Erik Mobrand
Erik Mobrand is an associate professor of Korean Studies at Seoul National University. His research and teaching deal with politics in East Asia, with an emphasis on Korean and Chinese societies. Erik holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton and worked previously at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of a forthcoming book called Top-Down Democracy in South Korea (University of Washington Press, 2019).
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