Sang-young RHYU is a professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies, researching contemporary Korean history and political economy. He is the Managing Director of the East Asia Foundation and editor of the East Asia Foundation Policy Debates. He received his doctorate from Yonsei University and served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Samsung Economic Research Institute (1995-2001), a visiting researcher at Keio University in Japan, and a visiting professor at 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 assembled the Kim Dae-jung Oral History Collection, collected and published various historical records, and led the launch of an exhibition room. His written works include The Spirit of Korean Development (2015) and The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea (2019). He focuses on research linking history and political economy, and recently published The Dialogue between Park Chung-hee and Kim Dae-jung: A Self-portrait of Contemporary Korean History (2022, in Korean). He was the project leader for the “EAF Premium Report 2023: Economic Security and Technology," which was released in 2023. He also published “Carbon Neutrality and South Korean Businesses: Choices and Strategies for Sustainability” (2024).