Park is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification.

She received her doctoral degree in Political Science from SungKyunKwan University, and her research interest includes North Korean politics, comparative institutions and regimes, political change, and distraction and integration.

She served as a research professor at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies of Ewha Womans University, a senior/visiting research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Regional Studies of SungKyunKwan University, a research professor at the Research Institute of Asian Women of Sookmyung Women’s University, an advisor to the National Unification Advisory Council, a member of the policy planning committee of the Korean Council for Reunification and Cooperation, and a policy evaluation officer for and an advisor to the Ministry of Unification.

Her main publications include Causes and Routes of Changes in North Korea (2019), State Apparatus and the State Nature of North Korea in the Kim Jung-un Era (2018), Eight Changes in the North Korean Economic Society in the Kim Jong-un Era (2018), Deviation of North Koreans and Legal Responses (2018), Organization and Functions of Korean Workers’ Party in the Kim Jung-un Era: Focusing on Regime Stabilization Strategies (2017), and North Korean Women: 70 Years of History of Birth and Ordeals (LP Book, 2017). She also authored numerous theses and books.