employment
| 1985 | B.A., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea |
| 1994 | M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago (Political Science), Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1994 – 1995 | Foreign Scholar, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
| 1996 | Visiting Fellow, Yokohama National University |
| 2001 – 2003 | Chair, Department of International Cooperation, Chung-Ang University |
| 2003 – 2006 | Director, Institute for International Studies, Chung-Ang University |
| 2009 – | Chair, Department of International Studies, Underwood International College, Yonsei University |
| 2005 – 2008 | Director, Korean International Studies Association |
| 2009 – | Director, Korean Political Science Association |
| 2001 | Secretary-General, Korean Association for Contemporary Studies |
| 2006 | Research Director, Korean Association for Contemporary Japanese Studies |
| 2005 – 2008 | Member, Presidential Commission on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative, Republic of Korea |
| 2006 – | Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University |
Research Fields of Interest
- Japanese and East Asian political economies – International political economy – East Asian regionalism
- Japanese foreign policy
Selected Publications
- “East Asia: Contested International Society” Journal of World Politics 30, 1 (forthcoming)
- (Co-authored with Professor Miyajima Hideaki), “Financial Crisis and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Japan” in Hong Yung Lee ed., Three Faces of East Asian Capitalism (Berkeley: University of California Institute of East Asian Studies Press, Forthcoming)
- “Whither the Japanese Model?: Evolutionary Changes and the Rise of Many Japans” Journal of International and Area Studies (June 2008)
- “Korea’s Japan Policy Under the New ROK Government,” Journal of East Asian Affairs (June 2008)
- “International Political Economy of Korea’s FTA,” Journal of World Politics (Fall 2007)
- “Technology, Institution, Path Dependence: A Comparative Study of Venture Nurturing Policy in Korea and Japan.” Korean Political Science Review 40, 3 (Autumn 2006). In Korean.
- Japanese Industrial Governance: Protectionism and the Licensing State (London: Routledge, 2005)
- “The Political Economy of Korea-Japan FTA,” Korea Focus 13, 2 (March 2005)
- “Japan’s Soft Power,” The Making of an Attractive Nation (Seoul: Dong-A 2005). In Korean
- “Translating ‘Economy’: Economy Concept in Modern Korea,” The Journal of World Politics 25, 2 (Fall/Winter 2004)
