South Korea's New External Economic Strategies

Name: South Korea's New External Economic Strategies
Start: 2022-10-18T15:00:00-0400
End: 2022-10-18T16:30:00-0400

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Korea Project invites members of the Harvard community to join us for an event with Dr. Taeho Bark, the Korea Project's 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar, on his research on South Korean economic statecraft. Dr. Bark, a former ROK Minister for Trade, will be presenting key findings from his forthcoming report titled "South Korea's New External Economic Strategies." Dr. William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, will provide discussant remarks.

RSVPs are required for this in-person event open only to members of the Harvard community. Light refreshments will be served. Click here for a map of the Kennedy School.

This event is co-sponsored by the Korea Project, the Korea Institute, and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.

Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2022 Time: 03:00pm - 04:30pm Location: Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB

Speaker: Dr. Taeho Bark (Former ROK Minister for Trade; President, Lee & Ko Global Commerce Institute; & Senior Visiting Scholar, Korea Project, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Moderator: Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School)

Biography:

Dr. Taeho Bark is the first president of the Lee & Ko Global Commerce Institute (GCI), newly established in September 2017. Together with the GCI team members working under his supervision, Dr. Bark monitors new developments and trends in global trade and investment, analyzes major international trade dispute cases and provides in-depth advice and strategic insights to Korean and foreign enterprises in connection with their trade and investment-related planning and concerns. Dr. Bark is the current Senior Visiting Scholar with the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Bark is an internationally renowned trade expert and, among other accomplishments, is a Seoul National University (SNU) Professor Emeritus, who has lectured extensively on international commerce and related subjects, and former Dean of the SNU Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS). In addition to his academic career, Dr. Bark has extensive experience serving as a public official working on trade policy and negotiation matters, having served with distinction as Minister for Trade of the Korean government (December 2011 - March 2013), as well as serving as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Trade and as the Chairman of the International Trade Commission of Korea.