Korean Unification in a New Era

In light of President Park Geun-hye's speech in Dresden, Germany and the growing discussion about the future of the Korean peninsula, the Office of the Korea Chair at Center for Strategic and International Studies will hold a full-day conference featuring senior-level policy and scholarly discussions on the topic of unification. This event will be a landmark conference on economic, business, political, and security opportunities of unification co-hosted with the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRCS) of the Republic of Korea and a consortium of other institutions.

Program Agenda
9:00-9:15 AM          Introductory and Welcoming
                                 Remarks

9:15-9:25 AM          Congratulatory Remarks

Session One: Economics of Korean Unification

9:25-10:35 AM        Panel A: The Economic Synergy
                                Effect of Unification of the
                                Korean Peninsula

10:35-10:45 AM      Coffee Break

10:45-11:55 AM      Panel B: Opening for Business,
                                Foreign Investment after
                                Unification

12:00-1:00 PM         Luncheon Address

Session Two: Korean Unification and the Security Environment

1:00-2:15 PM           Panel C: The Northeast Asian
                                Perspective

2:15-2:30 PM          Coffee Break

2:30-3:45 PM          Panel D: Global Perspectives

3:45-4:00 PM          Closing Remarks

4:00 PM                  Adjournment

This conference is hosted by the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences (NRCS) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

This conference has been organized by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), and Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET).

ROK Participants

JEONG Hyung-Gon
Vice President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)

KANG Eun Bong
Secretary General, National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences (NRCS)

KIM Dongsoo
Director, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET)

KIM Jaechun
Professor, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) Sogang University

KIM Yung Ho
Professor, Department of Political Science and Foreign Affairs, Sungshin Women's University

PARK Hyeong-Jung
Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU)

PARK Ihn-hwi
Professor of the Division of International Studies, Ewha Womans University

U.S. Participants

William Brown
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Thomas Byrne
Moody’s Investors Service

Kurt Campbell
Chairman & Executive Officer, The Asia Group

Victor Cha
Senior Adviser for Asia and Korea Chair, CSIS
Director, Asia Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Matthew Goodman
William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy and Senior Adviser for Asian Economics, CSIS

Michael Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS
Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Christopher Johnson
Senior Adviser for Asia and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Bruce Klingner
Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asia, The Heritage Foundation

Marcus Noland
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Sydney Seiler
Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks, U.S. Department of State

Sue Mi Terry
Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

ROK Observers

CHEON Seongwhun
Office of National Security, The Blue House

KIM Young Jae
President, Korean Political Science Association

JU Jaeuk
Research Fellow, National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences (NRCS)