Participant Biographies

Woo Jung-Yeop

Woo Jung-Yeop

Research Fellow, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Leadership Transitions in the Two Koreas

Dr. Woo is a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to joining the Asan Institute, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute in the University of Southern California. He was also an associate analyst for Gallup Korea and the Korea Research Company. His areas of specialty include foreign military intervention in civil wars and the relationship between foreign policy-making and public opinion. He earned his B.A. in business administration from Seoul National University in 1995, an M.P.P. from Georgetown University in 2001, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009.