Professor Kun-Hyung Kang obtained his Ph.D degree from Sogang University in 1995. His field is International Relations, especially the Theory of International Politics, and Northeast Asian international Relations including the Korean Peninsula. He worked at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of Korea as a researcher. He has been a Professor at Jeju National University since 1984. He served as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, U.S.A.(1999-2000) and a research professor at Keio University, Japan(2000-2001). He was a dean of the College of Social Science (2012-2014) and served as a director of the Institute of Peace Studies and the Institute of East Asian Affairs at Jeju National University. He was also a policy consultant in the Ministry of Unification and now serves as a chairman of the Center for Unification Education in Jeju and a member of the Jeju Peace Unification Forum. He has published many articles including “Changes in U.S.- China Relations and Korea’s Response”(2016) and The Political Economy of U.S.-Japanese Relations: American Hegemony and the Challenge of Japan (2003).