Jong-sung You is Director of the Korea Inequality Research Lab and Visiting Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Yonsei University. He has studied the relationship between inequality, corruption and trust, and social policy to address inequality and poverty including basic income and pension reform. His book includes Democracy, Inequality and Corruption: Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He received Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University at age 50, and taught at UC San Diego, Australian National University, and Gachon University. He was imprisoned three times for his struggle for democracy when he was young.

I am professor of international relations at Yonsei University Mirae Campus, South Korea. My research interests involve the political economy of Europe and East Asia. I have explored various topics in industrial relations and welfare reform in Western Europe. Currently I am working on tax policy in East Asia. I explore key features of the tax models in Japan and Korea in comparison with other OECD cases. My work has appeared in Economic and Industrial Democracy, International Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Public Administration, Journal of East Asian Studies, Social Science Japan Journal, etc.

I am professor of international relations at Yonsei University Mirae Campus, South Korea. My research interests involve the political economy of Europe and East Asia. I have explored various topics in industrial relations and welfare reform in Western Europe. Currently I am working on tax policy in East Asia. I explore key features of the tax models in Japan and Korea in comparison with other OECD cases. My work has appeared in Economic and Industrial Democracy, International Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Public Administration, Journal of East Asian Studies, Social Science Japan Journal, etc.

Eunyoung Ha earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. She served as an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an affiliated faculty member in the Asian Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento. Her research interests include trade and financial liberalization, political and economic inequality, social welfare policy, and political polarization. Her book, Globalization and Polarization in Developing Countries: Cross-country Evidence and Case Studies of Korea and Poland, is in the process of publication.

Dr. Sophia Seung-yoon Lee obtained her Dphil(PhD) in Social Policy from the University of Oxford in the UK with her thesis on a comparative study between East Asian welfare states and non-regular workers. She is a full professor of social policy at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. Her major research fields are East Asian welfare states and labour markets, precarious workers, and comparative research methodology. He has published about 60 articles and books, including "Institutional Legacy of State Corporatism in De-industrial Labour Markets (2016)", Precarious Workers in Korea (co-author, Humanaitas, 2017), and Here Comes the Basic Income (co-author, Social Criticism, 2018). She recently published her book [“Varieties of Precarity: Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State" (2023) Policy Press.] and was also the first Vice-Chairperson of the Youth Policy Coordination Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Cheol-Sung Lee is a Professor of Sociology at Sogang University and a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. His research interests include comparative welfare states and the politics of inequality. His recent research has focused on asset inequality, labor market dualization, and their implications for social policies. He has published articles in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, World Politics, and Comparative Political Studies, and authored a book titled When Solidarity Works: Labor–Civic Networks and Welfare States in the Market Reform Era (Cambridge University Press). Recently, he has been working at the intersection of ecology, crops, and development, publishing articles on how rice cultivation culture influences social psychological outcomes such as social comparison and happiness, as well as macro-socio-economic outcomes such as disease control and economic growth.