ECONOMIC SCIENTISTS IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES


The core staff are social scientists based on economics and business. We deal with various social and economic science issues, especially on sustainable public policy, system dynamics, and risk management. Economics is the center of our research, but we have been trying to expand our research to other disciplines, such as, business administration, data science, computational economics, and experimental psychology. See below CVs and short bio for three core staff members and their interdisciplinary collaboration.

SUNGHEE CHOI

Founding Director

Sunghee Choi, Ph.D.

Sunghee Choi is the founding director of the EPRC and in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at Keimyung Univ. He has been serving as an energy policy advisor for various pubic agencies, such as, Prime Minister's Office of Rep. of Korea, Ministry of Industry and Energy, Korea Energy Economics Institute, etc.  His research focuses on three areas: (1) eye-tracking experiment to discover intrinsic incentive of the agents in energy-environment-economy system (2) agent-based model designing to simulate evolution of the system, and (3) the interrelationship between energy markets and financial markets. Please see his CV for more information.
2010~Present
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Keimyung Univ.


2008-2024
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental & Resource Economics Review (2022-2024) 
Editorial Board, Korea Energy Economic Review (2008-2021)


2015-2016
Visiting Research Scholar, Claremont Graduate Univ. (hosted by Paul Zak of the Centrer for Neuroeconomic Studies)


2008-2009
Overseas Resource Diplomacy Expert Committee, Prime Minister's Office of Rep. of Korea


2018-2019
General Advisory Board, Clean Energy Master Plan City of Busan, Korea


2005-2010
Associate Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute
 
 
 
 
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HaNOOL Choi

senior Research fellow

Hanool Choi, Ph.D.

Hanool Choi is an Associate Professor of Business Information Science at Keimyung University. His research interests include evolutionary economics, agent-based model designing, network economics, organizational learning, and system analysis of digital trade and commerce. His frontier paper about the "network effects" published in Industrial Marketing Management at 2010  is still citied frequently by researchers in the field. He received his Ph.D. in Management Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Fore more information on Prof. Kim, For more details, please click his CV.
2007-Present
Assistant and Associate Professor, Keimyung University



2020-2022
Vice Dean, Information and Communication Center, Keimyung University


2017-2018
Visiting Scholar, Southern Illinois University, USA 





 
  

 
 
 
 
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Youngshin Kim

senior Research fellow

Youngshin Kim, Ph.D.

Youngshin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Commerce at Keimyung University. His research interests include experimental public choice and behavioral economics. Before joining Keimyung University, he worked as a research fellow at Korea Economic Research Institute while advising government policy in Office for Government Policy Coordination, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Ministry of Health and Welfare. He received his Ph.D. in economics fom George Mason University. Fore more information on Prof. Kim, please click his CV.
2001
Visiting Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C. USA

2011-2016
Public Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Rep. of Korea


2014-2015
Committee Member, Ministry of Interior and Safety, Rep. of Korea


2015-2016
Special Advisor, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Rep. of Korea


2010-2017
Research Fellow, Korea Economic Research Institute


2017-present
Assistant Professor of Economics and Int'l Commerce, Keimyung Univ.

 
 
 
 

Ki-Dong Lee

senior Research fellow

Ki-Dong Lee, Ph.D.

Ki-Dong Lee is  Emeritus Professor of Economics and International Commerce at Keimyung University. He is one of the leading economists in Korea with significant contributions to the areas of international economics, regional economics, and game theory. He is the author and co-author of more than 68 refereed articles which have been published in the world-class journals, such as Journal of International Economics, Manchester School, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, etc.  Also, Prof. Lee has served in many professional appointments, including as the president of the Korean Economic and Business Association and the Korea-Japanese Economics and Management Association. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. Fore more information on Prof. Lee, please click his CV.
1994-1995 
Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan

1995-1996
Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET), Rep. of Korea
1997-2021
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Dept. of International Commerce, Keimyung Univ., Rep. of Korea
2004-2005
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Washington, USA.


2021-present
Emeritus Professor, Major in International Commerce, Keimyung Univ. Rep. of Korea,

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ki-Dong Lee

senior Research fellow

Woosik Yu, Ph.D.

Woosik Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Commerce at Keimyung University. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan. His research interests focus on international trade and economic development, examining how changes in market conditions, such as national policies, trade environments, and external shocks, impact firm-level performance as well as country-level growth and development. He holds a Ph.D. in International Commerce from Seoul National University, an M.Sc. in Operations Research from the London School of Economics, and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics from University College London.
2018-2019
Consultant, Risk Advisory, Deloitte Korea, South Korea 

2023-2024


Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan


2024-present
Assistant Professor, Department of International Commerce, Keimyung University, South Korea

 
 
 
 
 
 

min-wook hwang

technical research assistant

Min-Wook Hwang

Min-Wook Hwang is a technical research assistant with expertise in software engineering. He is interested in various programming language. His primary mission in the Center is to develop eye-tracking experiment system. He has been awared several government-sponsored grants for eye-tracking projects in Korea.

2017
Creative Software R&D Contest Exhibit: Eye-Tracking Technology Development
2017
Frontier Ventures and Start-ups: Automatic Data Analytic Tools with Eye-Tracking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Selected Alumni: 
Name (First Placement)
 2022-Present
 Taehoon Kim (graduation expected at 2027) , Eunkyung Kim (graduation expected at 2025), Eunseo So (graduaton expected at 2027)
2018-2021
Serin Kim (Shinhan Bank)
2018-2020
Horim Shin (Pyeong Hwa Automotive Co.)
2015-2019
Dong-Jin Kim (Silkroad  Group) / Sang-Beom Ha (Daegu Credit Union) 
2014-2018
MD Abdus Salam (Ministry of Education, Bangladesh) / Sung-Bin Park (Woori Bank)
2013-2015
Gahee Kim (Yuhan Corporation) / Bobae Kwon (Daegu Manufacturing Start-up)
2012-2014
Byung-Wook Ha (LG-Lucem Corporation)