Da Move Lab (다무브랩) provides a platform on which graduate researchers can develop their ideas on social movements, human rights, social networks, and political sociology. The lab is organized by Chan S. Suh (서찬석), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University (CAU) in South Korea.

On the Move in 2025

Two of our collaborative research, written in Korean, are accepted this spring. First, 0ur study by Dayoung Jeong, Eunhye Cho, and Chan S. Suh, entitled “Spanning Participants in the Social Movement Society (횡단하는 참여자들: 사회운동 사회에서의 기후정의행진 및 퀴어퍼레이드 참여자들에 대한 특성 분석)”, is published at the Korean Journal of Sociology. Second, our research by Yura Jeong, Shin Haeng Lee, and others, “When Hate Meets Hate (혐오와 혐오가 만날 때: 온라인 커뮤니티에 나타난 정치 혐오 및 사회 혐오 키워드의 결합에 대한 분석)”, is forthcoming at Information Society and Media.
Chan S. Suh and his research team (P.I.: Myung Hee Kim) have received a two-year grant to study the ethical, legal, and social implications of public health responses to infectious diseases from the National Medical  Center. 
After completing his Master's thesis in four semesters, Shin Haeng Lee is beginning his professional career this spring at Hankook Research, one of the leading marketing and opinion research companies in South Korea since 1978. 
Hyogyoung Kim has been admitted to the doctoral program in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Arizona. Her research will center around the topics of immigration, race and ethnicity, and family.
The Chairman of Miwon Holdings, Jeong-Don Kim, has provided Du-Myeong Fellowship to the graduate researchers who are conducting their social scientific research in the lab. We sincerely appreciate his generous and unwavering support for our lab.

On the Move in 2024
This summer, three papers on political participation have been published at the Journal of Asian Sociology, Survey Research, and the Journal of Homosexuality, respectively. The first paper, entitled “Emotional Pathway to Activism”, illuminates the emotional foundation upon which one decides to engage in activism. The second one, “Who Participates in Politics and How?”, examines the effects of age and education on the different forms of political participation. The final one, titled “Moving Apart, Coming Together”, focuses on the emergence and development of the LGBTQ movement community in South Korea.
Two of our lab members, Hyogyoung Kim and Shin Haeng Lee, have attended and completed the ICPSR summer program in Quantitative Methods at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – with support from Du-Myeong Fellowship. After completing the program, Hyogyoung Kim has presented her research on immigration at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 
Chan S. Suh and his cosortium team (P.I.: Jee-Hyong Lee) have received an eight-year grant to establish an ICT research center from the Ministry of Science and ICT. The consortium will focus on inventing open-ended artificial intelligence technologies.
Chan S. Suh and his colleagues (P.I.: Jeong-Woo Koo) have received a three-year research grant for their project on K-pop fandoms from the National Research Foundation of Korea. This project examines the dynamics of K-pop fandoms by combining approaches from sociology and data science.
Two papers on online platforms have been published at PLOS ONE, an international journal in the field of science. The paper titled “Mobilizing Grievances in the Internet Age” has started as an undergraduate thesis by Kayoon Kim and developed as a collaborative work with Chan S. Suh. The other paper, “The Hatred of All against All?”, is a study that Chan S. Suh and his colleagues have conducted on online hateful expression.
Our collaborative research by Eunsoo Cho, Seulsam Lee, and Chan S. Suh, entitled “Between Ethnic Diversity and Immigration”, has been published at Social Science Research, a prestigious international journal in social sciences. The initial idea of the paper was first proposed in the undergraduate thesis by Eunsoo Cho. 

On the Move in 2023

Jeong-Don Kim, the Chairman of Miwon Holdings, has generously provided Du-myeong Fellowship to the graduate researchers who are proceeding their social scientific studies in the Da Move Lab. We are very grateful for the support that he gave to facilitate social scientific research. 
​Chan S. Suh has received CAU Teaching Excellence Award in 2023, making him one of the first faculty members to receive the award twice from the university. He has also been nominated in the list of Best Teachers at CAU for every single semesters since 2018. 
Celebrating the launch of our lab on November 23rd, 2023, ​Sidney Tarrow, emiritus professor at Cornell University, has sent a message to our lab. Professor Tarrow is globally renowned for his pioneering research on social movements and contentious politics. “Congratulations on the launch of Da Move, the first —and so far the only— Korean lab to focus on the actions and the strategies of social movements. I welcome the fact that the Asian country with the most active social movement scene will take the lead in research on social movement activism.” 
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