Urban Lives in an Age of Pandemic: Korean and Taiwanese Experiences


  • Date: December 10th, Friday, 2o21 11:30 – 18:00 / December 11th, Saturday, 2021 09:50 – 13:00 (KST)
  • Online via Webex

SNUAC Northeast Asia Center (NEAC; Director: Prof. Baek Yung Kim) is holding a joint workshop with the College of Social Science and Dept. of Sociology at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, on urban lives in pandemic times. The workshop will be an opportunity for us to compare Korean and Taiwanese experiences and share East Asian experiences of living in the pandemic era.

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfERpuZ8iETxvubv-eebo5aRsByuqBK2jRn0uKRqHHL2MhmYQ/viewform

– 12/10 (Fri)

11:30 ~ 13:00 KST
Opening Speech: Prof. Baek Yung Kim (Director, NEAC, SNUAC / Dept. of Sociology, SNU)
Lecture: Social Distance: The Longer the Shorter (Prof. Chen, Tzung-Wen)

14:30 ~ 16:00 KST
Korean People’s anti-China Sentiment and its Implications (Dr. Jeong Kyung Seo, NEAC, SNUAC)

16:30 ~ 18:00 KST
Korea’s COVID-19 Response and Comparative Evaluation (Dr. Jongseok Yoon, NEAC, SNUAC)

– 12/11 (Sat)

09:50 ~ 11:20 KST
Negotiating the Exposure and Networked Densities in Urban Taipei (Dr. Chen, Hung Ying)

11:30 ~ 13:00 KST
Pandemic Effect on the Long-term Change of Developmentalist Urban Regime in South Korea (Director, NEAC, SNUAC / Dept. of Sociology, SNU)

Closing Remarks (Prof. Chen, Tzung-Wen)