I am a social demographer studying family, gender, and inequality across various stages of the life course. My research often takes 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 held positions at New York University Shanghai and Ewha Womans University. I earned my PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. 

I am currently pursuing three lines of work:

• The first line of research investigates issues related to marital formation, dissolution, and repartnering. 

• The second project focuses on gender dynamics in marriage and family, with a particular emphasis on the implications of couples' relative socioeconomic status on their individual and marital lives. 

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

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