BIOGRAPHIES OF PARTICIPANTS
Joyup Ahn (Ph.D. in Economics, The Ohio State University) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Labor Institute since 1999 and Exchange Scholar at the George Washington University (Economics Department) since 2007. Dr. Ahn was a research professor at the University of Vermont during academic year 1997-1999. After graduating from Seoul National University (B.A. and M.A. in International Economics), he has received M.A. degree (Economics) from Yale University (1996) and Ph.D. degree (Economics) from the Ohio State University (1997). Since 2001, he has served as a director (and its Research Director for 2003-2005) of Korean Labor Economics Association and served as an editorial board member of the Korean Journal of Labor Economics and Korean Journal of Economics. From 2001 to 2003, he served as an expert member of the Korean Tripartite Committee and has served as a committee member of the Labor Relations Commission-Seoul (Anti-discrimination Subcommittee) since 2007. He was a Vice-president of the Department of Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD (Working Party V) from 2004 to 2009. He was in charge of a director of the Labor Market Analysis Office and a chief editor of the Korea Monthly Labor Review and the Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy at the KLI. Also, he was in charge of managing the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (1999-2001) and the Korean Workplace Panel Survey (2001-2003). He authored many books, articles, and research reports. Some of his books are: Labor and Discrimination I: Anti-Discrimination Laws and Regulations in Advanced Countries (2006), Labor and Discrimination II: Recognition and Reality (2006), Career Formation of Workers in the Cultural Industry (2005), Long-Term Forecast of the Labor Demand and Supply: 2005-2020 (2005), Labor in the Financial Industry Before and After the Recent Economic Crisis (2004), Nonstandard Workers and Policy Implications (I, II, III), (2001, 2002, 2003), The Recent Economic Crisis and the Changes in the Unemployment Structure (1999).
Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr., is a former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency and a retired Marine who has lived and worked in Korea and continues to visit there frequently. He received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently serves as a professor of international relations at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He also served as a visiting adjunct professor at the Korea University Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, Korea during 2006-2007. In addition to being author of Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea (Potomac Books, 2007) he is a contributing author to several books on North Korea, and has written nearly two dozen articles dealing with Korean security issues in peer-reviewed journals to include the Korea Observer, the International Journal of Korean Studies, Comparative Strategy, Pacific Focus, the Air and Space Power Journal, the East Asian Review, the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, and Occasional Papers, the Journal of the Korean American Historical Society. Bechtol is the former editor of the Defense Intelligence Journal (2004-2005) and served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the East Asian Review (2005-2009). Bechtol sits on the Board of Directors of the International Council on Korean Studies, the Board of Directors of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies.
Kwang Soo Cheong is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University. Previously he taught at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. At the University of Hawaii, he also served as a faculty member of the Center for Korean Studies. Dr. Cheong received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Economics from Seoul National University in Korea, and his doctorate in Economics from Stanford University. He has diverse research and teaching interests, and has published in the fields of Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Income Distribution. Dr. Cheong has been also active in both scholarly and non-academic activities related to Korea. In the past, he was a visiting fellow at Korea Development Institute, a member of the Advisory Council on Democratic and Peaceful Unification of Korea, and the Secretary General of the Korea-America Economic Association. He is currently serving as a board member of the Washington Korean-American Forum, a board member and the Secretary General of the International Council on Korean Studies, and the Vice President and an Investment Fund Manager of the Korea-America Economic Association. Dr. Cheong has made many seminar and lecture presentations at various institutions and organizations in Korea, such as Audit and Inspection Research Institute of Korea, Korean Development Institute, Korea Economic Research Institute, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea Institute of Public Finance, Seoul National University, and the SK Research Institute.
Jong hyun Choi has been the Minister for Economic Affairs in the Korean Embassy in Washington, DC since March 2008. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yonsei University in Korea, and graduated from the University of Cambridge in England with an M.A. in International Relations. Since joining the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981, he has served in various overseas postings including the United States, Australia, and Belgium. He has been mostly involved in international trade matters at the Ministry, most recently having served as Director-General at the Bilateral Trade Bureau, responsible for promoting Korea’s bilateral economic and trade relations with the U.S., China, Japan and the EU.
Young B. Choi is Associate Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems and Computer Information Systems, College of Busines at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a faculty member of the Department of Computer Information Systems & Management Science of James Madison University in Virginia. He worked for Broadxent, Inc., a subsidiary of CREATIVE Technology Ltd. as a Principal Engineer, Birlasoft, Inc., COMPAQ Computer Corporation in Silicon Valley, The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City Kansas Community College, ETRI, KAIST, and Chonnam National University in Korea. His main research areas are Service & Network Managements in Telecom, Mobile & Wireless Communications and Telemedicine, International Standardization in the NGN, Computer/Network Security and Privacy, Green Computing and Green Communications. He received his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Computer Networking & Telecommunications from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has been serving as an Associate Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine of the IEEE Communications Society and for many other international journals and conferences in computer networking and telecommunications fields. He received the Chancellor's Non-Resident Award of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (1988); INTEROP '92 Networking Achievement Award in Education Category (1992); Best Paper Award of the Track of HICSS-27 (1994); Best Paper Award of IEEE NOMS ’96 (1996); Outstanding Contribution Award of the TeleManagement Forum (1998); Best Practitioner Publication Award of James Madison University College of Business (2006).
John Goulde is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Sweet Briar College. A graduate of Seoul National University (Philosophy and Religion BA ‘75) and Harvard University (Comparative Religion MA ’80, Ph.d ’85), Dr. Goulde’s research areas include Korean Religions, Buddhism and Daoism in North Asia, Medieval Korean Culture, and Cross-cultural Relations in North Asia: Ancient and Modern. Dr. Goulde is trained in the sociological understanding and interpretation of religions and religious biography. He currently serves as an editor for Acta Koreana (Keimyung University), a steering committee member of the Korean Religions Group in the American Academy of Religion, and webmaster for the East Asian Religions Section of the WWW Virtual Library. He also is a regular contributor to the Summer Seminars on Korea, sponsored by the Korea Society in New York City. These seminars train secondary school social science teachers in Korean history, language and literature. He is currently working on two monographs, a sociological history of Korean religions and a translation and a study of Chông Man-jong’s 17th century collection of Korean Daoist biographies (The Haedong Ijŏk ).
Jai Kwan Jung received his B.A. and M.A. from Korea University and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research and teaching interests include Korean politics, civil wars and post-war reconstruction, comparative political institutions, and social movements. His work has appeared in European Journal of Political Research, Mobilization, Qualitative Methods, and elsewhere. His current research focuses on institutional design and democracy promotion in post-conflict societies and inter-Korean relations.
Jae O. Kang retired from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire where she holds the title of Associate Professor Emeritus of Medical Laboratory Science. She received her B.S. degree in Medical Technology from Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. Upon completing two years’ post-doctoral training at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, Dr. Kang chose to enter academia because of her strong belief that providing students with a good education is of prime importance. At the University of New Hampshire, she taught Physiological/Pathological Biochemistry and Toxicology. While serving as Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Department, Dr. Kang made a significant contribution to Medical Laboratory Science education and the University of New Hampshire by expanding the scope of Medical Laboratory Science education to include research science. She actively served the University and her profession. Her service included the University Academic Senate, Executive Committee, Pre-Medical Advisory Committee, and President’s Commission
on the Status of Women. Dr. Kang was a member of the external Evaluation Team for the Medical Laboratory Science Program, Hunter College of City University of New York and a member of the Review Board for the Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science. Dr. Kang’s primary research interest was in free radical reactions in biology. Some of her research projects were supported by the National Institute of Health. She published numerous articles in various science journals and presented may seminars and lectures on her research topics. Dr. Kang has received numerous honors to include the Roland O’Neal Professorship and President’s Commission on the Status of Women Award at the University of New Hampshire. Currently, Dr. Kang is serving as Vice President and a member of the Governing Board of the International Council on Korean Studies.
Hong Nack Kim (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. Dr. Kim was a visiting Fulbright fellow at Keio University (1979, 1982) and Fulbright Professor of Political Science at Seoul National University during the academic year 1990-1991. After graduating from Seoul National University (B.A. in Political Science), he has received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (Political Science) from Georgetown University (1960, 1965). From 1983 to 1985, he served as the president of the Association of Korean Political Scientists in North America. After serving as president of the International Council on Korean Studies (2004-2008), he is currently chairman of the board of directors, the International Council on Korean Studies. Formerly editor of Asian Forum, Asia Pacific Review, and International Journal of Korean Studies, he has written widely on East Asian affairs, contributing over 130 articles to such journals as Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, Current History, World Politics, Keio Journal of Politics, International Journal of Korean Studies, Asia Quarterly Asia Pacific Community, Asian Affairs: An American Review, Journal of East Asian Affairs, World Affairs, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, North Korean Review, Korea and World Affairs, Korea Observer, and Problems of Communism. He has also contributed several articles to Colliers Encyclopedia Yearbook (1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, and 1990) and 1981 Yearbook on International Communist Affairs (Hoover Institution Press). In addition, he has authored or edited seven books, including North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival (M. E. Sharpe, 2006, Co-editor: Young Whan Kihl). In the fall semester of 2005, he was a Visiting POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His paper entitled “The Koizumi Government and the Politics of Japanese-North Korean Relations” was published in East-West Center Working Papers (Politics, Governance and Security Series), (No. 14 February 2006). He is a recipient of the outstanding research award from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University (1985).
Hugo Wheegook Kim is President and Founder of the East-West Research Institute in the suburban area of Washington, DC. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Korean Studies (IJKS), and serves the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies (CUSKOS) for its annual conferences. Dr. Kim is interested in political economy and strategic studies, and currently working on a book project entitled “History of Politics and Economy: Theory and Practice” for students of politics and economics as well as general readers. He has published many articles in academic journals and wrote three books including Korean Americans and Inter-Korean Relations (Washington, DC: East-West Research Institute, 2003). Dr. Kim received a B.S. from the Korea Military Academy in Seoul and graduated from the Korean Army Commander and Staff College in Chinhae, South Korea. Receiving his MBPA from the Southeastern University, Dr. Kim earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. During his active duty, he experienced various positions in the Korean Army and retired as a Professor of the Korea National Defense University in Seoul, and moved to Fairfax, Virginia with his family. Teaching at the Southeastern University during 1989-1991, Dr. Kim has participated in various research activities in Washington, DC until present.
Jisoo Kim will join The George Washington University as Korea Foundation Assistant Professor starting in the academic year of 2010-11. She will be affiliated with the Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs. Her research field is gender and law of early modern Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910). Her dissertation, which is entitled “Voices Heard: Women’s Right to Petition in Late Chosŏn Korea,” explores women’s utilization of the right to petition the state to redress grievances. By examining women’s petitioning activity of all social statuses, this study shows how the state sought to embrace the voice of every subject and how gender was constructed through constant negotiation between women and the state through petitioning in legally sanctioned public spaces. She will receive Ph.D. degree from Columbia University this fall. She recently contributed a chapter in Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392-1910 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush. She is currently a visiting scholar at International Center for Korean Studies, Seoul National University.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs and Chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at The George Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. Her publications include Creative Women of Korea (M.E. Sharpe, 2004) and nine other books, numerous book chapters, journal articles, and three biennial issues of Korean Linguistics, of which she is Editor-in-Chief. Kim-Renaud is a recipient of three Fulbright awards, two for Korea and one for Jordan. She has won a number of research grants and institutions grants for GW from various funding agencies including the Korea Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the ROK Arts and Culture Foundation. In 2006 Kim-Renaud received a Republic of Korea Jade Order of Cultural Merit. Most recently, she received the Bichumi Grand Award from Samsung Life Foundation as a Woman of the Year 2008 for Public Service.
Subir Lall is Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund, and the Mission Chief for Korea. He holds a B.A. (first class with Honors) in Economics from the University of Delhi (1989), and a Master's and Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University (1990, 1995), where he was the recipient of the Susan B. Kamins Fellowship. He has been a member of IMF country teams in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He is the lead author of the IMF World Economic Outlook studies on “Building Institutions”, “Financial Systems and Economic Cycles”, “Globalization and Inequality” and “Financial Stress and Economic Cycles”. His other research interests and academic publications are in the areas of speculative attacks, contagion and financial crises, and financial market microstructure. He has served as academic referee for several journals, including Annals of Operations Research, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics Letters, International Economic Review, Journal of Futures Markets, and the Journal of Political Economy.
Haeduck Lee is a Senior Economist at the Development Economics Data Group of the World Bank. He currently works on operational projects and programs to strengthen statistical capacity of the World Bank's client countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and South-East Asian regions. His prior work at the World Bank included research, policy and operational work in urban development, poverty and income distribution, and social protection. He received a BA degree from Seoul National University in 1982, an MA in economics from Syracuse University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University in 1991.
Jaewoo Lee (Ph.D. MIT 1992; B.A. Seoul National University 1985) is Deputy Division Chief of the Open-Economy Macroeconomics Division in the International Monetary Fund Research Department. He joined the IMF in 1998 from the University of California at Irvine where he was teaching, and worked as a desk economist for Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines prior to joining the Research Department. He published widely on macroeconomic issues ranging from investment and current account dynamics to exchange rates and international reserves, in academic journals including Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and American Economic Review. He recently contributed to the IMF Staff Position Note on Global Fiscal Stimulus.
Kang-Won Wayne Lee, P.E., F. ASCE is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of Rhode Island. He served as CVE Director of Graduate Studies and Chairman. He also served as Chairman of the URI Research Council, and a Faculty Senate Executive Committee member. Prof. Lee is a founder of the RI Transportation Research Center (TRC), the recipient of a $12 million research grant under the TEA21. Prof. Lee earned a B.S. degree from Seoul National University. Following two years of consulting work as a civil engineer for two American consulting firms, he earned a M.S. degree from Rutgers Univ. After briefly working as a highway construction inspector for the NJDOT, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He began his higher education teaching career at the King Saud University, and joined the URI faculty later. Prof Lee’s research interests are focused in Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure and Systems (ITIS) and Smart Green Highways. He is a founding member of the NEUTC at MIT and the NETC. He also initiated a joint research program between URI and RIDOT. He is a founder of the ASCE BMC and served as Chair, and served as President of the RI Section. Prof. Lee is a member of TRB, ASTM, AAPT, ITE and ASEE. He serves as a paper reviewer for the ASCE Jrnls., TRR, ASTM Jrnl., Australian Road Research, Canadian Jrnl., and other technical publications and conferences. He is a member of XE, and received several awards including the URI Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards, and RIDOT Meritorious Service Award. Prof. Lee has contributed to more than 150 publications in the areas of construction materials, pavement, transportation and civil engineering, and has delivered more than 150 technical presentations. He served as KSEA President, and is a NAEK member.
Yong Nak Lee is President of HTRD, Ltd. He has held this position since 1986. His professional experience includes research and development in Heat Exchangers, Borg-Warner Corp. Dr. Lee received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University; Postgraduate Training in Power Engineering from Royal College of Science & Technology, Scotland; a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois-Champaign. Dr. Lee has published numerous research reports and papers in the leading Journals. He has been awarded 21 patents, and 5 are pending. Dr. Lee has received numerous awards including “Dong Baek Jang” from Korean government. He was awarded an “Entrepreneurship Award” for his contribution to High-Tech and its Applications in 2004 and is expected to receive a second award from the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) on July 18, 2009 during the UKC-2009 in Raleigh, NC.
James M. Lister is the Vice President of the Korea Economic Institute, having joined the institute in January 2000 after retiring from the U.S. Treasury following a 33-year career. He was a member of the Senior Executive Service from 1986, serving as Director of the Office of Foreign Exchange Operations from 1985 to 1992 and as Director of the Office of International Monetary Policy from late 1992 until late 1999. These assignments entailed responsibilities inter alia for coordinating and accounting for exchange market intervention and other operations involving the Exchange Stabilization Fund, advising on U.S. relations with the International Monetary Fund, and supporting senior Treasury officials’ participation in meetings of the Group of Seven (and related subgroups) and the Group of Ten. Mr. Lister is the recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Rank award. Previous assignments included positions in the Office of International Banking, the U.S. Mission to the OECD (Paris), and the U.S. Embassy in Germany, and as desk officer for various countries. From 1966–1968 he was on military furlough from the Treasury Department, serving on active duty in the U.S. Army (Lieutenant, Field Artillery), including 13 months’ service in Korea with a field artillery batallion. He received a B.A. from Bowdoin College (Economics Major) in 1965 and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin (Monetary and Financial Theory) in 1966.
Mark Manyin is a specialist in Asian affairs with the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a non-partisan agency that provides information and analysis to members of the U.S. Congress and their staff. At CRS, Mr. Manyin’s general area of expertise is U.S. foreign economic policy toward East Asia, particularly Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. He also tracks the evolution of terrorism in Southeast Asia. He has written academic articles on Vietnam and Korea, taught courses in East Asian international relations, worked as a business consultant, and lived in Japan for a total of three years.
Shawn McHale is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the Elliott School for International Affairs, The George Washington University. His publications include Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam (University of Hawaii Press, 2004); and "Freedom, Violence, and the Struggle over the Public Realm in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1958," in Naissance d'un Etat-Parti: le Viet Nam depuis 1945 (Les Indes Savantes, 2004). He recently returned from a year in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays faculty fellowship. Born in Southeast Asia, he received his B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Cornell University (1995).
John Merrill is chief of the Northeast Asia Division, Buireau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State. He is the author of “Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War, 1945-1950” and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Merrill has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Delaware and a M.A. in Asian Studies from Harvard. He is Professorial Lecturer at SAIS.
Soon Paik is a Senior Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor-Bureau of Labor Statistics. He taught economics, econometrics, statistics, and management at the University of District of Columbia as an Associate Professor. He worked as a project developer of the Construction Labor Demand System in the Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee, and as an Associate Director of the Construction Resources Analysis and a Research Professor of the University of Tennessee. He serves as a Senior Economic Consultant of the United Nations Development Programme for the Taebaek Iron Development Project in the Republic of Korea.He graduated from the Law College of the Seoul National University (LLD), and obtained M.A. degrees in economics from the Korea University and from the Ohio University and a Ph.D. in economics from the West Virginia University. His major interests are in the international economics, South and North Korean economies, economic issues of the Korean
unification, resources and labor economics, economic model-building, statistical analysis, etc. He published numerous professional articles in the various academic journals, and led many seminars and paper presentations in the professional societies including American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, and others, on the subjects concerning international economics, South and North Korean economies, energy economics, construction economics, international labor economics, and other related topics. He has been working as an economic columnist of the Chosun Ilbo Washington and of the KNN radio. He served as a Vice President of the Korean American Economic Association and as a President of the Korean Economic Society in Washington, D.C. His civic activities included a President of the Knoxville Korean Association, a President of the Seoul National University Alumni Association in Washington, D.C.
Jong-Hee Park has 30 years of experience in Energy Technology R&D. His specific research areas include engineering and processing policies of fossil, nuclear energy, High T advanced liquid-metal cooling fusion energy systems under US DOE, US NRC, and International Program-ITER, U.S. industries Sr. Science Advisor. Dr. Park received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Marquette University in 1985; an M.S. degree in Physical Chemistry from Sogang University in 1978; and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Sogang University in 1974. Dr. Park is currently Senior Science Advisor on Fossil/Nuclear Energy, Alion Science & Technology. He has held this position since 2006. From 1985 to 2006, Dr. Park was Sr. Material Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, [Enrico Fermi Scholar]. From 1985 to 1987, he worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago/Argonne National Lab-U.S. DOE, and from 1981 to 1985, as a Graduate Research Assistant, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. From 1981 to 1985, he worked as a summer researcher: U.S. Air Force/Honeywell (1981-2), GE, (1983), and PNNL, (83-85). From 1978 to 1981, Dr. Park served as R & D Staff on Missile NHK Agency for Defense Development in Korea. From 1974 to 1978, he taught and conducted research at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. Dr. Park’s publication includes CVD Handbook (Editor of, ASM-international), 6-US patents (Fossil, Fusion, Nuclear), near 50-inventions in the professional area US-DOE, US-NRC, industry. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 publications on Energy Technology, Materials Engineering & Science, Physical Chemistry, Metallurgy, nano fluid, PWR corrosion NPP, thermal hydraulic for NPP safety (US NRC-GSI-191) & Ceramics.
Soon Won Park is an adjunct professor on modern Korean and East Asian History in the History Department, George Mason University. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Korean History (1985) from Harvard University. She is the author of Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999) and “Beneath the Colonial Industrial Growth: Urbanization of Korean Labor,” in Colonial Modernity in Korea, Shin Gi-Wook and Michael Robinson, eds. (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999). She also co-edited Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience (Routledge, 2006). Currently, her research interest goes to the themes of the politics of remembrance and history problems in Northeast Asia and the socio-cultural aspect of colonial modernity in the interwar Korea focusing on the year 1929.
Michael J. Pettid is Associate Professor of Korean Studies and has taught Korean literature, culture, and history at State University of New York at Binghamton since 2003. Prior to going to Binghamton he taught at the Academy of Korean Studies and Ewha Women’s University in Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Korean literature from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Hawaii. He is the author of two books—Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History (Reaktion Books, 2008) and Unyŏng-jŏn: A Love Affair at the Royal Palace of Chosŏn Korea (East Asian Institute at University of California, Berkeley, 2009)—and co-editor of two volumes—New Visions of Women in a Confucian Society: Confucianism and Women in Late Chosŏn Korea (under review, SUNY Press) and Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times (being written/ edited). His research specializations are Chosŏn period literature, women’s lives in Chosŏn, folk customs, and daily life history.
Ambassador Charles L. (Jack) Pritchard is the President of the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in Washington. Prior to joining KEI, he was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC from September 2003 until February 2006. At Brookings, he focused on U.S. policy toward North Korea as well as the evolving nature of the United States-Japan foreign and security relationship. Ambassador Pritchard served as ambassador and special envoy for negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and United States representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization in the administration of President George W. Bush from April 2001 until September 2003. Previously, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
and Senior Director for Asian Affairs in the administration of President William J. Clinton. During the Clinton administration, Ambassador Pritchard was also the Director of Asian Affairs in the National Security Council and deputy chief negotiator for the Four Party Peace Talks, which aimed at reducing the tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Ambassador Pritchard is a former United States Army officer and attaché in Tokyo, Japan. He received a B.A. in political science from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia; an M.A. in international studies from the University of Hawaii; and a diploma from the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. He is the recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.
Chad Rector is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University. His Ph.D. is from the University of California at San Diego. His recent book, Federations: The Political Dynamics of Cooperation, examines the decisions states sometime make to give up their independence by creating federal unions. His work has also appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Comparative Political Studies.
Richard Shin is a Senior Vice President at Economists Incorporated, which is a premier economic consulting firm in the fields of law and economics, public policy, and business strategy. He received his Ph.D. in economics and an M.A. in economics and statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at the Economic Analysis Group of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice and in the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. While at the antitrust agencies, Dr. Shin worked on numerous antitrust investigations and regulatory matters. Dr. Shin's research interests span a broad range of subject matters, including applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization, regulation, telecommunication industry, and econometrics. He has a strong background in mathematics and statistics and has examined various aspects of costs of operations, profitability, and risk assessment. These projects include cost function estimation, examination of large datasets, and complicated calculations and estimation analysis. Dr. Shin has published articles that relate to regulation, telecommunications, econometrics, and health economics.
Jaimie Sung (Ph.D., the Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor of the School of Industrial Management at Korea University of Technology and Education and a Visiting Professor at the George Washington University (Economics Department). After graduating from Ehwa Woman’s University (B.A. and M.A. in Family Management), she has received Ph.D. degree (Family Resource Management) from the Ohio State University (1997). From 1997 to 1999, she served as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont. She has published a series of study on self-employment on Korean Journal of Labor Economics and Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy since 2001. Some of them are: “Economic Performance of Self-employment and Determinants of the Subjective Evaluation” (2002), “Determinants of Duration of Self-employment” (2003), “Self-employment as a Bridge Job” (2004), “Determinants of the Work-Leisure Decision of the Aged” (2006), “Measurement of Risk Tolerance and Its Role in Choosing Self-employment” (2007).
Hyangsoon Yi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She received a Ph.D in English from Penn State University, with a minor in film studies. Her dissertation is entitled “The Traveler in Irish Drama.” Her current research interests include: Buddhist aesthetics in Korean literature and film, and history of Korean Buddhist nuns. She is the author of Piguni wa Han’guk munhak (Seoul: Yemunsŏwŏn, 2008), which was selected as one of the Outstanding Books in the Field of Basic Sciences in 2009 by the National Academy of Sciences, Korea. She has published extensively on Buddhist nuns of Chosŏn Korea, postmodernism in Korean cinema, and itinerancy in modern Irish literature. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Korean Buddhist films.
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