The Executive Committee is pleased to inform you that this year's nominating committee has been formed. Its members are:

The committee will search and nominate the President Elect and the members of the 2010 Executive Committee. If you have suggestions for good candidates, please email Professor Soo-Bin Park for PE candidates and Professor Sunwoong Kim for candidates for Vice President and Treasurer. Secretary General has a 3-year term. The current SG, Dr. Jinill Kim will serve another year. Please email your suggestions by October 10.

The term for Professor Hong Y. Park of the Advisory Board is expiring at the end of this year. By convention, the AB nominates its replacement candidate. If you have any suggestions, please email them to the chair of AB, Prof Hong Y Park (hyp@svsu.edu).

Thank you for your support of KAEA
Yoonbai Kim
President, KAEA

KAEA has recently made an agreement with Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI, http://www.seriworld.org/). According to the MOU, selected KAEA members will contribute an article to each SERI Quarterly - to be published in January, April, July, and October. Compensation is $1500.00 per article, to be paid when the submitted article is approved for publication.

The Quarterly targets general audience within the fields of business and economics. Most but not all articles are related to current issues in macro, finance, technology, and international areas. More information about the scope and topics of articles that have been published in the previous issues can be found at http://www.seriworld.org/seriquarterly/wldQMain.html.

KAEA is now accepting applications for those who will write articles for the 4 issues to be published in 2010. If you are interested, please email your application to Professor Yoonbai Kim at ykim01@uky.edu by October 6, 2009: (1) a cover letter indicating which issue of the Quarterly you prefer to publish, (2) your CV, (3) one or two writing samples, and (4) a 500-1,000 word abstract of the article you are proposing to write. Your application will be reviewed by the committee selected from SERI and KAEA. Those who wish to publish in the January 2010 issue should submit—instead of an abstract mentioned in (4)—an article that is either completed or near completion.

Applications will be accepted only from the lifetime KAEA members or those who have paid the membership dues for both 2008 and 2009 prior to submission. In the case of coauthored articles, at least one author must be a member.

The KAEA is soliciting nominations for two awards: the Young Scholar Award and the Maekyung-KAEA Economist Award. Award Committee members are Tai-Yeong Chung (chair), Yongsung Chang, and Sokbae Simon Lee. Please send a letter of nomination with supporting materials to the award committee chair:

E-mail nomination is preferred. Deadline for nomination is October 20, 2009. Please refer to the Award web page for a detailed description of the award and the nomination procedure.

Registration and hotel reservations for the January 2010 ASSA meetings open September 15th. Headquarters is the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The Hilton Atlanta and the Hyatt Regency are both connected directly to the Marriott. KAEA will have 3 sessions as usual, and some workshops. See the preliminary program by clicking on ASSA/KAEA PROGRAM.

The KAEA organized only one session at the Southern Economic Association Meeting, down from the usual 2-3 sessions. To see the program, click on SEA/KAEA PROGRAM.

The KAEA is very pleased to announce that it will provide a financial support for Korean doctoral students in Economics who will participate in the job market at the 2010 ASSA meetings in Atlanta.

Eligibility - The student must be a Ph.D. candidate in economics at a university in the U.S. or Canada, who is expected to graduate by August 2010 and actively participates in the job market this year. The student who is fully funded by any other source of funds or received the KAEA travel support before will not be qualified. The local students from the Altanta, GA area who do not plan to stay overnight are not eligible. The estimated travel costs for an applicant should be more than $300. The applicant should be a KAEA regular/junior member, or join KAEA as a regular/junior member when he/she applies for the scholarship. (See KAEA membership in the KAEA Webpage)

Travel subsidy - The KAEA plans to pay a partial travel subsidy to each student. The exact amount of subsidy (not exceeding $300) will be determined depending on the number of qualified applicants. The maximum number of awards is 30. The student should pick up the check in person at the Atlanta meetings in January 2010. Specific time and place for the pick-up will be e-mailed to each of the recipients by December 10, 2009.

To apply - Please send your name, e-mail address, telephone number, address, name of your university, field of specialization, and the (expected) date of the final defense of your thesis (month and year) to: