Weon-Yong Sung is Professor of School of Northeast Asian Studies, Incheon National University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Saint Petersburg University, Russia, in 1997. He served as a research fellow of Korea Transport Institute, the president of the Korea Association for Comparative Economics, and a member of the ROK Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation. His research is mainly on cross-border cooperation in NEA region, Eurasian economic integration, and Eurasian transport and logistics network. He has authored or co-authored a number of journal articles and books on Russian economy and Korea-Russia economic relations including “Russia’s Turn to the East and Strategy for a Greater Eurasia”(2022); Security and Cooperation in Northeast Asia: the Russian-South Korean Expert Joint Paper(2015); “Putinism and State Capitalism in Russia: Historical Origins and Contemporary Transformation”(2014).