E-mail from Hyeong-ki Kwon
1999 Scholarship Recipient

Dear my respectful SNU alumni. This is Hyeong-ki Kwon in the Political Science at the University of Chicago.

I would like to appreciate SNUAA alumni for your generous scholarship which I received at the end of 1999. Thanks to the scholarship, I could finish my dissertation and graduate in December 2002.

Without any exaggeration, the scholarship was very valuable fund for my field research in 1999-2000 which became one of main parts in my dissertation. My dissertation, "Fairness and Division of Labor in Market Society" explores how different liberal regimes and social norms like fairness are constituted in liberal market societies. Many interviews that I could conduct due to this timely fund provided my thesis with fresh and interesting data. These data have been acknowledged very precious by many scholars in political science; thus, several parts of my dissertation could be published in well-known journals, such as "Politics and Society," "Comparative Political Studies," and "German Politics and Society." Without timely fund, I could not make these achievements.

I would like to thank all of you, my respectful alumni again. Best Wishes. Your Hyeong-ki Kwon.