Jong-sung You is Director of the Korea Inequality Research Lab and Visiting Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Yonsei University. He has studied the relationship between inequality, corruption and trust, and social policy to address inequality and poverty including basic income and pension reform. His book includes Democracy, Inequality and Corruption: Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He received Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University at age 50, and taught at UC San Diego, Australian National University, and Gachon University. He was imprisoned three times for his struggle for democracy when he was young.