Yongmoon KimGraduate Student

• M.A in Sociology, Korea University, Republic of Korea, 2022
• B.A in Sociology and Economics, Korea University, Republic of Korea, 2020

Broadly, my research interests lie in examining the relationship between social actions and health outcomes. More specifically, I am interested in how individuals navigate multiple structural forces in shaping their actions, and how these actions, in turn, produce diverse health consequences. Currently, I'm interested in three empirical domains: (1) how individuals organize multiple cultural repertoires and how this process relates to the concept of behavioral addiction; (2) strategies for surveilling and preventing chronic diseases and mental illness across the different stages of life course; and (3) the effects of cultural repertoires and their meanings on the transmission of communicable diseases.

• Technical researcher, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA), Republic of Korea
•  Senior researcher, Division of Risk Assessment,  Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA), Republic of Korea

• Seontae Kim, Jia Lee, Jiyoung Oh, Ji Joo Lee, Geehyuk Kim, Jaehwa Chung, Yunhee Lee, Yongmoon Kim, Sangwoo Tak*. 2025. ”Event-based surveillance in Republic of Korea: assessment of the effectiveness of Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources”. Western Pac Surveill Response J ,28;16(3)
• Yongmoon Kim and Jae-Mahn Shim*. 2025. ”Types of organizing daily practices and their association with video gaming among South Korean adolescents”. Health and Social Science, 68(1):59-84.
• Hong S, Oh J, Lee J, Kim Y, Kim BI, Lee MJ, Kim H, Tak S*. 2024.“Performance of indicators used in regular risk assessments for COVID-19 in association with contextual factors” Osong Public Health Res Perspect, 15(5):420-428.
• Shim, Jae-Mahn* and Yong Moon Kim. 2024.“Korean Semiotics of the Face Mask: Meanings of the Mask, Meanings of Everyday Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Korea Journal (A&HCI), 64(1):5-38.
• Kim Y*, Kim BI, Tak S. 2022. “Time-Series Comparison of COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates across 21 Countries with Adjustment for Multiple Covariates.” Osong Public Health Res Perspect, 13(6):424-434.