Sang-young Rhyu is Professor of political economy at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is also the editor of EAF Policy Debates. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation at Yonsei University, majoring in Korean political economy. He served as a senior research fellow for Samsung Economic Research Institute (1995-2001) and stayed in Japan as a visiting fellow at Keio University (1992-1994) and the University of British Columbia (2009-2010), Canada. He served as Director of the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum (2004-2009), Yonsei University. He currently continues to research East Asian political economy, focusing on the comparative research about Korea and Japan from an institutional perspective. He is also working on research about Korean development and nationalism in the case of Park Chung Hee and Kim Dae-jung.