The New Republic of Korea Administration:

Foreign and Security Challenges

Speakers: Sean King, Eunjung Lim and Shawn Ho

Moderator: Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan.

Wednesday 25 May 2022 09:00-10:00 Tokyo/Seoul
(Tuesday 24 May 20:00 Washington DC/NYC - 17:00 U.S. West Coast - 15:00 Hawaii)


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Overview

Yoon Suk-yeol took office as President of the Republic of Korea on 10 May. His new administration faces several challenges: improving relations with Japan, dealing with North Korea, navigating the Sino-American confrontation and now the conflict between the West and Russia arising from Russia's attack on Ukraine. Our panel will help us understand the new ROK Administration's policies towards these challenges.

Speakers:

Sean King joined Park Strategies, a business advisory firm managed by former U.S. Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, in 2006. His focus is Asia, generating business and supporting clients in the region. He's also a University of Notre Dame Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Affairs Affiliated Scholar.

Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). Before joining Commerce, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. Mr. King also worked for the New York State Department of Economic Development, on whose behalf he led a 1997 trade mission to Taiwan.

Mr. King makes public speaking appearances, is a frequent on air television guest and his opinions and quotes have appeared in numerous publications. He has an MBA from Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from American University in Washington, D.C. As part of his MBA, Mr. King did a summer internship for Citibank in Taipei. He is fluent in Swedish.

Eunjung Lim is an Associate Professor at the Division of International Studies, Kongju National University (KNU). She also serves as Vice President for International Affairs, Dean of Institute of International Language Education, and Dean of Institute of Korean Culture and Education at KNU.

Her areas of specialization include international cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, comparative and global governance, and energy, nuclear, and climate change policies of East Asian countries. Since 2018, she has been a board member of Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC) and is currently a member of Policy Advisory Committee, the Ministry of Unification, and a member of Carbon Neutrality Committee of Chungcheong Namdo.

Before joining the KNU faculty, Dr. Lim served as an Assistant Professor at College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan. She also taught at several universities in the United States and Korea, including Johns Hopkins University, Yonsei University, and Korea University. She has been a researcher and a visiting fellow at academic institutes including the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Japanese Studies at Seoul National University, the Institute of Japan Studies at Kookmin University, and Institute of Energy Economics, Japan.

She earned a B.A. from the University of Tokyo, an M.I.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Shawn Ho is an Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. His research interests are: East Asian politics, security and history (in particular Korean Peninsular affairs). Prior to joining RSIS, he was a Researcher at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Singapore. He has also worked at the National Security Coordination Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore and the Ministry of Defence, Singapore. Shawn obtained his Master's Degree in Asian Studies from RSIS and his Bachelor's Degree from the Singapore Management University (SMU) with a double major in Political Science and Economics. (https://www.rsis.edu.sg/profile/shawn-ho/)

Moderator
Robert Dujarric, Co-Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan.
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