Sunwoo Lee

"Historically specific micro-power apparatuses forged within South Korea, operating through algorithms, regulatory frameworks, legal institutions, pedagogical regimes, archaic customs, and the vestigial status hierarchies left unresolved by compressed modernization, confine individual subjects to entities of 'bounded rationality.' This dynamic engenders idiosyncratic state behavior that inevitably renders the korean-macroeconomy 'aberrantly' distorted, ultimately constructing a structural space where orthodox models fail to apply directly. " - Sunwoo Lee

Sunwoo Lee is an interdisciplinary researcher in Business Administration and PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) at Kyungpook National University.

His work asks how numbers, disclosures, algorithms, and legal classifications organize visibility and accountability: across financial reporting standards, ESG valuation, fiscal policy, and platform-labor regulation. He pairs critical and Foucauldian readings of these instruments with labor law and financial accounting. 

The pairing is deliberate. Post-structuralist tools, liberal-individualist conclusions: if institutions govern conduct through classification, the question that follows is what remains of the individual once classified.

So, Lee should research the liberal individual's economic system through behavioral macroeconomics. Why behavioral econ? Micro-power making such numbers, disclosures, algorithms, and legal classifications make a person 'a bounded rational being'. That's why he has to conduct this interdisciplinary research pipeline.

(Now all the sole-authored papers are under peer review and revision at the journal indexed in SSCI and ESCI (SCOPUS). (Updated 2026.8.16))

and one of my papers is listed in NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (RePEc) 

• • Lee, Sunwoo, Calibrating the Visible: IFRS 18, IFRS 19, and the Governmentality of Disclosure Intensity. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6772738 

  • Lee, Sunwoo, Monetary Regimes and the ESG–Firm Value Relation: Evidence from Korean Listed Firms.  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6772998 

  • Lee, Sunwoo, Governing the Algorithm: Platform Labour and the State's Recapture of Governmentality under Korea's Proposed Basic Act on the Rights of Working Persons. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6773379 

  • Lee, Sunwoo, The Upward-Sloping Path of Fiscal Multipliers and Humped-Persistent Tail Effect: Evidence from a Behavioral New Keynesian Model of South Korea. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6773318 

  • Lee, Sunwoo, What Does a Cognitive Discount Factor Measure? Housing Illiquidity and the Governmental Production of Bounded Rationality in South Korea. https://ssrn.com/abstract=http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7322578 

  • Lee, Sunwoo, Platform Cooperativism and the Organisational Shadow of Protection: How Social Insurance and Governmentality Foreclose Worker Ownership. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7323198