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Asia-Oceania Region
Sung-Jae Choi, PhD
Dr. Sung-Jae Choi, Chairperson
of the Asia/Oceania Region, International Association of Gerontology is
Professor of Social Welfare at Seoul National University, Korea. He earned
his Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
Ohio. He served as the President of the Korean Council on Social Welfare
Education, the President of the Korean Academy of Social Welfare, and the
President of the Korea Gerontological Society. He is currently a member of the
editorial boards of the Australasian Journal on Ageing (official journal of
the Australian Association on Ageing), Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work
(official journal of the Asia-Pacific Association for Social Work Education),
Geriatrics and Gerontology International (official English journal of the
Japan
Geriatrics Society), and Hallym International Journal of Aging (official
English journal of the Hallym University Institute of Aging Biotechnology,
Korea). He was also the chairperson of the Organizing Committee for the
6th Asia/Oceania Regional Congress of Gerontology held in Seoul Korea in
1999.
Dr. Choi has been widely
involved in government policy-making on aging: served as advisor to the
Minister of Health and Welfare; member of the Health and Welfare Policy
Development Committee and the Four-Social-Insurance Integration Planning
Committee under the Prime Minister; he currently serves as a member of the
Long-term Care Policy Planning Committee, Ministry of Health and Welfare;
a member of the Advisory Committee for Population/Aged Aging Society Task
Force Team of the Presidential Office; and Co-Chairperson of the Social
Welfare Review Committee, Seoul Metropolitan Government. He has also been actively involved in civil society organizations and movements:
he served as
chairperson of the Social Welfare Committee, Citizen's Coalition for Economic
Justice, and chairperson of the Social Welfare Committee, National Christian
Ethical Practice Movement, and currently serves as the president of the Korean
Information & Referral Service Center on Aging.
Dr. Choi's major research
interests include social policy and services for the elderly, research
methods in program evaluation and social welfare administration. His
publications include books, research papers, and book chapters. He is
co-author of books on Welfare of the Elderly, Social Welfare
Administration, etc., and he is also chief editor of several books,
Social Problems and Social Welfare, Ageing in Korea, etc. His published
papers and book chapters include "The Family and Ageing
in Korea: A New Concern and Challenge," in Ageing and Society(1996);
"Aging in Korea: Issues and Policies" in Aging in Asia-Pacific
Region: Issues, Policies and Future Trends, edited by D.R. Phillips
(2000), and National Policies on Ageing in Korea in Ageing and Long-term
Care: National Policies in the Asia-Pacific edited by D.R. Phillips and
A.C. Chan (2002). Recently he has been involved in several research studies on
centenarians and the oldest old in Korea.
Selected Publications
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Choi,
Sung-Jae & Suh, Hay-Kyung (Eds.). (1995). Aging
in Korea. Seoul: Choongang Chuksung Publishing Co.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae & Nam, Ki-Min. (2000). Social
Welfare Administration, 2nd Ed. Seoul: Nanam Publishing Co.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae & Chang, In-Hyub. (2002). Welfare
of the Aged, 2nd Ed. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (1996). The Family and Aging in Korea. Ageing
and Society, 16, 1, 1-25.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (1997). Roles of the Social Welfare and the Elderly Market
in the U. S. A. Journal of the
Korea Gerontological Society, 17, 3, 199-227.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae et al. (2000). A Comparative Study on Long-term Care of Korea
and Japan. Journal of Korean
Gerontological Society, 23, 3, 139-163.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (2000). Aging in Korea: Issues and Policies. In D. R.
Phillips (Ed.), Aging in the
Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Policies and Future Trends(pp.
223-242). London: Routledge.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (2002). “National Policies on Ageing in Korea.” In Ageing
and Long-Term Care: National Policies in the Asia-Pacific(pp.
68-106). Edited by D. R. Phillips and A. C. M. Chan. Singapore:
Institutes of Southeast Asian Studies.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (2002). An Exploratory Study on Social Psychological Factors
Contributing to Longevity: Research on Characteristics of Centenarians
in Korea, Japan and Finland. Journal of Korea Gerontological
Society, 22, 3, 183-207.
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Choi,
Sung-Jae. (2003). Economic Status, Work, and Retirement. In J.
Hendricks & H. S. Yoon (Eds.), Handbook of Asian Aging.
Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Company (in press).
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