Examines how proximity to livestock barns affects residential land values in rural areas

Analyzes spatial external diseconomies at a fine-grained, parcel-level scale

Shows that the price effects of livestock facilities vary by land-use and special-purpose zones

Highlights the importance of distance-based land-use regulation for improving rural living environments

Addresses limits of existing land-use management systems in responding to the mixed-use and spatial complexity of rural areas

Develops operational directions for Rural Specialized Districts under the newly enacted rural spatial restructuring framework

Identifies spatial and institutional conditions for district designation and management

Highlights policy implications for more resident-centered and sustainable rural spatial governance

Examines rural township centers as key settlement spaces facing population decline and land-use conflicts

Analyzes how mixed residential and productive land uses shape challenges to rural livability and governance

Proposes a spatial restructuring approach linking village protection and rural production zones

Highlights policy implications for place-based and flexible rural land-use management

As a Principal Investigator, led the project with the assistance of two fellow graduate students

Received a research grant of 8,000,000 won ($8,000) to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on education programs in childcare centers in Seoul

Surveyed 235 childcare centers in Seoul

Was awarded the first prize among the 10 selected final research projects

Examines how urban localities are constructed through overlapping politics of distinction and encounter in the Gaya cultural historic district of Kimhae

Analyzes how state-led cultural projects reposition Gaya as an alternative historical origin, displacing the dominant Shilla-centered narrative

Shows how top-down heritage-making processes replace one center with another, reproducing marginalization rather than dismantling it

Highlights how multicultural spaces associated with migrant workers are excluded from official representations of local identity

Critically reflects on how selective interpretations of the past produce exclusive forms of locality under the banner of cultural diversity

Led the project with the assistance of two graduate students

Surveyed 67% of childcare centers in Gumcheon-gu in Seoul 

Investigated the post COVID condition of support systems for children in vulnerability 

Won the outstanding paper award

Engaged with historical urban policy legacies and their connection to contemporary educational inequality

Examined how spatially inherited conditions shape patterns of school funding and institutional outcomes

Situated public education within longer trajectories of neighborhood disinvestment and governance

Pointed to the persistence of inequality despite successive reform efforts

Engaged with debates on education and urban development

Considered how prevailing economic frameworks shape urban policy thinking

Placed education within broader discussions of development and social well-being

Contributed to ongoing theoretical conversations on cities and inequality

Examined how public childcare services are shaped by institutional and administrative divides

Framed fragmentation as a product of differing governance arrangements rather than service volume

Noted uneven practices and coordination across care settings

Pointed to structural barriers to integration within divided care systems

Examined disparities in access to early childhood services in public housing neighborhoods

Situated childcare availability within broader neighborhood and institutional contexts

Compared resource conditions across neighborhoods with similar socioeconomic profiles

Raised concerns about structural limits to opportunity in housing-based communities

Due to confidentiality concerns, please refer to Kim, J., Shon, H., Lee, H., & Yeo, H. (2024). The Impact of Livestock Barns on Rural Land Prices: The Case Study of Buyeo, Korea. Journal of Korea Planning Association, 59(2), 30–41, for a publicly available study addressing a closely related research question. 

Mapped regional differences in access to childcare services within a metropolitan context

Highlighted spatial variation in childcare provision across local areas

Related patterns of accessibility to socioeconomic and demographic conditions

Raised questions about equity in public childcare provision

Examined educational inequality during the COVID-19 period

Focused on community-based childcare centers and local cooperation

Considered interactions among families, schools, and care institutions under non-face-to-face conditions

Reflected on challenges in sustaining community collaboration beyond crisis responses

Examined educational inequality highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic

Focused on the role of community-based children’s care and learning environments

Considered challenges faced by local institutions under non-face-to-face conditions

Situated community children’s centers within broader discussions of care, labor, and educational infrastructure