Dr. Seungyeoun Cho is a Research Fellow in Housing Welfare Lab. at Land & Housing Institute, at Land and Housing Corporation. Her research is focused on housing and urban policy for low-income and socially underprivileged. Her latest research is aligned to social housing for low-income and the old. Her work looks at how these social housings make offer both hardware service and software service with the low cost. Land and Housing Corporation has more than 1 million social housing and 1/3 of residents are aged persons over 65 and most of them are low income families. She works closely with social housing key members as providers, policymakers, governments and residents.

Her previous research encompasses housing environment assessment and management system focusing on vulnerable groups including aged persons who lives in social housing. She has worked in various field relating with social housings such as urban regeneration and housing policy at LHI since 2007. Her academic degrees comprise a BA in Housing Environment from Yonsei University,  an MSc in Urban and Regional Environment from Seoul National University, Korea and a PhD in Urban Planning from University of Tokyo, Japan.

Publications: 

A Study on Residential Environment and Support Service of the Elderly at Social Housings (2022) Land and Housing Institute

A Study on Management and Operation System of Small-scale and decentralized social housings (2022) Land and Housing Institute

A Study on Mixed-use Development Cases Using Closed Quarry Site of Overseas; the UK and Australia (2021) Volume 54, Issue 5, Economic and Environmental Geology

A study on residential service linkage strategy with Buy-to-Rent housing for adding social value (2018) Land and Housing Institute