Joon Nak Choi

Joon Nak CHOI (JC) holds academic appointments as Advisor to the MSc in Business Analytics and Adjunct Assistant Professor at HKUST Business School, and as Faculty Associate at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at HKUST; he has also held visiting professorships at Stanford University and NYU Shanghai. He has worked in the private sector as a management consultant and an entrepreneur, having founded data science startups Zectr and Learnovate in Hong Kong. His work has been cited in the MIT Technology Review, the South China Morning Post, Sina.com, and the United Nations; his editorials have been published in some of the most widely read newspapers in Asia, including the South China Morning Post and the Maeil Kyungjae Daily.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Asian Regional Integration, World Cities, Automation and Machine Learning, Business Strategy and Consulting

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. Stanford University, Sociology
• M.A. Stanford Univeristy, Sociology
• A.B. Brown University, Economics, International Relations and Urban Studies

Books

• Shin, G. W. & Choi, J. N. 2015. Global Talent: Towards a New Model of Engaging Skilled Foreigners in Korea. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Review: Reiko Ogawa. 2018. Journal of Asian and African Studies 53: 1272-1275.
• Review: Keumjae Park. 2016. International Migration Review. Fall 2016.
• Review: Hilary J. Holbrow. 2016. Work and Occupations 43: 112-114.

Refereed Journal Publications (Chronological, alphabetical)

• Choi, J. N. and Hong, J. Y. 2020. Social networks as a political resource: Revisiting Korean democratic transition. Journal of East Asian Studies, 20: 75-98.

• Choi, J. N. 2019. From miracle to mirage: The making and unmaking of the Korean middle class, 1960-2015 (book review). The American Journal of Sociology, 125, September 2019.

• Shin, G. W., Choi, J. & Moon, R. 2019. Skilled migrants as human and social capital in Korea. Asian Survey, 59: 673-692.

• Choi, J. N., Kang, M. and Shin, G. W. 2014. Democratic transition and intra-party politics: The distribution of key party positions in democratizing South Korea. The Journal of Korean Studies, 19: 7-36.

Edited Volumes

Choi, J. N., Lee, Y. S. & Shin, G. W. 2018. Strategic, Policy and Social Innovation for a Post-Industrial Korea: Beyond the Miracle. Routledge.

Book Chapters

• Choi, J. N. Introduction. 2018. In Choi, J. N., Lee, Y. S. & Shin, G. W. (Ed.) Strategic, Policy and Social Innovations for a Post-Industrial Korea: Beyond the Miracle. Routledge.

• Choi, J. N. & Eesley, C. 2018. Brain drain, circulation and linkage: Sequence analysis of Korean nationals graduating from Stanford. In Choi, J. N., Lee, Y. S. & Shin, G. W. (Ed.) Strategic, Policy and Social Innovations for a Post-Industrial Korea: Beyond the Miracle. Routledge.

• Shin, G. W. & Choi, J. N. 2016. From brain drain to brain linkage: Korean students abroad as transnational bridges. In Oh, Y. C., Shin, G. W. & Moon, R. (Ed.) Internationalizing Higher Education in Korea: Challenges and Opportunities in Comparative Perspective. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press.

• Shin, G. W. & Choi, J. N. 2012. Economic globalization and expatriate labor in Korea. In Bahk, B & Shin, G. W. (Ed.) South Korea and the Global Economy in Transition: Selected Working Papers: 123-146. Stanford, CA: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Reynolds, W. N., Salter, W. J., Farber R. M., Corley, C., Dowling, C.P., Beeman W. O., Smith-Lovin, L., & Choi, J, N. 2013. Sociolect-based community detection. Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics 2013 Conference.