Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Keynote Address

Keynote Address (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM)

 Trade and Development with Human Capital: A Century's Narrative in Korea
           Hak Kil Pyo, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Economics, Seoul National University 
About the Speaker          

Hak K. Pyo is a Visiting Scholar at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) and Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Economics and Asia Center, Seoul National University. He earned BA from Seoul National University and PhD from Clark University. His publications include “Inflationary Expectations, ‘Endogenous Money’, and Economic Growth” (1986), “The Transition in the Political Economy of South Korean Development” (1993), “Excess Competition, Moral Hazard and Industrial trauma in Korea, 1977-1998” (2000) and “Financial Crisis and Relative Productivity Dynamics in Korea: Evidence from Firm-level Data (1992-2003) [2010].”