President Yung Y. Yang appointed professors Sung Y. Kwack (chair), Kwan S. Kim, and Semoon Chang to serve as 2003 Nominating Committee members. The Nominating Committee shall prepare the official ballot containing the names of candidates it selected and any other persons nominated by three percent (3%) or more of the membership. Please contact the chair of the committee if you wish to recommend a member for the 2003 Executive Committee.

Addendum (October 1, 2002) The nominating committee selected following nominees for the executive committee for 2003:

• President-elect:   Hong Youl Park -Saginaw Valley University (1987(VP),1995(SG))
• Vice President:    Sunwoong Kim - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2000(SG), 2001(SG))
• Secretary General:   Yoonbai Kim - University of Kentucky (2002(SG))
• Treasurer:          Sei-Wan Kim - California State University - Fullerton

The 10th joint conference with the KEA (Korean Economic Association) was held on the beautiful campus of Yonsei University, on August 12-13, 2002. It was also an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the KEA. Thirty KAEA members presented papers among about 70 papers presented at the conference. An active participation of the KAEA junior members and of the members outside the U.S. were particularly noticeable. Two members from Singapore, two from the U.K., and one from Spain also attended the conference. Besides the paper presenters, all of the executive committee members of KAEA attended the conference. KAEA members chaired four sessions including President Yang's chairing of the first plenary session, and discussed six papers in various sessions.

The KAEA would like to thank Professors Changyeong Chung, Jang Hee Yoo, Baiknam Sung, Dosung Chung and other officers of the KEA and the Seoul conference committee for their hard work and hospitality.

Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) has sponsored the second biannual symposium with the KAEA, which was held on August 14, 2002 in Seoul, Korea. The main theme was "Globalization of Capital Markets and New Financial Architecture in East Asia." President Yang delivered the welcoming remarks. Four papers were selected to be presented at the symposium

The annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association (SEA) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans Hotel, November 24 - 26, 2002. As in the past, Professor H. Youn Kim at Western Kentucky University has organized the KAEA session. The preliminary program is as below:

Session: Applied Economic Issues

Chairperson

Papers:

The 2003 convention of the Allied Social Science Association will be held in Washington, DC, January 3-5, 2003. The preliminary program of the KAEA is posted at PROGRAM.

The KAEA invites manuscripts for a conference on "Aging Population, Emerging China and Sustainable Growth in Korea" jointly organized by the KDI and the KAEA.

Conference Date and Location: July 12 (Saturday), 2003 at the KDI.
Depending on the number of papers colleted, the Conference may be extended to two days. (July 11th~12th)

Main Theme: "Aging Population, Emerging China and Sustainable Growth in Korea"

The conference particularly seeks research papers on

Submission deadline: March 31, 2003
Note: Only completed papers will be accepted. An abstract will not be accepted.

Submission: Please submit your papers by email with file attachment to both Professor Hae-shin Hwang (hwang@econmail.tamu.edu) and Dr. Sang-Dal Shim (sdshim@kdi.re.kr) by March 31, 2003. We will accept only completed papers. Abstracts without completed papers will not be accepted. Professor Hwang and Dr. Sang-Dal Shim at KDI will jointly review submitted papers and select 10 papers that will be invited. To be selected in the program, the KAEA annual membership fee has to be paid for year 2002 and 2003.

The KAEA invites manuscripts for a conference on "Regional Financial Cooperation" organized by the Korean Finance Association jointly with the KAEA.

Conference Date and Location: May 22 (Thursday) - 23 (Friday), 2003, at the Seoul National University.

Main Theme: "Regional Financial Cooperation"

Submission: Please submit your papers by email with file attachment to Professor Yoonbai Kim (ykim01@uky.edu) by March 15, 2003. We will accept only completed papers. Abstracts without completed papers will not be accepted. 10 papers will be selected and invited. To be selected in the program, the KAEA annual membership fee has to be paid for year 2002 and 2003.

The KAEA invites manuscripts for a conference on "Labor Market Issues in the Information Age" organized jointly by the Korea Labor Institute and the KAEA.

Conference Date: July 9, 2003

Main Theme: "Labor Market Issues in the Information Age"

Submission: Please submit your papers by email with file attachment to Professor Bong Joon Yoon (yoon@binghamton.edu) by March 31, 2003. We will accept only completed papers. Abstracts without completed papers will not be accepted. Three papers will be selected and invited. To be selected in the program, the KAEA annual membership fee has to be paid for year 2002 and 2003.

Seoul Journal of Economics was initially published by Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University since 1988. As from 2000, SJE is now jointly published by Institute of Economic Research, Korea Money and Finance Association, Korean Labor Economic Association, and Korea Development Economics Association. SJE is a quarterly journal designed to carry both theoretical and empirical articles in all fields of Economics. SJE especially welcomes articles and book reviews dealing with various aspects of the economies in Asia.

SJE has been registered as class A academic journal and, therefore, has been awarded three-year program by Korea Research Foundation (KRF) to promote academic interaction with foreign scholars and Korean economists abroad. Under the program SJE is entitled to invite three foreign scholars and/or Korean scholars abroad per year to SJE Special Lecture Series. The invitee is supposed to give a seminar and submit the unpublished seminar paper to SJE. SJE will provide the invitee with an honorarium of 2,000 US dollars, an economy-class round trip ticket and 3-day accommodation expenses.

I hope KAEA members could apply for the program or recommend your colleagues to apply for the program. The editorial board of SJE will select invitees on the basis of recent publication records.

If you are interested in the program, I would appreciate it if you could provide us by e-mail with the following information:

• Academic resume with recent publication list.
• Abstract of the seminar paper which would be published by SJE after revision.
• Preferred time of Special Lecture at Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University.

With regards,

An increasing number of organizations are seeking to get more sessions while new organizations attempt (often unsuccessfully) to enter ASSA and take away with some. As the total number of sessions is fixed and the KAEA is being one of the smallest if not the smallest organizations, we face the constant threat of losing the sessions. We lost one session this year. To keep the remaining three sessions, it is imperative for members to attend KAEA-sponsored sessions and to pay their dues. The number of due-paying members is ever more important to keep the allotted sessions at the ASSA annual convention. Please send your membership due for 2002 to KAEA treasurer: