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Jeongwoo Koo

Sungkyunkwan University · Social Sciences

About the Lab

Professor Jeongwoo Koo's research lab specializes in critical studies of human rights, public opinion, and media discourse in East Asia, with a particular focus on South Korea. The lab employs advanced computational methods—such as topic modeling (e.g., LDA and Pseudo-Document-based Topic Models) and survey-based empirical analysis—to examine the evolution of national and global perceptions on human rights, development cooperation (ODA), and state responses to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Research directions include the historical emergence of civil society and public spheres in pre-modern Korea, the role of media and digital discourse in shaping human rights awareness, and the institutionalization of human rights indicators. The lab integrates quantitative social science with critical theory, emphasizing comparative and longitudinal analysis of governance, rights, and societal change.

human rightsmedia discoursetopic modelingdevelopment cooperationpublic opinion

Research Overview

Papers
75
Total Citations
323
Papers (5y)
17
Primary Field
Social Sciences

Research Output Trend

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Publications per year (5y)
17total
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Citations per year (5y)
51total
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Selected Papers

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Article|67 citations·2017
Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Jeong‐Woo Koo
SJR Q4Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
2
Article|18 citations·2007
세계사회와 인권:국가인권기구의 설립, 1978~2004
구정우

한계 및 함의1. 연구의 요약과 한계

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Article|17 citations·2022
Global perceptions of South Korea's COVID-19 policy responses: Topic modeling with tweets
Jeong‐Woo Koo
SJR Q1Journal of Human RightsOA

This article focuses on South Korea as a case, analyzes a collection of 87,487 tweets referencing both COVID-19 and South Korea during the period of the pandemic, and examines global users’ understandings and/or assessments of South Korean responses to the health crisis. This article uses Pseudo-document-based Topic Model (PTM) as an advanced machine learning technique for classifying short texts into viable topics or themes. In the PTM results, human rights-related topics received much less att

General Social SciencesSocial Sciences
4
Article|15 citations·2017
언론을 통해 본 한국의 ODA: 토픽 모델링을 활용한 신문기사 분석, 1993~2016
구정우, 조성권

본 논문은 1993년부터 2016년의 기간 동안 한국 주요 신문들의 ODA 관련 보도가 어떻게 변화해 왔는지를 탐색한다. 8,407건의 신문기사들의 주제가 어떻게 변화해 왔는지를 확률 토픽모형인잠재 디리클레 할당(LDA)을 통해 보여준다. 분석 대상이 된 일간지는 조선일보, 중앙일보, 한겨레신문, 경향신문, 매일경제신문, 한국경제신문, 총 여섯 개로 진보와 보수 이념, 경제 분야의 주요 언론사를 모두 포함하였다. 연구주제는 크게 두 가지이다. 첫째, ODA 기사의 주제는 시기별로 어떤차이가 있는가? 둘째, ODA 신문 보도의 주제가 신문사의 성격 및 이념적 정향에 따라 어떻게 달라지는가? 분석 결과 한국 언론은 대체로 수출 및 기업 진출, EDCF 차관, 아세안 경제협력, 새마을 운동 등 한국의 발전경험과 국익에 초점을 맞추어 보도를 한 것으로 나타났다. 북한의 개발원조에 대한 보도 비중도 높았다. OECD DAC, UN 등과 관련되는 글로벌 규범에 대한 관심은 특정 시기를 제외하곤

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Article|11 citations·2007
The Origins of the Public Sphere and Civil Society
Jeong‐Woo Koo
SJR Q1Social Science History

This article explores an East Asian parallel to the “structural transformation” of the European public sphere and civil society by studying private academies and Confucian literati petitions in Chosŏn Korea from 1506 to 1800. During this period, the Confucian literati emerged as the new public and challenged royal authority, engaging in a broad range of public activities through the academies and petitions. Voluntaristic and nongovernmental connections of private academies reveal aspects of a na

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
6
Article|11 citations·2012
Measuring National Human Rights: A Reflection on Korean Experiences
Jeong‐Woo Koo, Suk-Ki Kong, Chinsung Chung
SJR Q3Human Rights Quarterly

This article proposes a research strategy to construct national human rights indicators and indices and uses this strategy for the assessment of human rights observance in the Republic of Korea during the period 1990 to 2007. To ensure reliability, the proposed indicators are derived from the Concluding Observations issued by the committees of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The anal

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
7
Article|10 citations·2017
The construction of human rights actorhood: Findings from the Korean General Social Survey
Jeong‐Woo Koo
SJR Q1Journal of Human Rights

This article investigates the sources of human rights “actorhood”—the extent to which people understand, support and implement human rights—by examining a novel human rights survey that was embedded in the 2011 Korean General Social Survey. My research uses ordinary-least-squares regression analyses to explore the factors that lead to individual differences in awareness and engagement. I employ four broad theoretical frameworks to explain the determinants of human rights orientations: realism, c

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
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Article|10 citations·2022
Political Embeddedness or World Cultural Pressure? Explaining Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China, 2006–20201
Dae‐Wook Kim, Jeong‐Woo Koo
SJR Q1Sociological ForumOA

How do organizations respond to institutional complexity arising out of both domestic and global forces? We focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting in China and empirically test the effects of both domestic institutional connections and world cultural linkage. We analyze the adoption of CSR reports compiled by 3,757 listed firms in China from 2006 to 2020 via a discrete‐time event history framework. We seek to explain the adoption of two different forms of CSR reports: those exp

Strategy and ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
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Article|9 citations·2015
Who Thinks and Behaves According to Human Rights?: Evidence from the Korean National Human Rights Survey*
Jeong‐Woo Koo, Byeong-Eun Cheong, Francisco O. Ramírez
SJR Q2Korea Observer - Institute of Korean Studies

The sociology of human rights has focused on the worldwide diffu-sion of human rights and analyzed the factors associated with this global social change and its impacts on nation-states. Yet, the way a world of human rights affects individuals has largely remained understudied. In an effort to fill in this gap, this article analyzes a comprehensive dataset compiled from a unique national human rights survey conducted in South Korea in 2011. We first differentiate the underlying structure of indi

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
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Article|8 citations·2018
공적개발원조(ODA)에 대한 국민태도 결정요인
구정우, 정진원, 손누리

본 연구는 ODA 증액에 대한 국민의 지지수준을 살펴보고 이에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 탐색한다. 2011년 한국종합사회조사(KGSS)를 주요 분석자료, 2016년 ‘ODA에 관한 국민인식조사’를 보조자료로 활용하였다. 2011년 자료에 대한 순서형 프로빗(ordered-probit) 분석 결과, 응답자의 사회인구학 및 사회경제적 요인, 복지에 대한 태도, 한국 정치에 대한 전망 및 인권인식 등이 ODA증액에 대한 개인의 태도에 중요한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 2011년 조사와 2016년 조사에서 공통적으로 포함된 문항들을 대상으로 한 제한된 범위의 순서형 프로빗 분석에서는 사회경제적 지위 변수가 중요한 결정요인으로 나타났다. 한국종합사회조사 분석 결과, 국민정체성과 국제 규범(global norm)으로써 인권에 대한 인식 정도로 나타난 세계시민성이 동시에 ODA 증액에 대한 지지태도에 유의미한 영향력을 행사하는 요인임을 확인하였다. 또한 자선적 목적의 기부에 적극적인 개인이

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Article|8 citations·2015
글로벌 사회공헌에서 공유가치 창출로: 국제개발 민관협력 혁신모델의 조건
구정우, 김율리, 김대욱

본 논문은 국제개발 민관협력의 모델 및 방향을 “공유가치창출(CSV)”과 연계하여 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다. 사회공헌 및 자선을 넘어 소외계층을 대상으로 한 경제적․사회적 가치 창출을 목표로 하는 CSV의 원리를 적용함으로써, 개도국의 빈곤타파와 개발에 기여할 수 있는 새로운 민관협력 모델의 구축이 가능하다고 주장한다. 이를 위해 첫째, CSV 민관협력 모델의 원칙을 1) 기업의 핵심역량 활용, 2) 새로운 가치 창출, 3) 국가협력전략(CPS)과의 조응성, 4) 다양한 이해관계자 역량 활용, 네 가지로 제시하고 정당화한다. 둘째, 선진공여국 민관협력의 역사와 추이를 미국의 CSR형과 유럽의 기금형으로 나누어 살펴본다. 셋째, 제안된 CSV 민관협력 모델에 근거하여 국내의 유․무상 민관협력사업의 현황과 문제점을 짚어본다. 넷째, CSV 민관협력 원칙이 비교적 충실히 반영된 국내외 사례를 소개하면서 새로운 민관협력 모델이 개발현장에서 이미 구현되고 있으며, 확산시킬 수 있다는 점을

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Article|7 citations·2022
Do NGO Restrictions Limit Terrorism? Smear Campaigns or Counterterrorism Tools
Jeong‐Woo Koo, Amanda Murdie
SJR Q1Journal of Global Security Studies

Abstract Do initiatives to limit nongovernmental organization (NGO) activities work to limit terrorist attacks? Despite regime rhetoric, we argue that NGO restrictions and repression can heighten grievances and limit nonviolent options for citizens to express dissent, broadening support for terrorists and increasing terrorist incidents. Using novel data on NGO restrictions, we fail to find evidence that legal restrictions on NGOs reduce the number of terrorist attacks. Once we account for the un

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
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Article|7 citations·2019
Polarized embrace: South Korean media coverage of human rights, 1990–2016
Jeong‐Woo Koo, Jaesung Choi
SJR Q1Journal of Human Rights

Past studies of human rights discourse have centralized civil and political rights over other types of rights, and have thus yielded a biased understanding of how human rights have evolved. This scholarship has also neglected the role of the political slant of reporting agencies in framing topics and issues covering human rights. This study offers new theoretical and analytical solutions to such limits by analyzing a newly compiled data corpus comprising 101,689 South Korean newspaper articles—b

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
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Article|7 citations·2024
The hatred of all against all? Evidence from online community platforms in South Korea
Jeong‐Woo Koo, Chan S. Suh, Jin Won Chung, Kyung-Ah Sohn, Kyungsik Han
SJR Q1PLoS ONEOA

BACKGROUND: Over several years of recent efforts to make sense and detect online hate speech, we still know relatively little about how hateful expressions enter online platforms and whether there are patterns and features characterizing the corpus of hateful speech. OBJECTIVE: In this research, we introduce a new conceptual framework suitable for better capturing the overall scope and dynamics of the current forms of online hateful speech. METHODS: We adopt several Python-based crawlers to coll

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
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Article|4 citations·2011
Origins of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea: global and domestic causes
Jeong‐Woo Koo

Since the 1990s, the human rights movement has become an integral part of South Korea’s civil society, and its success has been so remarkable that the U.N. Higher Commissioner for Human Rights praised the Republic of Korea, saying that it has an “excellent reputation in the international human rights system” (Arbour 2008: 2). Though lacking long-standing historical roots in human rights movements in comparison with countries in the West, Korea saw the rise and development of the human righ

HistoryArts and Humanities

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