The nominating committee selected the following candidates for each position:

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

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.

In addition to three regular sessions, KAEA-in conjunction with Korean Economic Association (KEA)-plans to hold a few WORKSHOPS at the Atlanta ASSA meetings. They are intended to increase the interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants working on various issues, including those related to Korea.

The workshops will be held on January 5, starting at 10:00 AM right after the KAEA panel discussion session. If you are interested, please submit completed papers to Professor Hyeongwoo Kim at gmmkim@gmail.com. Submission deadline is October 23, 2009. (Decision will be made within a week; only accepted papers will be notified.)

To submit a paper for the workshop, one has to be (or become) a lifetime KAEA member or paid his/her annual membership dues for 2008 and 2009 at the time of submission. This requirement is waived for the KEA members.

Please note that these are not official ASSA-sponsored sessions and thus will not be included in the ASSA program book. There is no financial support for the participants.

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:

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 Korea Economic Institute (KEI) is issuing a call for papers for the next round of its Academic Paper Series—a program to generate monthly academic pappers followed by a public discussion of topical issues related to the Korean Peninsula. KEI has commissioned thirty papers in this series so far, on a variety of topics. To read the individual papers, and learn more about the series, please refer to the KEI website: http://www.keia.org/paper_series.php.

KEI is now seeking proposals for up to six more papers to be released between January and June on original subjects of current interest to serious Korea watchers. Proposal topics should correspond with the interests and expertise of the author, and the description should demonstrate confidence that they would make good additions to this well-rounded series. Papers must be written exclusively for KEI, i.e., not have been presented or published previously in any form.

Papers will need to be approximately 4,000­5,000 words in lenggth. KEI will edit, publish, and distribute finished papers as KEI Academic Papers to over 2,500 government officials, think tank experts, and scholars around the United States and the world. KEI will also collate and publish all of the KEI Academic Papers in a single volume on an annual basis. Papers presented next spring will become chapters in volume IV of On Korea, which will be published in the beginning of 2011.

Authors of papers selected by KEI for the KEI Academic Paper Series will receive an honorarium of $1500 upon completion of the editorial process. KEI will arrange a mutually convenient date for each author to participate in a discussion at KEI conference facilities in Washington with an interested audience—Korea analysts, government officials, and journalistss—of his/her selected paper, preferably during the monthh KEI releases the paper. KEI will provide domestic travel and accommodation expenses for the discussion program.

Interested authors should submit the following information by Monday, November 30, 2009:

• Full Name
• Academic/Institutional Affiliation
• CV
• Paper TopTopic Proposal, including a brief description and proposed outline
• Earliest/latest date paper can be available

KEI will inform the authors of the accepted paper topics on or about December 4, 2009, with the expectation that the initial paper would be distributed in late January. The author of this initial paper will be expected to transmit a first draft to KEI by January 12, 2010. Authors of papers scheduled for distribution later in the year will be separately notified of the required submission dates.

KEI will repeat the call for Academic Papers in or around June 2010 for publication in the fall 2010.

Please submit your paper proposal to publication@keia.org. For any questions related to the Academic Paper series, please contact Nicole Finnemann, Director, Research & Academic Affairs, at nmf@keia.org.

KAEA has recently made an agreement with Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI, http://www.seriworld.org/). According to 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.

We are now accepting applications for those who will write articles for the April, July and October issues to be published in 2010. If you are interested, please email your application to Professor Yoonbai Kim at ykim01@uky.edu by December 21, 2009

GUIDELINES for SERI Quarterly ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS

Authors are requested to kindly adhere to the following:

1. Originality
Article contributions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
2. Format
• Article contributions should be written in American English.
• The length of the article should be approximately 3,000 to 4,000 words.
• If/when used, footnotes should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style.
• All tables/charts/graphs must provide a source.
• A short abstract of less than 100 words should precede the article.
• A list of 5 to 10 keywords should follow the article.
• Author's bio of less than 100 words should follow the article and include:
• Educational background and degrees
• Current and/or past career posts
• Research/professional interests
• Recent publications
3. Submission
Article contributions should be submitted as MS Word document files.