As part of the South Korea Democracy Storytelling project run by the East Asia Institute, a research team led by Woo Chang Kang, an assistant professor at Korea University, held a closed online meeting on “Democracy and the Quality of Elections” on June 21. Under the large theme of South Korea’s Democratic Resilience and funded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), this project is composed of four research teams that will each publish issue briefings in August based on roundtables and online meetings held in June and July.

 

Program

14:00-14:05

Opening Remarks

Woo Chang Kang

Assistant professor, Korea University

14:05-14:25

 [Presentation] Thoughts on the Quality of Elections in Democracy Research

Presentation(20 mins)

Youngho Cho

Associate Professor, Sogang University

14:25-15:55

Discussion(90 mins)

All Participants

15:55-16:00

Closing Remarks

Woo Chang Kang

Assistant professor, Korea University

 

Participant Information (In alphabetical order)

 

Presenter

Youngho Cho Associate professor, Sogang University

 

Participants

Won Chang Kang Assistant professor, Korea University
Nam Kyu Kim Associate Professor, Korea University
Sook Jong Lee Professor, Sungkyunkwan University and Senior Fellow, EAI
Sunkyoung Park Assistant Professor, Incheon National University
Inbok Rhee Assistant professor, the KDI School of Public Policy and Management

 

Program Manager

Junghye Suh Research Associate at East Asia Institute (EAI)