Bio
Jeongone (Joh) Seo, Ph.D., LMSW, is a researcher and licensed social worker currently pursuing her second Ph.D. in Library & Information Science at Rutgers University in the U.S., after she earned her doctorate in Social Entrepreneurship from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Her interdisciplinary research integrates social entrepreneurship, digital healthcare, AI literacy, and inclusive platform design, emphasizing elderly and immigrant communities.
As a 2025/2026 Fellow at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE), Jeongone explores the economic, technological, and operational factors behind the failure of government-led platform initiatives, focusing on how digital rent extraction, market misalignments, and technological shortcomings contribute to their collapse.
Her work critically examines South Korea’s BaedalTeukgeup platform as a case study. Joh previously founded the Moms-in-SNU student-parent cooperative and served as Executive Director at the Yongsan District Center for Community and Social Economy in Seoul. Her projects have been supported by research institutions in South Korea and the U.S.