We all feel sorrow at the loss of our long time member, Dr. Gill-Chin Lim. He unexpectedly passed away on February 9, 2005, at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, after a serious car accident on the previous day. President Kyoo Hong Kim and Professor Sunwoom Kim at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee attended the memorial service which was held at 3 p.m. on February 13 (Sunday) at Gorsline-Runciman Co. Funeral Directors and Counselors. President Kim reported on February 14: I attended the memorial service yesterday. Our member, Professor Sunwoong Kim of UW-Milwaukee also was there to participate in a sad, moving memorial service with Dr. Lim's relatives, and so many friends, colleagues, students, and dignitaries. I have hand-delivered (but not read) the eulogies written by Professors Bong Joon Yoon, and Yongcheol Shin to the organizer and expressed our association's deepest sorrow. Today, Dr. Lim's body will be flown to Korea under his younger brother's care, where the funeral will take place. While Dr. Lim was the dean of the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, he arranged for an exchange agreement between the KAEA and the KDI School in 2000. You may view the document of the agreement and some photos in the NewsLetter 09/2000.

This is the short biography of Dr. Gill-Chin Lim posted at the web site of Program on Humanistic Globalization of which he has been the director. Please click on VITAE for his vitae. Gill-Chin Lim, Ph.D. Director of Program on Humanistic Globalization Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA Gill-Chin Lim is MSU Endowed Professor of Asian Studies in a Global Context and Professor of Geography and Planning at Michigan State University. He was educated at Seoul National University (BSE), Harvard (MCP) and Princeton (Ph.D.). He published and lectured on topics of strategic planning, comparative development, and public policy analysis. He is on the editorial board for Journal of Urban Arts and Sciences and an international adviser for the Environmental Impact Assessment Review. He worked as a consultant to a number of international and national organizations including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development. Currently, he is the President of the Consortium on Development Studies, and Co-President of Korea Federation for Environmental Movement. He was the Dean of International Studies and Programs at Michigan State University (1991-1995) and the founding Dean at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management (1998-2001). He is currently Distinguished Institute Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management.

We pray for your comfort We pray for your peace. May God know how To keep you in comfort and peace. The respect and love we have for you Is deeper than you can imagine. You were our strength, you were our supporter. You were our colleague. Please rest. And know that we will always love and respect you. HH

I am very sorry to hear this tragic news. This is more so since I've recently been to the funeral of my farther who passed away on 24 December last year. I've studied my Ph.D. at MSU during 1986-91, and I still remember meeting him with other Ph.D. students at his home a couple of times. Even at that time we were very proud of his achievements and since then I've been told that he has made a great contribution to setting up both academic and non-academic connection between Korean and American at MSU and/or elsewhere. All his works will be heartfeltedly remembered for long. I wish I could be at his memorial service. Please accept my deepest sympathy at this great loss. May I wish him at heaven in peace! Yongcheol Shin Professor in Applied Econometrics Economics, LUBS University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

My Friend Gill-Chin For a long time Professor Gill-Chin Lim and I have known about each other from our mutual friends who attended Seoul National University, College of Engineering, or did graduate work in America with him. But it was in the mid-1990s at the Allied Social Sciences Association conference when we personally met for the first time. The first impression I had of him was an ambitious and serious person. I remember our discussion on the North Korean nuclear threat. We encountered again in the Korea-America Economic Association conference, "Two Koreas: Towards One Economy," held in Washington, D.C., October 4 - 5, 1999. The conference atmosphere was formal and subdued, which was expected from the gravity of the topic and from the presence of dignitaries, American and Korean. I was a discussant for his paper "North-South Cooperation for Food Supply: Demographic Analysis and Policy Directions." But the program brochure listed a wrong title by mistake. Obviously the conference host failed to correct the earlier tentative title when they received his completed paper. Partly to animate the conference atmosphere and also to tease seemingly ever-serious Gill-Chin, I started my discussion saying, "I know Gill-Chin Lim. Professor Lim is a friend of mine. But the title of his paper is different from what he presented today," which I borrowed from the 1988 Lloyd Bentsen - Dan Quayle debate. That's when I heard his big laughter after which he explained how the title was mixed up. We have become close friends ever since, calling each other occasionally. Gill-Chin was enterprising and creative, founding many valuable organizations including the Program on Humanistic Globalization. Just among many of his accomplishments, the members of the Korea-America Economic Association remember that he initiated the 2000 KDI School of Public Policy and Management -the KAEA Cooperation Agreement as the founding Dean of the School. With magnanimity he went beyond himself to better others, the society, and the world. In economic terms, he was an exemplary public good. He has accomplished what he wanted to, living life fully. I as others miss the magnanimous Professor Lim who so soon departed us. As he adored poems, passages from Thomas Moore's "The Last Rose" ring in my ears: When true hearts lie withered And fond ones are flown Oh! Who would inhabit This bleak world alone? Gill-Chin, peace be with you on your journey to eternity. February 11, 2005 Bong Joon Yoon Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton