Jeong Eun Mee received a Ph.D. in Social Science at Seoul National University (SNU). She served as a senior researcher and HK research professor at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, SNU. She is now a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU). Also, she is serving as a standing member of the National Unification Advisory Council (NUAC) and as a policy advisor at the Ministry of Unification. Her major research areas are North Korea’s social changes, people’s awareness of unification, and social integration. She is currently studying the life-world of North Korean people and the middle class in North Korea. Dr. Jeong’s major publications include North Korea's Social Policy in the Kim Jong-un Era: Welfare and Control (2021), North Korea's Informatization and Changes in People's Lives (2021), North Korea’s Social Changes (2021), Variables and Routes of Changes in North Korea (2019), and Unification and North Korean Policy with the Cooperation of the Public (2019) (all in Korean).