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 Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council. He acquired rich experiences having assumed over 20 major positions in well-known academic affiliations such as Association of Vietnamese Historians; Journal of American History, Organization of American Historians; Vietnam National University of HCM City; Korean Studies Association in Southeast Asia (KSASA), Australia. He was invited by Harvard University, USA to be a visiting scholar for one year during 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 post graduate teaching, he has been in charge of supervising over 100 master theses and doctoral dissertations; and attended numerous international seminars, symposiums, workshops, 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.”