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Francis Yoon is a Lecturer in the Department of International Development at King's College London. Prior to joining King's, he was a research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He holds a PhD in management, specializing in industrial relations and East Asian studies from Freie Universität Berlin, an MPhil in sociology from Cambridge, and a BA in economics from UC San Diego. His research focuses on the political economy of labor sociology and development, with a particular emphasis on cultural sociology and East Asian capitalism. Francis's work examines how national institutions shape development in creative digital industries in East Asia, with specific attention to firms' strategies and the skills of workers. His research has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Competition & Change. He was awarded the David Marsden Paper Prize in 2022 and recognized as an Early Career Scholar in 2023 by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics (SASE).
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