Master’s Student Urban and Regional Planning, Seoul National University Researcher of SNU Housing Lab

Contact Information

📧 Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

🏫 Address: Room 216, Building 82, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea

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Research Interests

• Housing and Neighborhood
  • Housing Policy
  • Neighborhood Change and Gentrification
  • Residential Mobility and Displacement
• Education and Early Childhood Policy
  • School Segregation, School Choice, and School Reform
  • Early Childhood Care, Childhood Poverty, and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty
• Health Policy
  • Mental Health and Suicide
  • Birth Outcome and Cognitive Development

🎓 Education

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Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2025 - )

• M.C.P. in Urban and Regional Planning

Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (2020 - 2025)

• B.S. in Urban Planning and Engineering
• B.A. in Public Policy and Management (Double Major)
• GPA: 4.11/4.3, *Summa ****Cum ***Laude

University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (2023 - 2024)

• International Exchange Student Program, Completed 33 Credits on Urban Studies and Public Service Major ****
• GPA: 3.95/4.0 </aside>

📒 Publications & Presentations

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📰 Publications

Coming Soon🙂

🗣️ Presentations (International)

• (forthcoming) Mordechay, K., Lee, H., & Yu, H. Suburbanizing Gentrification: How Policy Environments and Demographics Shape School Segregation. APPAM 2026 Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
• (forthcoming) Yu, H., & Lee, H. Gentrification through Urban Redevelopment: Low-Income Residential Mobility in Seoul. ACSP 2026 Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

🗣️ Presentations (Domestic)

• Yu, H. Estimating School Effects Using Academic Achievement Variation During COVID-19 Pandemic from Seasonal Comparison Approach. Korean Educational Research Association 2026 Annual Conference, Cheongju, Korea.
• Yu, H., Seomun, G. & Lee, H. The Impact of Residential Gentrification on Residential Mobility in the Seoul Metropolitan Area. Korea Association for Housing Policy Studies 2026 Annual Fall Meeting, Seoul, Korea. (Selected as the top paper)

📝 Working Papers

• Yu, H. & Lee, H. Gentrification through Urban Redevelopment: Low-Income Residential Mobility in Seoul

✏️ Works In Progress

• Suburban Gentrification and School Segregation in the United States
• Gentrification, Residential Mobility, and Adverse Birth Outcome: Evidence from Sibling-Matched Census Data in Korea </aside>

📚 Research Experience

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Selected works with funding

Seoul National University

• Neighborhood-School Structures for Children: Evidence-Based Policy Research Using Survey and Register-Based Census Panel Data (in Korean)
  • Principal Investigator, Dissertation Research Support Program (2026 - 2027), Funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (approx. $10,000).

Yonsei University

• The Necessity and Effectiveness of the Assistance for Victims of Jeonse Fraud in Korea (in Korean)
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Research Grants (2024), Funded by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
• How Local Communities Can Address Heat Wave and Heat Illness Problems: Focusing on Policy Transfer from Sacheon To Gwangyang, Korea (in Korean) (Released Reports)
  • PLAY(Public Leadership Administration for Yonseians) Undergraduate Research Program (2024), Funded by the Department of Public Policy and Management, and the Institute for Higher Education Innovation.

University of Pittsburgh

• Assessing Community Power in Hazelwood: An Exploration of Innovation Districts and Equitable Development
  • Undergraduate Graduation Capstone (2024), Funded by the Heinz Endowments. </aside>