"Korea and the World Economy, V" Conference, Seoul, Korea

A Joint Conference of AKES, RCIE, and KDI

Korea and the World Economy, VI

July 2-3, 2007, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

July 2-3, 2006
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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Organizers:	Manwoo Lee, President, Association of the Korean Economic Studies (AKES) JungTaik Hyun, President, Korea Development Institute (KDI) Kar-yiu Wong, Director, Research Center for International Economics (RCIE), University of Washington **, *, University of Wollongong
Organizing Units:	Association of the Korean Economic Studies (AKES) Korea Development Institute (KDI) Research Center for International Economics (RCIE) *******
Supporting Units:	Bank of Korea (BOK) Korea University BK21 To be added.
Program Committee:	Hyun-Hoon Lee, Kangwon National University, Korea (co-chair) Kar-yiu Wong, University of Washington, US (co-chair) Joshua Aizenman, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Hong Tack Chun, Korea Development Institute, Korea Charles Harvie, University of Wollongong, Australia Kiheung Kim, Kyonggi University, Korea Sung Tai Kim, Cheongju University, Korea Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Japan Chung Mo Koo, Kangwon National University, Korea Junggun Oh, Bank of Korea, Korea Yunjong Wang, SK Telecom Research Institute, Korea Insill Yi, Sogang University, Korea
Local Organizing Committee:	Sung Jin Kang, Korea University (co-chair) Charles Harvie, University of Wollongong (co-chair)

This is the xisth one of the conference series on "Korea and the World Economy." Previous ones were held in Seoul, Korea (July 2002), Seattle, USA (August 2003), Seoul, Korea (July 2004), Seattle, USA (December 2005), and Seoul, Korea (July 2006)

Economists, policy makers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers on Korea, Asia-Pacific, and the world economy. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Papers in the following areas are especially sought:

Korean economy and its foreign trade
the new multilateral round of the WTO and related trade issues
inter-East-Asia and inter-Korea economic relations and cooperation
FTAs and FDI, with special reference to Korea and its neighboring countries
trade liberalization and regionalism in East Asia

If interested, please send a draft of a paper or an extended abstract 500+ words long, in English, with your name, affiliation, academic position, mail and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers, by March 31, 2007 to either Charles Harvie, Hyun-Hoon Lee or Kar-yiu Wong (submission via e-mail is preferred):

Hyun-Hoon Lee, Division of Economics and International Trade, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, Korea <hhlee@kangwon.ac.kr>
Kar-yiu Wong, Department of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3330, U. S. A. <karyiu@u.washington.edu>
Charles Harvie, School of Economics and Information, Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia <charvie@uow.edu.au>

Papers will be selected through a competitive peer review. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on around April 15, 2006. The final version of all papers for presentation will be due May 31, 2006.

The conference will be held on the campus of Universityof Wollongong.

Publication: All presenters will be invited (but not obligated) to submit their presented papers for publication in the Journal of the Korean Economy, the English journal of the Association of the Korean Economic Studies.