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Messages from the Presidents

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​Distinguished guests, eminent scholars, ladies and gentlemen,

On behalf of the KEA (Korean Economic Association), I would like to welcome you all.

This year the whole world has been occupied with fighting the pandemic which began to take hold in January. This is an entirely new challenge and we still do not know much about the pandemic. Most countries are trying hard to manage their economies while keeping control of the pandemic, which is a difficult juggling act. We may have to find a way to live with it since the pandemic may be here to stay for the future.

The theme of the KER conference this year is “Globalization and the Korean Economy: Challenges in the Post Covid-19 Era.”  The Korean economy is subject to many problems including a slowdown of the economic growth rate and aging and polarization in the population. The international economic environment is more hostile since most countries are busy protecting their domestic economies. The pandemic makes the problem far more complicated and yet also urgent. Economic research on these issues is desperately needed to help economies handle these problems.

However, I am optimistic that we will overcome these difficulties as we have done many times in the past. In order to achieve this, we must make efforts to understand the sources of these problems before finding their solutions. I hope that this conference will provide the platform to address the problems and I’d like to invite you all to participate in the endeavor.
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I would like to personally thank all participants and I wish you an enjoyable conference.

In Ho Lee
President, The Korean Economic Association
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I am pleased to welcome you to the 2020 KER conference both personally and on behalf of the Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA, www.kaea.org). This conference is jointly organized by the Korean Economic Review (KER), Korean Economic Association (KEA), and Korea-America Economic Association.

I wish to thank and congratulate the KEA President, Professor Inho Lee, and the local organizers for effectively planning and preparing for the conference in a virtual platform for the first time to overcome uncertainties and travel restrictions due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic. I also wish to thank the Program Co-Chairs, Professors Yoon-Jae Whang and Yongsung Chang, for successfully putting together an exciting program with stimulating research under the timely theme “Globalization and the Korean Economy: Challenges in the Post Covid-19 Era” that will be presented virtually in the course of the conference.

In spite of the unprecedented challenges this pandemic imposes and the subsequent departures from normal conference format without in-person presentations and face-to-face networking opportunities, I am sure this new virtual format will allow us to continue to experience an engaging and productive conference.

I look forward to meeting many of you virtually during the conference.
With warmest wishes,

Yoosoon Chang
President, KAEA
International Academic Conference Committee
Program Chairs
Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University)
Yoon-Jae Whang (Seoul National University)
Committee Members
Chamna Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Cheolsung Park (Hanyang University)
Jaebin Ahn (Seoul National University)
Jee-Hyeong Park (Seoul National University)
Minjung Park (Ewha Womans University)
Myung Hwan Seo (Seoul National University)
Sung-Ha Hwang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis)
Yoon Soo Lee (Sogang University)
The Korean Economic Review Board of Editors
Editor
Yoon-Jae Whang (Seoul National University)
Co-Editors
Jung Hur (Sogang University)
Jungmin Lee (Seoul National University)
Sokbae Lee (Columbia University)
Sunbin Kim 
(Yonsei University)
Sung-Ha Hwang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Board of Editors
Biung-Ghi Ju (Seoul National University)
Byung-Cheol Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chamna Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Changhui Kang (Chung-Ang University)
Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University)

Deockhyun Ryu (Chung-Ang University)
Dukpa Kim (Korea University)
Heejoon Han (Sungkyunkwan University)
Heonjae Song (University of Seoul)
Hyunchul Kim (Cornell University)
JaeBin Ahn (Seoul National University)
Jae Won Lee (University of Virginia)
Jay H. Hong (Seoul National University)
Jihong Lee (Seoul National University)

Jin-Hyuk Kim (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Jin Seo Cho (Yonsei University)
Jinwoo Kim (Seoul National University)
Ju Hyun Pyun (Korea Univesity)

Jung-Wook Kim (Seoul National University)
Kyoo Il Kim (Michigan State University)
Kyoungwon Seo (Seoul National University)
​Moonsung Kang (Korea University)
Myung-Hwan Seo (Seoul National University)

Namhoon Kwon (Konkuk University)
Seik Kim (Korea University)
Seokju Cho (Kyung Hee University)
Soohyung Lee (Seoul National University)

​Soyoung Kim (Seoul National University)​
Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University)
Taeyoon Sung (Yonsei University)

Wonki Cho (Korea University)
Wooyoung Lim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University)
Yoonsoo Lee (Sogang University)
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Young-Jun Cho (Seoul National University)
Youngse Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)

Youngwoo Koh (Hanyang University)​
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