KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
and Center for Anthropocene Studies

Junsoo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST. At the same time, Junsoo is working as a researcher at the Center for Anthropocene Studies. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in sociology. He explored the various fields of "state-nature" relationships in the context of East Asia. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the 2022 summer expedition team in Antarctica (King Sejong Station). He is studying the social construction of the polar knowledge production process and the everyday life of a science station in Antarctica. From the perspective of social science, Junsoo engages in environmental governance and the polar region's formal and informal social, political, and cultural norms on an international-national-field scale.

Research projects / interests:

• Social construction of knowledge
• Polar Sociology
• Anthropology
• Environment

For publications visit: Junsoo's ResearchGate page

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Areas of interest:

• Polar Governance
• Geopolitics
• Human Geography
• Anthropology
• Cultural Studies
• Environment

Keywords: Sociology, Political Ecology, STS