Comparative Politics
  • Region : Asia/China
  • Sub-Field : Comparative Authoritarianism & Democratization, Interactions b/w Political Economy and State-Society Relation
International Relations
  • Region : Asia/China
  • Sub-Field : Interactions between Domestic and International Politics, Security and Economy, Public Diplomacy
Korean Reunification

Education

2009 Ph.D. UCLA
2003 M.Phil. City University of Hong Kong
2001 B.A. Yonsei University

Career

2019-현재 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea:
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & International Studies Chair, Underwood International College, Political Science & International Relations
Major Deputy Director, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies
2017-2018 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea:
Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Studies
2011-2016 Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea:
Assistant Professor, Academy of East Asian Studies
2014-2016 Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea:
Vice Director, Sungkyun Institute of China Studies
2009-2010 The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Postdoctoral Researcher, Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies

Publications

[ SSCI Journals ]
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2016. “Domestic Politics, Regional Integration, and Human Rights: Interactions among Myanmar, ASEAN, and EU.” Asia Europe Journal 14.4: 417-434.*
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2014. "Village Workers, Foreign Factories, and Village Politics in Coastal China: A Clientelist Approach." The China Quarterly 220 (December): 955-967.*
  • Paik, Wooyeal and Richard Baum. 2014. “Clientelism with Chinese Characteristics: The Political Economy of Local Patronage Networks in Post-Reform China.” Political Science Quarterly (Winter) 129.4: 675-702.*
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2014. “Land Developers, States, and Collusive Clientelism in Marketizing China.” The Pacific Focus 29.1 (April): 68-91.*
  • Paik, Wooyeal and Kihyun Lee. 2012. “I Want to Be Expropriated!: The Politics of Xiaochanquanfang Land Development in Suburban China.” Journal of Contemporary China 21.74 (March): 261-279*
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2012. “Economic Development and Mass Political Participation in China: Determinants of Provincial Petition (Xinfang) Activism 1994–2002.” International Political Science Review 33.1 (January): 98-119*
  • Paik, Wooyeal and Myungsik Ham. 2012. “From Autonomous Areas to Non-Autonomous Areas: The Politics of Korean Minority’s Migration in Contemporary China.” Modern China 38.1 (January): 110-133*
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2011. “Authoritarianism and Humanitarian Aid: Regime Stability and External Relief in China and Myanmar.” The Pacific Review 24.4 (September): 439–462.*
  • Paik, Wooyeal and Daniel A. Bell. 2004. “Citizenship and Physical Education in Ancient Greece and Ancient China.” The Review of Politics 66.1 (Winter): 7–34.
  • Hahm, Chaibong and Wooyeal Paik. 2003. “Legalistic Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia.” Journal of East Asian Studies 3.3 (September): 461–492.
[ Domestic Journals ]
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2015. “An Analysis on the Korean Public Diplomacy toward China [한국의 대중국 공공외교정책과 실행분석].” Korea and International Relations (한국과 국제정치) 31.3 : 115-142.
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2015. “Lack of Political Resources, the Economically Disadvantaged, and Weapons of the Weak: A Case of Rural Migrant Workers in China [정치적 자원 결여에 따른 경제적 약자의 대응: 중국 농민공의 사례].” Korean Political Science Review (한국정치학회보) 49.3 (June): 83-111.
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2015. “Which Democratic Institutions Constrain Human Rights Violations?: A Specified Cross-National Study.” East and West Studies (동서연구) 27.1: 135-168.
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2014. “Real Estate Development, Social Instability, and New Urbanization Policy in Contemporary China [현대 중국의 부동산 개발, 사회불안정, 신형도시화].” Korean Political Science Review (한국정치학회보) 48.4 (September): 27-48.
  • Paik, Wooyeal. 2013. “Petition Politics in Contemporary China: Political Participation, Contentious Politics, and Governance in an Authoritarian Regime [현대 중국의 탄원(信訪, Petition)정치: 권위주의정권의 정치참여, 쟁의정치, 그리고 거버넌스].” KoreanPolitical Science Review (한국정치학회보) 47.5 (December): 367-388.

Teaching Courses

1) Graduate School
  • Comparative Authoritarianism
  • Chinese Politics
  • Political Regime
2) Graduate School of Public Administration
  • Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
  • Southeast Asian Politics
3) Korean Unification
  • Chinese Politics
4) Undergraduate Studies
  • Comparative Politics (Introduction & Advanced Levels)
  • Chinese Politics, Politics of Things: Research Practice
  • Asian Politics: Research Practice