I am a social demographer studying family, gender, and inequality across various stages of the life course. My research often adopts a cross-national comparative perspective, with a regional focus on South Korea and other East Asian societies. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Deputy Director of the Institute on Aging at Korea University. Previously, I served on the faculty at New York University Shanghai and Ewha Womans University. I received my PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. 

I am currently pursuing three lines of research:

• The first line of research investigates marital formation, dissolution, and repartnering, with a particular focus on how these family processes both shape and are shaped by social inequality. 

• The second line of research examines gender dynamics within marriage and family, with particular attention to the implications of couples' relative socioeconomic status on their individual and marital lives. 

• The third research line explores how children's life chances and experiences are gendered and stratified across families and societies. 

My work has been published in Social Science Research, Social Science & Medicine, Demographic Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, among other outlets.