Date/Time: January 23 (Fri), 2026 13:30-17:30
Venue: GL Room (Room 201), Building 140, GSIS, SNU
Program:
Opening (13:30-14:30)
- Opening Address: Baek Yung Kim (Director of Northeast Asia Center, Seoul National University Asia Center; Professor at the Department of Sociology, SNU)
- Welcoming Address: Jihwan Park (Director of Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University; Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, SNU)
Session 1 (13:40-15:20): Youth Mobility in Korea and Changes in Local Community
- Chair: Hong-Ah Lee (Dept of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University)
- Presenter:
(13:40-14:00) Eeseon Kim (Dept of Sociology; Kangwon National University)
"Reconstruction of Changes in Regional Mobility through Population Movement Networks from 1985 to 2020"
(14:00-14:20) Kyunglim Kim (National Youth Policy Institute, Rep of Korea)
"Rural Depopulation and Youth Mobility: The Intersecting Structure of Youth Village-Building Projects"
(14:20-14:40) Banseok Kim (Dept of Sociology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo)
"Friction in Local Youth Activities and Mobility: The Spatio-Temporal Arrangements Surrounding the Movements and Activities of Youth in Namhae County, South Gyeongsang Province"
(14:40-15:20) Kyungsuk Park (Dept of Sociology, SNU), Eunsu Seo (Dept of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University)
"Panel Discussion"
Session 2 (15:40-17:20): Japanese Youth Culture and Spatial Selectivity
- Chair: Hyang-Ah Lee (Dept of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University)
- Presenter:
(15:40-16:00) Yeji Kim (Seoul National University Asia Center)
"Mobility as 'Pilgrimage' of Korean Young 'Otaku': Focusing on the Case of Japanese Anime 'Sacred Site Pilgrimage'"
(16:00-16:20) Fuminori Tamura (Seoul National University Asia Center)
"Changes in Mobility as Reflected in Japanese National Land Planning"
(16:20-16:40) Jihwan Park (Graduate School of International Studies, SNU)
"Gendered Mechanisms in Regional Choice for Employment among Japanese Rural Youth: The Case of Kagoshima High School Graduates"
(16:40-17:20) Jurak Kim (Korea Institute of Local Administration); Hosang Lee (Dept of Japanese Regional Culture, Incheon National University)
"Panel Discussion"
