■ Academic Articles
2024
"Keeping Up with the Kims: Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession," World Politics, 76(3), 417-456 (with Edward Goldring). https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2024.a933068
"How Autocracies Disrupt Unsanctioned Information Flows: The Role of State Power and Social Capital in North Korea," Problems of Post-Communism, 71(2), 177-191 (with Steven Denney). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2023.2180038
한국인의 남북통일방식에 대한 의식 결정요인 분석: 컨조인트 분석 조사를 중심으로, 국가전략, 30(1), 137-163 (with Steven Denney and Christopher Green). https://doi.org/10.35390/sejong.30.1.202402.006
2023
"Strategies of Political Control under Kim Jong Un: Understanding the Changing Mix of Containment, Repression, Co-optation, and Coercive Distribution," Asian Survey 63 (4), pp. 557–583 (with Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2023.1826437
"Public Support for Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of North Koreans in the Republic of Korea," International Migration Review (with Steven Denney and Christopher Green).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231203927
2022
"Welfare chauvinism among co-ethnics: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in South Korea," International Migration 60 (5), pp. 74-90 (with Steven Denney). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12937
"The limits of ethnic capital: impacts of social desirability on Korean views of co-ethnic immigration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48 (7), pp. 1669-1689 (with Steven Denney and Christopher Green). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1797477.
"Common-Pool Resource Depletion and Dictatorship: North Korean Coastal Fishing in the Age of Marketization," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 55 (1), pp. 183-204 (with Andrei Lankov and Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2022.55.1.183.
2021
"북한의 '국가경제발전 5개년(2016~20) 전략' 평가: 수립배경, 달성목표 및 실패요인 분석을 중심으로," Journal of North Korean Studies 7 (1), 101-127쪽 (with Han Kibum).
"Embedded and Autonomous Markets in North Korea's Fishing Industry: Resource Scarcity, Monitoring Costs, and Evolving Institutions," Journal of East Asian Studies 21 (1), pp. 53-74 (with Andrei Lankov and Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.33.
"City profile: Is Pyongyang a post-socialist city?," Cities 108 (with Pavel Em). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102950.
2020
"The North Korean Workers in Russia: Problematizing the "Forced Labor" Discourse," Asian Perspective 44 (1), pp. 31-53 (with Andrei Lankov and Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2020.0001.
2019
"북한의 대미 사회-정치 인식 변화 1960-1991년의 『조선중앙년감』을 중심으로," 『세계역사와 문화연구』 제53집, 157-178쪽.
"Purging ‘Factionalist’ Opposition to Kim Il Sung: The First Party Conference of the Korean Worker’s Party in 1958," European Journal of Korean Studies 18 (2), pp. 105-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33526/EJKS.20191802.105.
"Capitalism from below with North Korean characteristics: The state, capitalist class formation, and foreign investment in comparative perspective," Asian Perspective 43 (3), pp. 533-555 (with Andrei Lankov and Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2019.0018.
2017
"Making money in the state: North Korea's pseudo-state enterprises in the early 2000s," Journal of East Asian Studies 17 (1), pp. 51-67 (with Andrei Lankov, Ho-yeol Yoo, Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2016.30
"North Korea's new capitalists and their workers: Business practice and labor relations," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 50 (3), pp. 157-167 (with Andrei Lankov, Ho-yeol Yoo, Jiyoung Kim). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2017.06.001
■ Chapters in Edited Volumes
2024
"Common Pool Resource Management and Problems of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities," Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea, Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003372035-8
2021
"From Periphery to Centre: A History of North Korean Marketization," Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands, pp. 313–332, Amsterdam University Press (with Christopher Green). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048539260-016
2020
"The structural transformation of the North Korean economic planning system," Handbook of Contemporary North Korea, pp. 77–96, Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429440762-5