Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Kyong-Dong Kim is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National Uni­ versity and Currently Board Chairman of the Korea Association for Information Society. He has taught at NC State, Duke, and L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes on Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He has published numerous books and articles internationally. Jonghoe Yang is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Insti­ tute of Social Sciences at Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea. His recent publications include "Confucianism, Institution­ al Change and Value Conflict in Korea" (Korean Social Science Jour­ nal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1999) and "Class Culture or Culture Class? Lifestyles and Cultural Tastes of the Korean Middle Class" (H. H. M. Hsiao, ed., East Asian Middle Classes in Comparative perspective, 1999) Hyun-Chin Lim is Professor of Sociology at Seoul National Uni­ versity. He is on the editorial board of Contemporary Sociology pub­ lished by American Sociological Association. He has widely writ­ ten about dependency, development, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America from comparative perspective. Among his authored books are Modern Korea and Dependency Theory, Dependent Development in Korea, and Korean Development in a Global Age. Pil-Dong Kim is Professor of Sociology at Chungnam National University. His research interests are social organization, historical sociology, and the sociology of science and knowledge policy in comparative perspectives. His most recent publications include "The Current State of Korean Knowledge Policy in Transition Peri­ od" in Economy and Society (2000). Seung-Wook Baek is Assistant Professor Chinese Studies at Hanshin University, Korea. He once was a visiting research associate of Fernand Braudel Center at State University of New York (Bing­ hamton). He recently published his article "Changing Trade Unions in China" in Journal ofContemporary Asia. He specializes in contemporary Chinese society. Yi-Jong Suh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Korea. He once was a research fellow at Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National Universi­ ty. He is recently interested in Information Sociology, the spirit of Korean entrepreneurs. Jean A. Garrison is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Boston University. For 2000-2001, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999). Dennis Hart is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University (Ohio). His most recent publications include From Tradi­ tion to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea (Jimoondang Publishing Company, 2000) and articles on nationalism in Korean education and gender issues in the Korean family, published respectively in Korean Studies and Han'guk kajong kwalli hakhoeji (Journal ofKorean Family Management). Milton Leitenberg has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, since 1989. He is author or editor of over 100 books and arti­ cles concerning international conflict and military industry, among them Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters (Praeger and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987). ...