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BECK, Peter; has moved from Korea Economic Institute to the International Crisis Group as the North East Asis Project Director.
CHANG, Myong-Hun; has been promoted to full professor and will serve as the chiarman of the department from August 23, 2004.
CHO, Whewon; has retired effective June 30, 2004. "Although I was still passionate about teaching and other professorial tasks, I thought after 41 years (and after reaching the magic age of 65), it was time to retire."
CHOI, Kyongwook; An Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Ohio University, has joined the KAEA.
KIM, Jongsung ; has benn promoted to the rank of associate professor at Bryant University. Congratulations.
KO, Haksoo; I am leaving New York and moving to Seoul, Korea, to join the law firm of Shin & Kim. I will continue to work at my current firm until April 21 and will start working at my new firm from May 20. Here is my new contact information:
Shin & Kim, Ace Tower, 4th Floor , 1-170 Soonhwa-dong, Chung-gu, Seoul 100-712, Korea , www.shinkim.com
KIM, Sunwoong; has been promoted to full professor in 2004 and became the department chairman.
MOAK, Samuel: has passed away a year and half ago. He has been the member of the KAEA from the very beginning.
(Note: I learned about his death just now, October 13. Hwang)
NORLAND, Marcus; With the resumption this week of the Six Party Talks it may be worthwhile to review the current state of US-DPRK economic relations with an eye toward what, if any, economic carrots that the US government could offer the DPRK to encourage a diplomatic solution. The two op-eds linked below which were originally published in the Joongang Ilbo briefly review the legal framework of US-DPRK economic relations, with the first piece focusing on trade relations and the second article examining broader issues of economic diplomacy. A theme that emerges are the constraints imposed on US policy by the linkage of economic policy to non-economic objectives. Ironically, from the current South Korean standpoint, these linkages have often been promoted by "progressive" political forces in the US. Given trends in US politics these sorts of linkages are likely to remain relevant, and indeed expand, in the future. http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/noland0604.htm http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/noland0604-2.htm
RIEW, John: In October, I happened to be at the U. of Tokyo campus on a seminar presentation. There at the Faculty of Economics, I met Professor Yun Jeong Choi, native of Korea and a recent appointee. When introduced to her, I was somewhat at loss not knowing what to say or what language to use, in the presence of others, and ended up saying little in that first encounter. Later on, we met several times in group setting and I much appreciated her warm welcome and hospitality. Professor Choi (Yonsei graduate) completed her Ph D. at Cornell and this semester teaches Applied Industrial Organization (lectures delivered in English). She seemed to be enjoying and doing very well interacting with other members, all older and taller, of the faculty. I was very impressed by her poise, modesty, and, not the least, fluency in English. I could not help but feeling great satisfaction and pride seeing the presence of a young Korean-born economist at the famed U. of Tokyo and noting further of her role (rather historical) undoing the age-old tradition of all-male economics faculty in that university.
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