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Korea in the World: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Global Partnerships Korea in the World: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Global Partnerships 세계 속 대한민국의 위상과 상호이해를 통한 글로벌 파트너십 증진 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Research for this volume was supported by the Scholars Group for Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University which awarded the Editor research leave to work on the book, and the Korean Studies Department of the Freie Universität Berlin which is hosting the Editor for his sabbatical. The authors are very grateful for the leadership provided by Booyeon Lee Allen, without whom this international and interdisciplinary work would not have been possible, and to Rachelle Seohyun Park and Ju-yeon Shin for their administrative support. 5 Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Brendan M. HOWE is Department Chair at the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and has served there as a professor of international relations since 2001. He was appointed a member of the Scholars Group for Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2013. He trained at Oxford University (B.A./M.A Modern History) the University of Kent at Canterbury (M.A. International Conflict Analysis), Georgetown University (International Law), Trinity College, Dublin (PhD Political Science), and Harvard University (Negotiations). He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Security Studies, Sydney University; the Research Institute for Strategic Studies, Korea National Defense University; the East-West Centre in Hawaii; and Georgetown University. He previously held posts at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. He has published extensively on security decision-making, human security, post- conflict development, global governance, and the East Asian operating environment. Recent books include: The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (ed.) (London: Ashgate, 2014); and Northeast Asian Perspectives on the Legality and Legitimacy of the Use of Force (with Boris Kondoch eds.) (Boston: Brill, 2013). 7 Notes on Contributors Daniel A. PINKSTON is the Northeast Asia Deputy Project Director for the International Crisis Group in Seoul. Prior to joining the International Crisis Group, he was director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Pinkston received his Ph.D. in international affairs from the University of California, San Diego, and he has a M.A. in Korean studies from Yonsei University. He is the author of The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program, and has published several scholarly articles and book chapters on Korean security affairs. He also served as a Korean linguist in the U.S. Air Force. Kadir AYHAN works as the Academic Coordinator at Istanbul Culture Center located in Gangnam, Seoul. Ayhan is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies. His research interests include soft power theory, public diplomacy and non-state actors’ role in international politics. Ayhan graduated from The University of Auckland (New Zealand) with double majors in Economics and International Trade before joining Seoul National University for studying master’s program which he graduated with High Honor Award and Distinguished Thesis Award. He occasionally contributes articles to books, research centers and newspapers. Ayhan is fluent in Turkish, English and Korean. He was appointed as Honorary Envoy for Korea's Public Diplomacy by the Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2013. Utai UPRASEN is an Assistant Professor in European Studies at Division of International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. He received his doctoral degree in Economics from University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Utai specializes in Theory of Economic Integration, Theory of International Trade and Investment, and in economic interaction between the European and 8 Korea in the World: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Global Partnerships Asian countries. The Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling and the econometric analysis also are his specialised areas. One of his latest publications includes “The Impact of Non-Tariff Barriers in the European Union on China’s Exports” a chapter in Economic Integration in Asia: Towards the Delineation of a Sustainable Path (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He has been appointed as an Honorary Envoy for Public Diplomacy for Korea since January 2013. Judee Grace NEMENO attained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from San Pedro College. She served her Alma Mater as a full-time Assistant Professor and as the Biology Internship Coordinator for 13 years in Davao City, Philippines. She completed a Masters of Arts in Science Teaching major in Biology at the University of Southeastern Philippines in 2006. Thereafter, she pursued her academic growth in South Korea and then acquired her Master of Science in Life Sciences from Ewha Womans University in February 2012 with her research focused on cell signalling pathways involved in cancer. Currently, she is an Assistant Researcher and a PhD candidate at the Stem Cell Research Center, Konkuk University where she, together with her research team, conducts studies focused on the role of Nanog in cancer, stem cell therapy, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine for various degenerative diseases. She is involved in various national and international conferences in the field of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stem Cell Therapy, and Tissue Engineering. As a Research scholar in Korea, she has published newsletter, review, and research articles in international journals. She was appointed honorary envoy to the Philippines for Korea’s Public Diplomacy in 2013. Robert J. MITCHELL is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the Ulsan National institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), in Ulsan where he and his group study microorganisms and 9 Notes on Contributors their applications to biotechnology and medicine. He was appointed a member of the Scholars Group for Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January 2013 and as a member of the International Science Business Belt Advisory Committee under the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning. He trained at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (B.Sc. Double Major in Microbiology and Chemistry), the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (M.Sc./ Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering), Harvard University Medical School (Bacterial Pathogens), Forsyth Dental Institute (Oral Pathogens) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Bioenergy). He has published extensively in the areas of applied microbiology and biotechnology, authoring over 40 peer-reviewed SCI- indexed research articles and book chapters. Recent publications include articles in top-ranking scientific journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Bioresource Technology and Environmental Microbiology. He also has thirteen patents (submitted and approved) related with applied and medical microbiology and biotechnology. Young Hoon KIM is Professor and Chair of Department of Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies and the Director of the Research Institute of Korean Culture at Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea). KIM Young Hoon is a cultural anthropologist, conducting research in the visual representation of Korea, Korean Aesthetics, and various issues in Contemporary Korean culture. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from University Southern California (USC). With unique combination of academic backgrounds of cultural and visual anthropology, he has been carrying out both writing and producing visual works on the various issues of Korean culture. His own film works includes Vegas Bliss (1996), Yong Su Han, A North Korean Defector (1997), and others. He is the author of From Dolmen Tombs 10 Korea in the World: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Global Partnerships to Heaven’s Gate (2013) Culture and Image (2002) and has published articles in the areas of Korean cultural studies, visual studies, and Korean aesthetics. A. M. Jehad SARKAR received B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from National University, Bangladesh, in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University, Korea in 2010. Since, September 2010 he has been an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Digital Information Engineering, Hunkuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea. He has also been a member of the Scholars Group for Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since January 2013. From May, 2005 to August, 2006, he served as a Principal Software Engineer in ReliSource Technologies Ltd., Bangladesh. From April, 2000 to April, 2005, he served as a Senior Software Engineer in TigerIT Ltd., Bangladesh. His research interests are Activity Recognition, Web mining, Data mining and Cloud Computing. Xuemei CUI is an assistant professor at the School of International Tourism, College of Business Administration of Dong-A University in Busan, and she has been working there since 2006. She got a Ph. D. degree at Dong-A University. Her specialty is tourism management. Before graduating from school, She has worked for Seoul City government in Beijing. She was appointed
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