Young-sun Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and received a Master’s degree at Keio University, Japan. He served as the Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of Indonesia, and Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Seoul National University Asia Center, and his research fields are ASEAN-Korea relations and the politics of Southeast Asia. He also publishes columns regularly in a Korean daily newspaper, entitled ‘Kim Young-sun’s Closer Look into ASEAN (김영선의 ASEAN 톺아보기).’