
Miree Byun
Miree Byun (Ph.D in Sociology) is a Director of the Urban Monitoring Center in Seoul Institute(www.si.re.kr). Seoul Institute is the Think Tank for the Seoul Metropolitan Government. A graduate of Seoul National University, her research area lies in Social changes, social policy and urban monitoring for enhancing the quality of citizen’s life. Her work focuses on international comparative study on government policy for urban competitiveness. She stayed a year at National Center for Digital Government of the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a visiting scholar and is a member of committee on Social Welfare Service of Seoul. Her publications include “ Future Generation and Issues in the Future city”(2022), “Social Issues in the Smart City Era and Tasks of the Seoul”(2020) and many others.