[2] She was one of three children of Cecilia (née Litichver) and magazine editor Julio Korn [es], and her paternal grandfather was a Bessarabian Jewish immigrant.
[3] After spending a year at UBA as a sociology lecturer (1965-1966), she later moved to the United Kingdom, where she obtained her Master in Teaching degree at the London School of Economics in 1966.
[3][2] After working as an associate at the Torcuato di Tella Institute from 1971 until 1972, she began working as professor of sociology at Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and as a National Scientific and Technical Research Council investigator in 1972,[3][2] before eventually becoming an emeritus researcher at the latter.
[7][3] Daniel Gigena of La Nación said that "she stood out as one of the intellectuals of the golden age of the world of ideas in Argentina from the 1960s onwards".
[2][4] In addition to academia, Korn also wrote short stories, published in a book titled Más Amalias de las que se puede tolerar.