Dr. Vo Van Sen is a professor of and an expert on the History of Vietnam, Contemporary History of Vietnam, Economic History of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, History of Vietnamese Culture, etc. In addition, he is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council. He acquired rich experiences having assumed over 20 major positions in well-known academic affiliations such as the Association of Vietnamese Historians, the Journal of American History, the Organization of American Historians, the Vietnam National University of HCM City, the Korean Studies Association in Southeast Asia (KSASA), and Australia. He was invited by Harvard University, USA, to be a visiting scholar for one year during the academic year 1992-1993; and from 1998 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, Japan. Apart from undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, he has been in charge of supervising over 100 master's theses and doctoral dissertations; and attended numerous international seminars, symposiums, workshops, and conferences in the USA, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Austria, Malaysia, India, Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, and China. He has also written over 60 books in English and Vietnamese, including “The Significance of Vietnamese Korean Cultural Exchanges to the Development of New Asia.”