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Understanding global market through multimodal data-based social research
Understanding global market through multimodal data-based social research
June 2024 ~ June 2025
Principal Investigator: Meeyoung Cha (MPI-SP), Jihee Kim (KAIST)
Role: Co-investigator
Total Budget: 100,000,000 KRW
Funding from Samsung Research Data Intelligence
Using machine to detect Mongolian Ger
with satellite imagery
Using machine to detect Mongolian Ger
with satellite imagery
April 2024 ~ (present)
(To be written)
Collaborators: Park Sungwon, Lee Sumin, and Lee Minjun (KAIST)
ASEAN-Korea solidarity and digital cooperation
ASEAN-Korea solidarity and digital cooperation
Sep 2022 ~ Dec 2022
The Yun Seok-yeol administration proposed ‘building a regional cooperation network between Korea and ASEAN that prospers together’ as one of the 120 national tasks. Korea-ASEAN relations have been steadily expanding, and ASEAN countries are emerging as Korea's second-largest trading partners after China. Development cooperation is one of the major policies which can realize solidarity and cooperation with the ASEAN region by sharing Korea's experience of economic development. In this context, this project aims to suggest the direction for Korea's development cooperation with ASEAN and to seek ways to build Korea-ASEAN solidarity. Working with prof. Park Kyung Ryul and Ahn Donghyun, our task is to suggest the direction for the digital cooperation section of this project.
Collaborators: Park Kyung Ryul and Ahn Donghyun (KAIST)
Role: Research assistant
Funding from Global Korea Forum (GKF)
Uneven climate change adaptation and the materiality of waste in urban slums of Jakarta
Uneven climate change adaptation and the materiality of waste in urban slums of Jakarta
(To be written)
Jan 2020 ~ June 2024
Supervisor: Miles Kenney-Lazar and David Taylor (NUS)
Collaborators: Nurrokhmah Rizqihandari, Rudi Ramdhan, and Kayla Putri Naura (UI)
Role: Principal investigator
Total Budget: 200,000 SGD
Funding from National University of Singapore
Learning machine to predict economic development from daytime satellite imagery
Learning machine to predict economic development from daytime satellite imagery
Jan 2019 ~ April 2024
Over the past decade, easier access to high-resolution satellite images and the development of image recognition technologies have opened the way for researchers to measure important features of economic development with improved accuracy at finer scales. Welfare gains from utilizing such measures are potentially immense: accurate information on economic conditions at small geographical scales can substantially benefit policy decisions regarding resource allocations and enable researchers to evaluate policy outcomes. This is especially true for developing countries that heavily rely on small samples of household survey data which are conducted only once every four to five years. Lack of accurate economic data can easily hamper efforts to develop their economies and deprive the opportunity to strengthen societal and political capital necessary for stabilization and growth. Our project aims to develop a novel methodology for collecting granular level measures of economic development by combining satellite imagery and machine learning techniques.
Collaborators: Donghyun Ahn, Sungwon Han, Sungwon Park, Susang Lee, Jihee Kim (KAIST), Hyunjoo Yang (SU), Sangyoon Park (HKU), and Meeyoung Cha (KAIST & IBS).
Funding from Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
Climate change adaptation, coping, and vulnerability of riverside slum households in Phnom Penh
Climate change adaptation, coping, and vulnerability of riverside slum households in Phnom Penh
Jan 2017 ~ Feb 2019
The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), which covers Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, is considered one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Increasing flood risks in the LMB would have impacts on Phnom Penh and its slums, as Phnom Penh is located in the alluvial plain and is easily inundated. It is believed that climate change combined with deforestation, massive urbanization, and lake infilling has contributed to the increased potential of floods in Phnom Penh. These impacts are more severe in poor urban settlements as they are often located marginally, near the riverside. This M.A. project aimed to explore (1) how the riverside slum households of Phnom Penh cope with flood vulnerability and (2) how the short-term coping of the households related to long-term adaptation and development. The project was supported by Graduate Research Grant for Overseas Area Studies (2,100$) and Brain Korea 21 Plus Program Scholarship (4,300$).
Supervisor: Edo Andriesse (SNU).
Role: Principal investigator
Total Budget: 6,800,000 KRW
Funding from Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities & Students
Adapting to climate change in coastal livelihoods in Ghana, Tanzania, Thailand and the Philippines
Adapting to climate change in coastal livelihoods in Ghana, Tanzania, Thailand and the Philippines
May 2017 ~ April 2019
Despite the intra-governmental efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change, much remains to be done to ensure that coastal communities worldwide will not experience more extreme vulnerabilities and fall back into poverty. Also, political trends of nationalism and inward-looking policies in the developed world are worrying from the perspectives of development assistance and global humanitarian efforts to support disadvantaged groups in society. The project aimed to investigate how coastal communities in four developing countries adapt to climate change challenges and how Korean and foreign aid agencies can improve their programs to provide solutions in coastal areas. My role in this project was to conduct fieldwork in Tanzania. The project was funded by National Research Foundation of Korea.
Principal Investigator: Edo Andriesse (SNU).
Collaborators: Edo Andriesse (SNU), Victor Owusu (UEW), Kristian Saguin (UPD), Austin Ablo (UG), Chaturong Kongkaew, Jawanit Kittitornkool (PSU), and Paul Onyango, and Jerry Mang'ena (UDSM).
Role: Co-investigator
Total Budget: 40,000,000 KRW
Funding from National Research Foundation of Korea
Development of ‘Human Geography of Asia’ Online Course
Sep 2017 ~ Feb 2018
Asia is a huge and perhaps the most dynamic part of the world. Many countries have witnessed a profound socio-economic transformation. While poverty levels have been greatly reduced and the middle class has become a strong and vibrant part of many societies there are also persistent and new challenges to be discussed and analyzed such as aging, food security, the marginalization of the countryside, and problems related to urban sprawl. Many Korean students have a clear understanding of the geography of Korea, but do not know much about other parts of Asia. This project was to produce online course materials titled 'Human Geography of Asia' for SNU undergraduate students. My role was as a research assistant and guest lecturer on climate change adaptation in the urban slums of Phnom Penh. The project was funded by SNU R&DB.
Principal Investigator: Edo Andriesse (SNU).
Role: Co-investigator
Total Budget: 15,000,000 KRW
Funding from Seoul National University
Documentation for urban social change process of Guryong-maeul through investigation of living conditions of residents
Documentation for urban social change process of Guryong-maeul through investigation of living conditions of residents
November 2016 – December 2017
Principal Investigator: prof. Kim Yong Chang (SNU)
Role: Surveyor
Funding from Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation
Water resource management of Amu Darya River and the Aral Sea crisis
Water resource management of Amu Darya River and the Aral Sea crisis
Amu Darya river's rapid water level reduction is one of the major causes of the Aral Sea Crisis. The reduction is substantially connected to the competitive water resource management in Central Asian countries. The project explored the environmental issues aroused by competitive water usage among the neighboring countries and the politics of national water management. The project was supported by Undergraduate Research Grant for Overseas Area Studies 2015 (3,500$).
Collaborators: Junbeom Bahk and Jaeseob Shin (SNU).
Funding from University for Creative Korea (CK)
The transition of urban structure in Vladivostok and Irkutsk, Russia
The transition of urban structure in Vladivostok and Irkutsk, Russia
Vladivostok and Irkutsk are two East-Siberian cities of geopolitical significance as they interconnect Euro-Russia, Asia-Russia, and the Pacific Ocean. The geopolitical importance has been spatially inscribed into the urban structures of the two cities. The project investigated the historical transition of their urban structure embedded in three political regimes: the Russian Imperial regime, the Soviet Union Communist regime, and the modern Capitalism regime since Glasnost and Perestroika. The project was supported by Undergraduate Research Grant for Overseas Area Studies 2014 (4,500$).
Collaborators: Junbeom Bahk, Jihak Sohn, and Sangho Park (SNU).
Funding from University for Creative Korea (CK)
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