Speaker
KANG Kun-Hyung
Affliation
Jeju National University
Title
Honorary Professor
Session
The Role of Jeju, an Island of World Peace, for Peace and National Unification of Korean Peninsula

Biography

Kun-Hyung Kang, born in 1954, is a honorary professor at Jeju National University. He lectured in the field of international relations for more than 30 years at the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Jeju National University. He served as Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Peace. He was a research professor at the University of Michigan, USA, and Keio University, Japan. He served as the chairman of the Jeju Peace and Unification Forum of the Minju Pyeongtong and a policy advisor to the Ministry of Unification. And as the head of the Jeju Unification Education Center for four years from 2018, he made great efforts to revitalize unification education in the Jeju region. He is also active as an editorial writer for the Jeju Ilbo, and his books include 『The Political Economy of US-Japan Relations』 (2003), US foreign policy and Korea-US relations, and numerous research papers on the North Korean nuclear issue.