Sang-young Rhyu is a professor of political economy at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Korean Political Economy from Yonsei University. He served as a senior research fellow at the Samsung Economic Research Institute(1995-2001) and was a visiting professor at Keio University in Japan and the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto in Canada. As the director of the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum (2004-2009), he researched and collected numerous historical records and assembled the Kim Dae-jung Oral History Collection. He has published many articles on the political economy and history of Kim Dae-jung and Park Chung-hee. He is also the editor of EAF Policy Debates. His current research focuses on Korean political history and political economy from a perspective of nationalism.