Faculty Profiles - PARK Sangyoon | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sangyoon PARK

PhD in Economics
Northwestern University, 2016

Associate Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 3469 2423
sangyoon@ust.hk
Room 2378
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ORCID

0000-0003-3078-5956

ResearcherID

FRE-8325-2022

Scopus ID

57203816592

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Development economics
Labor economics
Political economy

Publications

All Years 12 2026 0 2025 2 2024 0 2023 5 2022 2 2021 0 2020 3

2025 2

Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII

Explorations in Economic History, v. 98, article number 101712
Izumi, Yutaro; Park, Sangyoon
Article

Generalizable Disaster Damage Assessment via Change Detection with Vision Foundation Model

Special Track on AI Alignment / edited by Walsh Toby; Shah Julie; Kolter Zico. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, p. 27784-27792
Ahn, Kyeongjin; Han, Sungwon; Park, Sungwon; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Cha, Meeyoung
Conference paper

2023 5

A human-machine collaborative approach measures economic development using satellite imagery

Nature Communications, v. 14, (1), article number 6811
Ahn, Donghyun; Yang, Jeasurk; Cha, Meeyoung; Yang, Hyunjoo; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Han, Sungwon; Lee, Eunji; Lee, Susang; Park, Sungwon
Article

Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Relationship, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain

Review of Economics and Statistics, p. 16803
Park, Sangyoon; Yuan, Zhaoneng; Zhang, Hongsong
Article

The economic costs of trade sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

Journal of International Economics, v. 145, article number 103813
Kim, Jihee; Kim, Kyoochul; Park, Sangyoon; Sun, Chang
Article

The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010

Journal of Comparative Economics, v. 51, (2), p. 422-438
Izumi, Yutaro; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo
Article

Fine-Grained Socioeconomic Prediction from Satellite Images with Distributional Adjustment

CIKM 2023 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 3717-3721
Ahn, Donghyun; Kim, Jihee; Song, Minhyuk; Park, Sangyoon; Lee, Seungeon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Choi, Yubin; Cha, Meeyoung
Conference paper

2022 2

Disaster assessment using computer vision and satellite imagery: Applications in detecting water-related building damages

Frontiers in Environmental Science, v. 10, article number 969758
Kim, Danu; Won, Jeongkyung; Lee, Eunji; Park, Kyung Ryul; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Cha, Meeyoung
Article

Learning Economic Indicators by Aggregating Multi-Level Geospatial Information

IAAI-22, EAAI-22, AAAI-22 Special Programs and Special Track, Student Papers and Demonstrations, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2022, p. 12053-12061
Park, Sungwon; Han, Sungwon; Ahn, Donghyun; Kim, Jaeyeon; Yang, Jeasurk; Lee, Susang; Hong, Seunghoon; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Cha, Meeyoung
Conference paper

2020 1

Learning to Score Economic Development from Satellite Imagery

KDD 2020 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 2970-2979
Han, Sungwon; Ahn, Donghyun; Park, Sungwon; Yang, Jeasurk; Lee, Susang; Kim, Jihee; Yang, Hyunjoo; Park, Sangyoon; Cha, Meeyoung
Conference paper

2019 1

Socializing at work: Evidence from a field experiment with manufacturing workers

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, v. 11, (3), p. 424-455
Park, Sangyoon
Article

2018 1

Coeducation, academic performance, and subject choice: evidence from quasi-random classroom assignments

Education Economics, v. 26, (6), p. 574-592
Park, Sangyoon
Article

Article 1

Education and wartime mobilization: Evidence from colonial Korea during WWII

Explorations in Economic History, v. 98, article number 101712
Izumi, Yutaro; Park, Sangyoon

Conference paper 1

Generalizable Disaster Damage Assessment via Change Detection with Vision Foundation Model

Special Track on AI Alignment / edited by Walsh Toby; Shah Julie; Kolter Zico. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, p. 27784-27792
Ahn, Kyeongjin; Han, Sungwon; Park, Sungwon; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Cha, Meeyoung

Article 4

A human-machine collaborative approach measures economic development using satellite imagery

Nature Communications, v. 14, (1), article number 6811
Ahn, Donghyun; Yang, Jeasurk; Cha, Meeyoung; Yang, Hyunjoo; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Han, Sungwon; Lee, Eunji; Lee, Susang; Park, Sungwon

Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Relationship, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain

Review of Economics and Statistics, p. 16803
Park, Sangyoon; Yuan, Zhaoneng; Zhang, Hongsong

The economic costs of trade sanctions: Evidence from North Korea

Journal of International Economics, v. 145, article number 103813
Kim, Jihee; Kim, Kyoochul; Park, Sangyoon; Sun, Chang

The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010

Journal of Comparative Economics, v. 51, (2), p. 422-438
Izumi, Yutaro; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo

Conference paper 1

Fine-Grained Socioeconomic Prediction from Satellite Images with Distributional Adjustment

CIKM 2023 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 3717-3721
Ahn, Donghyun; Kim, Jihee; Song, Minhyuk; Park, Sangyoon; Lee, Seungeon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Choi, Yubin; Cha, Meeyoung

Article 1

Disaster assessment using computer vision and satellite imagery: Applications in detecting water-related building damages

Frontiers in Environmental Science, v. 10, article number 969758
Kim, Danu; Won, Jeongkyung; Lee, Eunji; Park, Kyung Ryul; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Cha, Meeyoung

Conference paper 1

Learning Economic Indicators by Aggregating Multi-Level Geospatial Information

IAAI-22, EAAI-22, AAAI-22 Special Programs and Special Track, Student Papers and Demonstrations, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2022, p. 12053-12061
Park, Sungwon; Han, Sungwon; Ahn, Donghyun; Kim, Jaeyeon; Yang, Jeasurk; Lee, Susang; Hong, Seunghoon; Kim, Jihee; Park, Sangyoon; Yang, Hyunjoo; Cha, Meeyoung

Conference paper 1

Learning to Score Economic Development from Satellite Imagery

KDD 2020 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 2970-2979
Han, Sungwon; Ahn, Donghyun; Park, Sungwon; Yang, Jeasurk; Lee, Susang; Kim, Jihee; Yang, Hyunjoo; Park, Sangyoon; Cha, Meeyoung

Article 1

Socializing at work: Evidence from a field experiment with manufacturing workers

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, v. 11, (3), p. 424-455
Park, Sangyoon

Article 1

Coeducation, academic performance, and subject choice: evidence from quasi-random classroom assignments

Education Economics, v. 26, (6), p. 574-592
Park, Sangyoon

2020 1

Learning to Score Economic Development from Satellite Imagery

KDD 2020 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 2970-2979
Han, Sungwon; Ahn, Donghyun; Park, Sungwon; Yang, Jeasurk; Lee, Susang; Kim, Jihee; Yang, Hyunjoo; Park, Sangyoon; Cha, Meeyoung
Conference paper

2019 1

Socializing at work: Evidence from a field experiment with manufacturing workers

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, v. 11, (3), p. 424-455
Park, Sangyoon
Article

2018 1

Coeducation, academic performance, and subject choice: evidence from quasi-random classroom assignments

Education Economics, v. 26, (6), p. 574-592
Park, Sangyoon
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Spring 2 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 1 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 1 2024-25 Winter 0

MASS5210	Economic Development
SOSC5440	Economics of Development

MASS5210

Economic Development

SOSC5440

Economics of Development

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 February 2026)

Current RPGs

Master of Philosophy

LAO, Ziyi
Social Science

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 3

No Projects.
The Economic Legacy of Civilian Killings: Evidence from the Korean War

平民屠殺的經濟遺產: 來自朝鮮戰爭的證據 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
PARK Sangyoon (Lead)
2024 -
Impact Evaluation of Seoul Safety Income (Negative Income Tax) Project

首爾安全收入（負收入稅）項目的影響評估 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
PARK Sangyoon (Lead)

KIM Hyuncheol Bryant
2023 -
The Long-run Impacts of Meritocratic Education in South Korea: Human Capital, Social Capital, and Local Elites

韓國英才教育的長期影響：人力資本、社會資本和地方精英 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
PARK Sangyoon (Lead)
2023 - 2024

Research Interest

Publications

2025 2

2023 5

2022 2

2020 1

2019 1

2018 1

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Article 4

Conference paper 1

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 1

Article 1

Article 1

2020 1

2019 1

2018 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 10 February 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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