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Participant Biographies

Woo Jung-Yeop

Woo Jung-Yeop

Research Fellow, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Dr. Woo is a Research Fellow and the Director of the Center for Security Policy at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at 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. His most recent publication is Korean Voters’ Decision: On the 2012 General Election (in Korean, co-edited with Park Chanwook and Kim Jiyoon). Dr. Woo received his B.A. in business administration from Seoul National University, an M.P.P. from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.