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Joon, Yoosoon and Yoon-Jae Whang canoeing around Don Andrews' cottage at Vermont, US in July 2000.
Joon with Chi-Young Choi and Yoosoon Chang at Rice University in January 2001 during Chi-Young's job market campus visit.
Joon with his friends at the Econometrics Society Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand in July 2001.
Joon with Don Andrews and Yoon-Jae Whang during Don's visit to Korea in July 2003.
The third International Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (SETA) at Seoul in May 2008.
Joon with Jianqing Fan at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto, in April 2010. These photos are kindly provided by Dacheng Xiu, who was a PhD student at the time.
Joon with Zack Miller, Peter Phillips, and Yoosoon Chang at the 2013 Advances in Econometrics Conference in honor of Peter Phillips in Dalas.
Joon with Qiying Wang in front of the Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington in 2013.
In the past ten years, Joon and Yoosoon have served on the board of the Navotas Charity Foundation, a nonprofit charity that helps underprivileged students in the Navotas area, a slum near Manila, Philippines. This photo was taken during the 2013 Annual General Meeting of Navotas Charity Foundation.
Joon at the 2014 Annual Summer Meeting of Navotas Charity Foundation.
On a beautiful weekend, Joon and Yoosoon would love to go hiking with colleagues and graduate students in the picturesque national/state parks near Bloomington, Indiana. This photo was taken when Joon, Yoooson, and two former graduate students Bo Hu (first left) and Berg Cui (first right) reached the top of a hill when hiking in Brown County State Park on a crisp autumn day in 2014.
On a 2014 summer night in Seoul, Joon and Yoosoon invited Ye Lu, their PhD student at Indiana University, and Bibo Jiang, their former PhD Student at Rice University, to a Korean BBQ restaurant during their research visit.
Joon with Yongok Choi, Zack Miller, Yoosoon Chang, Hilde Bjørnland, Cynthia Wu, Robert Vigfusson, and Drago Bergholt in Rio de Janeiro, during the International Conference on the Economics of Oil in March 2018.
Joon was officiating his former PhD student Yongok Choi's lovely wedding in Seoul on December 23, 2018.
Joon and Yoosoon invited their former PhD student Minsoo Jeong (Texas A&M) and current IU students, Naoya Nagasaka, Doyeon Pyun, and Sangmyung Ha, to their home for dinner on December 2021.
Joon with Yoon-Jae Whang, Enrique Sentana, and Yoosoon Chang at the Seoul Intercontinental Hotel in 2022, when Enrique Sentana travelled to assess Korean economists' bid for the 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society.
Memory about Joon Y. Park
Memory about Joon Y. Park
Joon taught an introductory probability and statistics course for the first-year MA students at Seoul Nation University in the spring of 1998. He entered the classroom with a mug of coffee in one hand and introduced various concepts. He talked about measure-theoretic probability and the basics of statistical inference. His lecture was quite succinct and to the point. It gradually revealed one concept to another, in a natural flow, yet allowing for zero compromises on the necessary rigor of the material. He explained extremely complex concepts using various real-life analogies. His lectures were not merely about theorem-proofs. They were about stories. Why this definition of measurability? Why this definition of conditional expectations? What’s the meaning of population, sample, and distributions? What is the main point of statistical inference? What do we want from all this apparatus after all? Joon showed us how various deep concepts work together in a big picture. He showed us a world; quite a new one for me then.
As a student, I entered his class knowing nothing about anything. Soon I became enthralled by his lectures. I developed a desire to stay in this new world he showed us, forever. In this world, what looked hostile and menacing at first are reduced to things that are manageable and comfortable, like small, warm, smooth pebbles you pick from a beach: solid yet comfortable in your hand. However, I did not believe then that my chances to enter academia were very high. It was just a dream. I did not think such a thing was possible for a mediocre student that was me.
Joon was my MA thesis advisor at Seoul National University. He taught me many things about doing research. He opened the way for me to be trained by Peter and Don. Now more than 25 years have passed since. I think I have some experiences in academia, good, bad, and often, confusing. However, the example of scholarship he showed me as a teacher and researcher still guides me. He planted into me a small, yet enduring desire; to produce a good paper, to produce it like a skilled craftsman. Given the high standards he showed me, I feel far behind. It is clear to me that I can never avoid remaining a student. With a teacher like Joon, however, it is good to be a student.
--- Kevin Song, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
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