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
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
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,
Woosik YU
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)