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Dr. Seonok Lee is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts. Her research focuses on social inequalities, international migration, race/ethnicity, gender, and platform capitalism, with recent emphasis on gig workers and creative labor in cross-national contexts. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, where her dissertation examined the intersections of global capitalism, migration, and racial hierarchies through ethnographic work with migrant workers in South Korea and Southeast Asian immigrant brides.
Teaching responsibilities include courses on minorities in Europe, media theory, research methodologies (quantitative/qualitative), and diversity management at the undergraduate level. She leads the research project 'Gig Workers in the Platform Metropolis' comparing delivery workers in the Netherlands and South Korea, supported by a $10,000 book publishing grant from The Academy of Korean Studies (2024).
Her work bridges sociological theory with contemporary issues, addressing platform economies' impacts on labor, migration's gendered dimensions, and language policies' exclusionary effects on academic labor markets. Key research outputs analyze algorithmic management of delivery workers, K-pop's educational influence on Dutch youth, and global platformization's cultural production dynamics.
- Grants: Book Publishing Grant ($10k), Academy of Korean Studies (2024)
- Labs/Teams: Leads platform labor research group within the Faculty of Arts
