Myoung-kyu Park is a professor of sociology at Seoul National University, Korea. He has previously been a President of the KSA (Korean Sociological Association, 2017), the Director of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS, 2006-2016) and Social Development Research Institute (2002-2004), Chairman of the History and Society Editorial Board (2002-2004), and President of the Korean Social History Association (2002-2004). He is working as the editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding. His research fields are: social history, sociology of nation and national identity, inter-Korean relations, conceptual history, and sociology of religion. He got a Ph.D. from Seoul National University. His career includes; being a visiting fellow at Harvard-Yenching Institute (1989-1990), a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine (1998-1999), a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2003-2004), and international scholar fellow at Humanities Center of Stanford University (2015).
He wrote several books and articles, including: Sociology of Borderline in Inter-Korean Relations, Seoul: Changbi Co. (in Korean, 2012); North Korean Diaspora (co-author work), Seoul: IPUS (in Korean, 2011); EU and North Korea: Humanitarianism or Business? (co-edited by Bernard Selliger and Sung-Jo Park), Germany: LIT (in English, 2010).