BA and MPhil (Dublin), PhD (London)

Professor of International Studies
School of Politics and International Studies
University of Leeds

c.bluth@leeds.ac.uk

• Specialist in international security and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
• Working on the South Korean national security and the North Korean nuclear programme since 2003
• 2004 received fieldwork grant from the Korean Foundation
• 2005 Visiting Professor at Yonsei University, Seoul and Visiting Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
• 2006 received grant for policy-related research from the Korea Foundation to work on the ‘National Security Policy of the Republic of Korea’
• 2007 joint project with Prof. Moon Chung-in, Yonsei University
• Advisor to the Honorable Dr. Park Jin, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

BA (Dunelm), MA (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)

Lecturer in Korean Business and Management
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield

j.a.cherry@sheffield.ac.uk

w: www.shef.ac.uk/seas/staff/korean/cherry.html

• Working on Korea since 1980. Career spans academia, investment banking (research analyst) and consultancy (cultural awareness training)
• KPMG Research Fellow in Korean-European Relations (1995-1999) and Leverhulme Special Research Fellow (2000-2002)
• Works on Korean foreign direct investment (inward and overseas), Korea-European relations, state-business relations and post-crisis reform
• Latest book Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Crisis Korea: European Investors and ‘Mismatched Globalization’ (published in November 2007), London: RoutledgeCurzon
• Teaches modules on Korean business and management, Korean grammar and Korean-English translation
• Links with Ewha University and Seoul National University
• Awarded the MBE in 1999 for ‘Services to Exports to Korea’ after nine years’ service on British government trade committees

BA (Oxford Brookes), MA (Leeds), PGCE (York), PhD (Hull)

Professor in East Asia's International Political Economy
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Leeds

c.m.dent@leeds.ac.uk

w: www.smlc.leeds.ac.uk/eas/eas_content/about/floats/staff_details/chris_dent.html

• Works on the international economic relations and the international political economy of South Korea and East Asia more generally
• Has visited South Korea six times since 1998 for research, including extensive fieldwork interviews with officials
• Teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate module on both Koreas, covering politics, economics, international relations
• Book on ‘The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan’ published in 2002 by Edward Elgar publishers
• Links with Yonsei University and with the Korean Institute for International Economic Policy
• Invited speaker at the APEC 2005 International Symposium hosted in Busan, South Korea, November 2005, a preparatory event for the 2005 APEC Summit hosted by Busan
• Author of eight books and over 50 academic articles and other papers
• Occasional consultant advisor to the British and United States Governments, and European Commission on trade issues
• Expert (Brains Trust) member of the Evian Group

BA (Rutgers), MA (Columbia), MDiv (Duke), PhD (Edinburgh)

Professor of Modern Korean Studies
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield

j.h.grayson@sheffield.ac.uk

w: www.shef.ac.uk/seas/staff/korean/grayson.html

• Research interests are the diffusion of religion across cultural boundaries and an analysis of the religious and intellectual conceptual framework of the Korean and East Asian peoples
• Broadly anthropological in approach with an interest in both the ancient and recent periods of Korean history
• President of the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS)
• Fieldwork in Korea, Japan and Okinawa
• Analytical compendium of ancient and modern Korean folktales was published in 2001, followed by a number of articles based upon the research and fieldwork conducted for the book
• Editor of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) newsletter

BMus (Edinburgh), MA (Hawaii), PhD (Washington)

Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Department of Music
University of Sheffield

A.Killick@sheffield.ac.uk

w: www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/akillick

• Working on Korea since 1985
• Works on Korean music and musical theatre, especially modern developments of traditional music
• Book In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’anggŭk under review
• Teaches modules on music of East Asia, ethnomusicology, world music
• Past president of Association for Korean Music Research (2000-03); secretary (2004-07) and journal co-editor (2007-10) of British Forum for Ethnomusicology
• Prize-winning translator (with wife Cho Sukyeon) of modern Korean literature.

BSc (Seoul National University), MSc and PhD (LSE)

Lecturer in Urban Geography
Department of Geography and Environment
London School of Economics and Political Science

tel. +44 (0)20 7955 6383 (office)
fax. +44 (0)20 7955 7412 (office)
email: h.b.shin@lse.ac.uk

• Works on urban planning and regeneration, urban governance and community participation, urban housing and social change in East Asia, with a special reference to the cities in mainland China and South Korea;
• Has conducted field research in both Beijing and Seoul, including in-depth interviews with officials and residents;
• Actively engages in collaborative projects with researchers from South Korea;
• Links with the Housing & Urban Research Institute and the Hope Institute (a civil society thinktank);
• Members of the Korea Chapter of the Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research, and the Executive Committee of the East Asia Social Policy network

BA (Hankook University of Foreign Studies), MA (Korea University), PhD (Sheffield)

Research Fellow
School of Politics and International Relations
University College Dublin
Dublin

k.son@sheffield.ac.uk

• Working on Korea since the 1980s; career spans journalism and academia
• Korea Times reporter and political editor (1988-2002) and lecturer at the University of Sheffield (2005-2007)
• Works on inter-Korean security issues; engagement policies; US-South Korea alliance
• Latest book, South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy, was published in 2006 by Routledge, London and New York

BA (Oxon)

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea
University of Leeds

afostercarter@aol.com

w: www.aidanfc.net

• Came to Korea in the 1970s, via development studies and juvenile Kimilsungism
• In the 1980s set up Leeds University Korea Project, with Dr Judith Nordby; taught a course on modern Korean societies, and co-organized seminars and other events
• Since 1983 has written on Korea for business and policy audiences, including the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Oxford Analytica, IDEAglobal, NewNations etc. Recently launched a new monthly Korea Focus, published by Menas Associates
• Retired from Leeds University in 1997, to work full-time and freelance on Korea
• Visited Korea over 20 times since 1982, including twice to North Korea
• Invited lecturer on Korea in not only Seoul but the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium and Latvia, as well as over 20 UK universities and think-tanks
• Consulted on Korea by major global companies et al, including AIG, Allianz, BAE, BG, BHP, Caltex, Coca-Cola, EBRD, GIC, KLM, Rio Tinto, Shell, Unilever, etc
• Regular broadcaster (radio and TV) for the BBC and many other stations worldwide
• Met Kim Dae-jung 4 times, including 2 full days discussing unification in 1993
• Hundreds of articles on Korea for EIU, Oxford Analytica, and others. Op-eds for the Financial Times, Wall St Journal, New York Times, Int. Herald Tribune, Guardian, Telegraph, Prospect, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review etc.
• Two quasi-books for EIU: Korea’s Coming Reunification (1992);  North Korea after Kim Il-sung (1994). Two dozen academic papers, book chapters etc on Korea, some translated into Korean
• Examiner of PhD/DPhil theses on Korea at Oxford, Cambridge, et al; also overseas.

BA (The University of Sheffield), PhD (The University of Sheffield)

Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
University of Leeds
The Coach House
5 Hillary Place
Leeds LS2 9JT

Email: j.elfving-hwang@shef.ac.uk

w: www.shef.ac.uk/seas/staff/korean/cherry.html

• Main research interests lie in modern Korea literature and contemporary women’s literature in particular, the study of representations and their use in the literary and visual arts, gender theory, critical theory, and to a certain extent, folklore.
• Currently Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, and Research Associate in the White Rose East Asia Centre
• Visiting lecturer in Korean literature at the University of Sheffield
• Published a number of articles on Korean literature, and currently working on a book tentatively titled: “Fiction and Femininity in South Korea”

w: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ir/profile200529.html

• Research interests in South Korean and Chinese political economy, International Political Economy, South Korean social movements.
• Currently working on a RCUK-funded project titled “Emerging Global Capitalisms,” examining the role of labour movements in East Asia and the shaping of the regional capitalist system.
• Authored a monograph titled “Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization” (London: Routledge, 2008), as well as a number of scholarly articles on Korean political economy and social movements.
• Currently teaching an MA Module, titled “East Asia in the International Political Economy.”
• Lived in South Korea for 4 years and carried out qualitative field research there.
• 2003-2004 Visiting Researcher at the Asiatic Research Center, Korea University.

BA (Sugiyama Jogakuen), MA (Ulster), PhD (Ulster)

Lecturer
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield

m.ko@shef.ac.uk

w: www.shef.ac.uk/seas/staff/japanese/ko.html

• Main research fields are Japanese, Korean and other East Asian cinema
• Works on identity and identity politics of Koreans in Japan
• Works also on the representation of the Korean minority group in Japanese cinema

BA (London), M.Phil (Glasgow)

Chief China Representative
Access Asia Ltd
Shanghai

paul@accessasia.co.uk

www.access-asia.info

• Founder and Chief China Representative of Access Asia Ltd – a market research and economic analysis company based in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong London and Kuala Lumpur.
• Involved in research into markets and economics of China, North Korea and East Asia
• Author of North Korea Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History (Zed Books) – first edition published 2005; second updated edition published 2007
• Co-author of One Billion Shoppers: Accessing Asia’s Consuming Passions (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1998) and author of Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand – The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, 2006)
• Editor of Xtreme Insight China (a journal covering marketing and consumer developments) and Asia-Pacific Editor of Ethical Corporation Magazine; regular contributor to the China Economic Quarterly.
• Consultant to investment banks CLSA Emerging Markets and Merrill Lynch and also serves on JP Morgan's "Hands-on China" expert group. He is also a former board member of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club, a member of the board of international advisors for the North Korea Investibility Index (NKII) and a member of the editorial advisory board for Anthem Press’ ‘China in the Twenty First Century’ series.
  
  

BA, PhD (London)

Freelance Writer and Broadcaster on Korean Affairs
Chargé d'Affaires and HM Consul General, British Embassy Pyongyang (2001-2002)

jim@jhoare10.fsnet.co.uk

• Chargé d'Affaires and HM Consul General, British Embassy Pyongyang. Establishing the first British Embassy in North Korea (2001-2002)
• Head of North Asia and Pacific Research Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Research Counsellor, (1995-2001)
• Member European Union Humanitarian Delegation to North Korea, 1998
• Head of Chancery and HM Consul, British Embassy Seoul (1981-1985)
• Author of: The British Embassy Compound Seoul 1884-1984 (Seoul: Korea-British Society, 1984 - new, revised and expanded edition Seoul: British Embassy, 1999); Britain and Korea 1797-1997, (Seoul: British Embassy, 1997); Ebassies in the East: The Story of the British and their Embassies in China, Japan and Korea 1859-1999 (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999); Culture Smart! Korea: A Quick Guide to Customs & Etiquette (London: Kuperard, 2005).
  

Producer/Director

VeryMuchSo productions
Sheffield

dan@verymuchso.co.uk

w: www.verymuchso.co.uk

• Producer/Director of three feature length documentaries on North Korea
• The Game of Their Lives (2002): the story of the North Korea’s legendary football team of 1966, who produced the greatest shock in World Cup history when they knocked out Italy.
• A State of Mind (2004): the story of two schoolgirl gymnasts, as they prepare for that year’s Mass Games, the biggest choreographed spectacle in the world.
• Crossing The Line (2006), the story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector still living in North Korea.
  

BA (Essex) and PhD (London)

Professor of Security and Resilience
Head of Resilience Centre
Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience
DASSR - WH229
Cranfield University
Shrivenham Campus
SWINDON
SN6 8LA
UK, UK

h.smith@cranfield.ac.uk

w: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cds/staff/smithhazel.jsp

• Specialist in DPRK (North Korea) domestic economy, society and foreign policy
• Specialist in inter Korean relations and East Asian security
• Specialist in humanitarian assistance and human rights to and in North Korea
• Visited and worked on the DPRK since 1990
• 1998-2001: for 18 months lived and worked in North Korea for WFP and UNICEF and Caritas Internationalis
• Senior fellow United States Institute of Peace 2001-2002 working on North Korea
• Advisor and consultant to various governments including United States, UK, Swiss, Thai, Japan on North Korea
• Advisor and consultant to business, international organisations, NGOs and the media on North Korea
• 2002 honoured by President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush in New York for contribution to Americares work on North Korea
• 2005-2007: joint work with the Sejong Institute on human rights in North Korea
• 2005-ongoing: work with Stanley Foundation, KIEP, SAIS US-Korea institute on DPRK economy
• Director of exchange and training project with North Korean economists in DPRK Ministry of Trade
• Frequent Speaker at Korea Society New York (latest February 2008)
• Recent books include Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian assistance and Social Change in North Korea (USIP press, 2005) and Reconstituting Korean Security (UN University press, 2007)
• Awarded competitive international fellowship to East West Institute University of Hawaii 2008 to research North Korean shipping
• Currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press - The Transformation of North Korea
• Supervises 4 doctoral students working on Korea

MA (Humboldt), PhD (Mercator University Duisburg)

Professor of East Asian Economy and Society
East Asian Institute
University of Vienna

ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at

w: www.univie.ac.at/koreanologie/frank/index.php

• Acting Director, Vienna School of Governance
• Adjunct Professor, Korea University, Seoul
• Adjunct Professor, University of North Korean Studies, Seoul
• Research Associate, Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University
• Council Member of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE)
• First visit to North Korea in 1991 as a language student at Kim Il-sung University
• Member of the Board of Editors, Brill’s Korean Studies Library
• Member of the Board of Editors for Korea: Politics, Economy, Society (Brill)
• Associate, Japan Focus (since 2007)
• Published widely on socialist transformation in East Asia, governance in East Asia, East Asian political economy and East Asian regionalism

Specialist in Tourism and Cultural / Sport Projects in North Korea

koryotours@mac.com

w: www.koryogroup.com

• Director of Beijing based Koryo Tours, specialists in travel, cultural/sport exchanges to North Korea since 1993. Appointed as travel specialist by Korea International Travel Company (DPRK Government body)
• International co-ordinator for the Pyongyang International Film Festival (in 2004/2006 screened films Bend it like Beckham, Mr Bean the Disaster Movie and Bride and Prejudice- each film seen by over 12,000 locals).
• Associate Producer /Co Producer of three feature length documentaries on North Korea
  * The Game of Their Lives (2002): the story of the North Korea’s legendary football team of 1966, who produced the greatest shock in World Cup history when they knocked out Italy. Organised return of the DPRK 1966 World Cup team to UK (North Korea’s biggest cultural event with Europe) in October 2002.
  * A State of Mind (2004): the story of two schoolgirl gymnasts, as they prepare for that year’s Mass Games, the biggest choreographed spectacle in the world.
  * Crossing The Line (2006), the story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector still living in North Korea
• Specialist and collector of DPRK art (one of the most significant collections outside DPRK)
• May 2007 produced ‘Welcome to Pyongyang’ a photographic study with photographer Charlie Crane

Author, photographer, illustrator and cartographer

Dip, BSc Hons (Open University)

robinoi@yahoo.com

• Author, photographer, illustrator and cartographer of the pioneering and acclaimed Bradt Guide to North Korea (including visiting the hitherto off-limits Inner Kumgang in 2003). Over 7,000 copies sold in three prints and two editions (2003 and 2008).
• Interviewed by the Washington Post, Radio 4's Excess Baggage among other BBC programmes and PBS about North Korea.
• Visited and toured North Korea for the British Council and for Bradt Guides, while living and working in Beijing, China. Has lived, worked and toured Vietnam and China as well as the DPRK.
• 'Written articles for the Beijing and international press, including the Guardian Weekly, Index on Censorship, Yorkshire Post and CNN Traveller about North Korea.
• Author of the best-selling Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories (second edition out this year) and working on a synopsis for the encroaching digital neo-Stasi corporate state.