Filed Under: Development, Economy, Events, South Korea

September 16, 2009

“Korea as a Global Partner for Poverty Reduction and Development Cooperation: From Recipient to Emerging Donor”

South Korea has attained remarkable economic development and democratization in the midst of the security tensions. Only after a generation of rapid development, South Korea had begun its role as a donor of development assistance to other developing countries in the early 1990s. Is South Korea ready to be a responsible member in the global community working to help reduce the world’s extreme poverty by sharing its knowledge as well as wealth? Dr. Eun Mee Kim will explore how South Korea has changed from recipient to donor of official development assistance (ODA) and whether it is carving a new way of South-South cooperation.
This event is co-sponsored by the Korea Studies and the International Development Programs at SAIS.

Dr. Eun Mee Kim is the Director of the Institute for International Development and Human Security (IDHS) and a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans Unversity in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Kim is the former Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies and International Education Institute at Ewha Womans University; and a civilian member of the Regulatory Reform Committee and the Committee for International Development Cooperation.

Dr. Kim holds a B.A. from Ewha Womans University and an A.M. and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University. She has taught at the University of Southern California and served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and Brown University. Dr. Kim is widely published, including: Multicultural Society of Korea (with Ok Kyung Yang and Haiyoung Lee, in Korean; Seoul: Nanam Press, 2009), Corporate Restructuring and Networks in Korea After the Financial Crisis: Intercorporate Networks among Business Groups and Networks between Banks and Firms in Korea (in Korean; Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2005); Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development (State University of New York Press, 1997), The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy Development (Academic Press, 1998).