Park received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics at Seoul National University, and received his doctorate degree at the University of Wisconsin in the US. He started his life in Japan in 1999, when he started to work as an associate professor at Tokyo International University. He is currently a professor at the faculty of international studies of Waseda University, and has also lectured on Korean economy at the University of Michigan in the US, during 2010-2011. He has majored in macro-economics and published papers mainly focusing on the exchange rate or the rationality of economic units. More recently his studies are more focused on analyzing business data of Korea and Japan. Since publishing Escaping Recession in 2016, he has become a noted economics commentator. Park currently writes regular columns on the economies of Korea and Japan, and busily works on writing papers and giving interviews and lectures.