If you have suggestions, please direct them to the chair of the committee at iha@wcu.edu.

The 2006 Nominating Committee has selected the following nominees for the Executive Committee for 2007 and the current Advisory Board selected a nominee for the Board member to replace Professor Kwan Suk Kim whose term expires this year. Click on the name to see their short curriculum vita.

Time Table: Alternative candidates may be submitted to the Nominating Committee by 3% or more of eligible members within 10 days of this announcement, i.e., by October 19, 2006. Ballots will be mailed out to eligible voters a few days after the closing of nomination process. Ballots must be returned and received by the teller within 30 days of mailing ballots.

Information about the academic sessions and other programs of the KAEA at the ASSA meeting in Chicago in January 5-7, 2007, is posted at ASSA/KAEA Program. You can find the paper that Dr. Jung Taik Hyun, President of KDI, will present at the Panel Discussion on January 7 by clicking on Paper by Jung Taik Hyun. Papers by other presenters are

There will be a Maekyung forum scheduled from 8:30-10 p.m. in room Horner, Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel. This forum is similar to the round table discussion (Jwadamhoi) for the Maeil Business Daily that we have had in previous years, but it has a different format and open to the public. The title of this year?s forum is ?Prospects of the US economy and its impact on Korea: monetary, exchange rate and trade policies.? We have three presenters:

Professor Semoon Chang, Director of KAEA Research Institute, has contacted numerous universities and invited Korean graduate student in economics to join the KAEA and to apply for financial support for the job market trip to the ASSA meeting in Chicago next January. This campaign has been a great success.

Twenty five students who will receive the travel support from the KAEA in the amount of $300 are listed below.

 

Cha	Kyungsoo	U. of Virginia	Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Chung	Woong?Tae	U. of Colorado Boulder	Industrial Economics, Econometrics
Doh	Taeyoung	U. of Pennsylvania	Econometrics/Macroeconomics/Finance
Jeon	Yongbok	U. of Utah	Economic Growth/Applied Economics
Jung	Han Joon, Michael	Pennsylvania State U.	Game Theory/IO
Kang	Joong Shik	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	Macroeconomics(Open Economy)/International Finance
Kim	Chong Uk	U. of Oregon	International Economics/Macro/Applied Econometrics
Kim	Dongsoo	George Washington U.	Urban & Regional/International Economics
Kim	HyungGun	U. of Missouri - Columbia	Public Economics
Kim	JaeWhan	U. of Utah	Labor/Health/Econometrics
Kim	Jiyoung	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	Empirical IO
Kim	Ju-Young	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	Public Economics, Health Economics
Kim	Jung Wook	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	Applied Micro. I.O.
Kim	Minsuk	UCLA	International Economics, Macroeconomics
Kim	Young-Joo	U. of Wisconsin - Madison	Public Economics, Education & Labor Economics
Lee	Chanyoung	Iowa State U.	IO, Human Resources
Lee	Doo-Hee	Clemson U.	Regional Economic Development
Lee	Sunglyong (Jackie)	U. of Missouri - Columbia	Monetary Economics
Noh	Hyoungsik	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Applied Micro Theory
Park	Minjung	Stanford U.	IO/Applied Econometrics/Applied Micro
Park	Sung Yong	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Econometrics
Ra	Hee-Ryang	U. of Hawaii at Manoa	International Economics
Seol	Youn	U. of Missouri - Columbia	Econometrics, Monetary Economics
Shin	Youngki	U. of Rochester	Econometrics, Labor Economics, Applied Micro
Yum	Soohyun	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	IO Internet Auction

The following is the report by President Suk H. Kim about the SEA/KAEA meeting.

"I have just returned from the SEA convention held in Charleston, SC, during which the KAEA had two sessions. The KAEA sessions were very successful because the attendance in both sessions was pretty good and paper presenters attracted a consideral number of questions and comments from the audience. More than half of the audience were non-Korean Americans who accounted for practically all of the questions and comments from the floor. I think these people attended KAEA sessions because they had a special interest in Korean and East Asian economic issues. On behalf of the KAEA, I wish to express my thanks to Dr. Semoon Chang for organizing these successful KAEA sessions at the the SEA convention. Dr. Chang is one of the most unselfish men I have ever known in my entire life. On the top of all this time and energy he has spent on these KAEA session for many months, he has refused to get any financial support from the KAEA except for one dinner."

Pictures taken at the meeting - Click on Slide Show