2018    “The Historical Context of Social Governance Experiments in East Asia: The Challenges of Risk Society,” Korea Journal vol. 58, no. 1 Spring.

2017    “Global Risks and Cosmopolitan Actors in East Asia: A Look at the Fukushima Disaster and Nuclear Power Plant,” Development and Society vol. 46 no. 2: 195-225.

2017   “Corporate Social Responsibility and Stockowner-Employee Partnership: An Empirical Analysis,” The Annals of Research Center for Economic and Business Networks vol.6, pp.43-61. Hokkaido University (co-cauthored with Young-Hee Shim and Sae-Seul Park).

2016    Typology and Characteristics of Social Governance in China: With a Focus on the Experiments of Social Governance in Beijing, Working Paper 2016-CR-22, Seoul Institute (Coauthored with Sang-Jin Han and Young-Do Park)

2016    “Dual Individualization in East Asia: Individualization in society and in the family” (coauthored with Young-Hee Shim), edited by Gilles Campagnolo, Liberalism and Chinese Economic Development, Taylor and Francis.

2016    “Introduction to the Special Section on Ulrich Beck,” Ulrich Beck in Asia, In Commemoration, Theory, Culture, and Society Vol. 33, no.7-8: 253-256.

2016    “Cosmopolitan Sociology and Confucian Worldview: Beck’s Theory in East Asia” (coauthored with Young-Hee Shim & Young-Do Park), Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 33, no.7-8: 281-290.

2015    “Second-modern Transformation in East Asia: An Active Dialogue with Ulrich Beck,” Socio Vol.6, 45-64.

2015    “The Influence of Ulrich Beck in East Asia,” Global Dialogue Vol.5, Issue 2, June 2015.

2015    “Emancipatory Catastrophism from an East Asian Perspective: The Feedback from the Dialogue Organizer,” Current Sociology, 63(1), January, 115-120.

2014    “Another Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Reconstruction of Neo-Confucian Conception of Tianxiaweigong in the Age of Global Risks,” Development and Society, Vol. 43 (2), 185-206.

2014    “Citizens’ Movement in South Korea and Reflexive Modernization” Antimo L. Farro and Henri Lustiger-Thaler (eds.), Reimagining Social Movements from Collectives to Individuals. Surrey: Ashgate, 143-158.

2014    “Exploration of a Research Program of Global Risks from the Perspective of East Asia,” Journal of Glocal Studies Vol.1(1), Seijo University Press, Tokyo, Japan, 21-41.

2014    “Commentary: Rethinking Modernity and Capitalism: Add Context and stir by Jan Nederveen Pieterse,” Sociopedia.isa.

2013    “Individualization and Community Networks in East Asia: How to Deal with Global Difference in Social Science Theories?” (coauthored with Young-Hee Shim), Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Sciences, edited by Michael Kuhn and Shujiro Yazawa, Sejo University: Center for Global Studies, 197-214.

2013  “A Universal but ‘Non-hegemonic Approach to Human Rights in International Politics: A Cosmopolitan Exploration for China,” (coauthored with Guimei Bai & Tang Lei), Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Sciences, edited by Michael Kuhn and Shujiro Yazawa, Sejo University: Center for Global Studies, 177-196.

2012    “Divided Nation, Unification and Transitional Justice: Why do we need a Communicative Approach?” (ed.), Divided Nations and Transitional Justice. Boulder: Paradigm, 1-15.

2012    “German Unification and Korean Dream: Six Days with Kim Dae-jung in Berlin” (ed.), Divided Nations and Transitional Justice. Boulder: Paradigm, 80-89.

2012    “Can Japan overcome the Ghost of the Past? A Communicative Approach,” Divided Nations and Transitional Justice. Boulder: Paradigm, 173-185.

2012    “Reflexive Modernization and the Future of East Asia,” Divided Nations and Transitional Justice. Boulder: Paradigm, 255-262. 

2011    “From Asian Value Debate to Cosmopolitanism: An Active Interpretation of the Political Thoughts of Kim Dae-jung,” Korea Journal, Autumn, 196-222.

2011    “Individual Freedom and Human Rights Community: A Sociological Intervention,” Development and Society 40(1), June, 17-43.

2011    “The Selectivity and Consequences of Chinese Crisis Management: Consolidated authoritarian Capitalism as a New Brand of Political Regime?” Ursula van Beek & Edmond W. Lipinski (eds.), Democracy under Stress: The Global Crisis and Beyond, Opladen-Berlin: Babara Budrich Publishers (coauthored with Lu Peng), 151-170.

2010    “Redefining Second Modernity for East Asia: A Critical Assessment,” British Journal of Sociology 61(3), 465-489 (coauthored with Young-Hee Shim).

2010    “Family-oriented Individualization and Second Modernity: An Analysis of Transnational Marriage in Korea,” Soziale Welt 61(3), 237-255 (coauthored with Young-Hee Shim).

2010    “Middle Class Grassroots Identity and Participation in Citizen Initiatives, China and South Korea” in Cheng Li (ed.) China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 264-287.

2010    “Confucianism and Human Rights: People-Centered Participatory Communitarian Human Rights and the Kwangju Democratic Self-Rule in 1980,” Wunsuk Chang & Leah Kalmanson (eds.), Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues: East Asia and Beyond, State University of New York Press, 121-144.

2010    “Internationalization of Social Science in South Korea: The Current Status and Challenge,” (with Kwang-Yeong Shin) in Michael Kuhn and Dorris Weidemann (eds.), Internationalization of the Social Sciences: Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and Eurasia, Transcript: Science Studies, 67-86.

2010    “Political Communication and the Quality of Democracy,” in Ursula J. Van Beek (ed.) Democracy under Scrutiny: Elites, Citizens, and Cultures, Opladen-Berlin: Barbare Budrick Publishers, 263-299.

2010    “Human Suffering and Forgiveness: A Dialogue with Kim Dae-jung from an East Asian Perspective,” in Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan & Joern Ruesen (eds.), Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context, New York: Berghahn Books, 193-203.

2009    “The Dynamics of the Middle Class Politics in Korea: Why and How do the Middling Grassroots differ from the Propertied Mainstream?,” Korean Journal of Sociology 43(3). 1-19.

2009    “Social Transformation in Contemporary Korea: Three Prime Movers in a Contested Civil Society.” Ananta Giri (ed.), The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom, London: Sage, 222-248.

2008    “Retributive Justice, Forgiveness and Dilemma in East Asia,” Civilization and Peace 2006, The Academy of Korean Studies Press, 403-428.

2007    “Paradoxical Modernity and the Quest for a Neo-Communitarian Alternative,” Society and Development Vol. 36(1), 2007, 103-128.

2007    “Intercultural Dialogue and a Balanced Approach to Human Rights in North Korea.” Kie-Duck Park & Sang-Jin Han (eds.), Human Rights in North Korea, Seoul: Sejong Institute, 2007, 237-280.

2007    “Institutional Confidence and Citizen Participation: Three Patterns of Trust Formation in East Asia,” in Yoon Deok-hong & HAN Sang-Jin (eds.), The Global Forum on Civilization and Peace, The Academy of Korean Studies, 2007, 144-176.

2006    “社會轉型與批判理論: 三個方法論議題,” 社會理論學報 Vol.9(2), 95-118.

2005    “Democratic Transformation and Non-Traditional Security: Challenges of Republic of Korea,” Zhang yunling (ed.), State and Civil Society in the Context of Transition: Understanding Non-Traditional Security in East Asia. World Affair Press, 69-118.

2005    “People-Based Politics: The Korean Experience of Dual Democratization and Three Unresolved Issues.” A Keynote Speech at the KPI Congress VII on People-Based Politics: Sustainable Democracy held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-6, 2005.

2005    “Democratic Transformation and Conflict Management in Korea.” Background Paper prepared for the Global Conference on Reinventing Governance3 organized by Korean Government and United Nation held in Seoul, May 24-27, 2005.

2005    “Reflections on the 60^th Anniversary of Korean Liberation.” Korean Policy Review, September, 2005, 18-22.

2005    “From Risk Society to Reflexive Modernization,” Presented at a Workshop on Risk Society held at Seoul National University, May 27-28, 2005.

2004    “Korea and U.S. Culture: Cultural Interaction from a Korean Perspective.” Pacific Partners, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 163-176.

2004    “The Role of Civil Society in Democratic Transformation: Reflection on Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Korea,” Paper presented in the Worshop on Non-Traditional Security organized by CASS, Beijing, China, April 23-24, 2004.

2003    “Theoretische Reflexionen ueber die asiatischen Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse,” in Iwo Amelung et al. (eds.), Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse in Asien: China – Japan – Korea. Deutsche Institut fuer Japanstudien, 325-352.

2002    “The Public Sphere and Democracy in Korea: A Debate on Civil Society,” Korean Politics: Striving for Democracy and Unification, edited by Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Seoul: Hollym, 255-282.

2001   “Economic Development and Democracy: Korea as a New Model?,” The Korean Economy: Reflections at the New Millennium, edited by Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Seoul: Hollym, 215-231.

2001    “Modernization and the Rise of Civil Society: The Role of the Middling Grassroots for Democratization in Korea,” Human Studies 24(1-2), 113-132.

2001    “The Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Media Reform” in Peace and Democracy in the Korean Peninsula, Proceedings of the International Conference in Commemoration of Three Years of the Kim Dae Jung Government, 2001.

2001    “Human Rights Education and Research Agenda for Advancing/Strengthening Democracies in East Asia,” in A Report: Preparatory Consultation for Establishing an Asian Institute for Human Rights, Bangkok, 21-30.

2000    “Internet Revolution and Asian Values: Where does Korea Stand and Why?,” Journal of American Studies 32(2), 235-253.

2000    “From the Kwangju Uprising in 1980 to a Communitarian Concept of Human Rights: A Confucian Vision for Participatory Democracy,” Proceedings of the Commemorative International Conference for the 20th Anniversary of 5.18 Kwangju Uprising, Chonnam National University, 204-224.

2000    “Die Roller der NGO zur Entwicklung der Kultur und Tradition der Koreanishen Brgerlichen Gesellschaft,” Datenbuch Seminars der ‘Kulturpolitik und Bgergesellschaft,’ Koreanisch-Deutsches Symposium zur Kulturpolitik, Korean Cultural Policy Institute, 64-80.

1999    “Popular Sovereignty and a Struggle for Recognition from a Perspective of Human Rights,” Korea Journal 39(2), 184-204.

1999    “Confucianism and Post-colonialism in the East Asian Context of Development,” The Review of Korean Studies 2(1), 23-44.

1999    “The Paradox of Modernization: The Normative Potential for Confucianism,” Proceedings of the Special Invitation Seminar, The Academy of Korean Studies, Oct. 7, 7-28.

1998    “The Case of the Middling Grassroots in Korea,” Joseph Camilleri & Chandra Muzzaffar (eds.), Globalization: The Perspectives and Experience of the Religious Tradition in Asia Pacific, Malaysia: Nanyang-Vivar Printing), 147-160.

1998    “What does a Critique of Ideology mean Today?,” Sang-Jin Han (ed.), Habermas and the Korean Debate. SNU Press, 19-46.

1998    “Four Critical Issues of the Korean Unification: An Extrapolation of Habermas' Lecture,” Habermas and the Korean Debate, SNU Press, 138-159.

1998    “Habermas' Critical Theory and Discursive Social Science,” Habermas and the Korean Debate, SNU Press, 216-241.

1998    “Three Tasks of Critical Theory and Korean Development,” Habermas and the Korean Debate, SNU Press, 289-315.

1998   “The Korean Path to Modernization and Risk Society,” Korea Journal 38(1), 5-27.

1997    “Human Rights and Growth in East Asia,” Korea Focus 5(1), 1-13.

1997    “The Public Sphere and Democracy in Korea: A Debate on Civil Society,” Korea Journal 37(4), 77-97.

1997    “The Political Economy and Moral Institutions: The Formation of the Middling Grassroots in Korea,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Vol. 23, Number 1 and 2, 71-89.

1997    “Globalization and Post-colonialism: Confucianism and East Asian Development,” Proceedings of the Kwangju Biennale International Symposium, Oct., (Kwangju), 1-18.

1996    “Modernization Deficit and the Quest for an East Asian Reflexive Sociology,” Proceedings of the East Asian Regional Colloquium on “The Future of Sociology in East Asia,” jointly Organized by the Korean Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association, SNU, 223-249.

1996    “The Rush-to Development and the Emergence of ‘Risk Society’: An Exploration of the Middling Grassroots’ Orientations and their Possible Contribution to Cross-National Solidarity in East Asia,” Democratization and Regional Cooperation in Asia, Kim Dae-Jung Peace Foundation, 341-379.

1996    “Modernization versus Risk Society,” Korea Focus, 3(4).

1996   “Critical Theory as Discursive Science? A Context-Bound Exploration and Evaluation,” Proceedings of the Seonam Workshop on Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory, The Seonam program committee, SNU, 3-14.

1996   “From Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Civil Society,” Proceedings of the FDL-AP International Convention, 1-24.

1996    “Media and Mediations: The Public Sphere in Korea's Democratic Transition,” Proceedings of the Macro-Sociology Colloquium at UCLA Center for Korean Studies, 2-27.

1996   “The NGO Grassroots Movement and Civil Society in Korea,” Proceedings of the Asia Foundation Workshop on “Civil Society, Good Governance and the Role of Foreign Assistance,” Taipei, 1-17.

1991   “Rethinking Democracy in the Age of Global Transformation,” Institute of Philosophical Thoughts (ed.), A Philosophical Vision for the Coming Civilization, SNU Press.

1990    “Social Changes in South and North Korea from an Evolutionary Perspective,” Myung-Ku Kang and Helmut Wagner (eds.), Korea and Germany: Lessons in Division, SNU Press, 385-411.

1987    “Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Economic Development in Korea during the Yushin Period: A Reexamination of O'Donnell's Theory,” in K. Kim (ed.), The Dependency Issues in Korean Development: Comparative Perspectives, SNU Press, 362-75.

1982    “The Bureaucratic Authoritarian State and Its Problems: A Confrontation with Guillermo O'Donnell,” in Sociological Review, Department of Sociology, SNU, 11-39.

1980    “The Logic of Social Formations: Toward a Synthesis of Althusser, Foucault, Offe and Habermas,” in Current Perspectives in Social Theory 1, 161-192.

1979    “Ideology-Critique and Social Science: The Use of Discursive Method,” in Scott McNall (ed.), Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 292-309.

1979    “Discursive Method and Social Theory: Selectivity, Discourse and Crisis: A Contribution to a Reflexive Sociology Critical of Domination,” Ph. D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University.