The EAI played host for the 2010 EPIK Young Leaders Conference on August 17, 2010. Our goal in this conference was to provide a platform for talented students from home and abroad, who have different majors and backgrounds to develop not only their comprehensive knowledge but also global mind and community spirit. During the four presentation sessions, the six presenters shared their ideas on various topics such as international politics, security, economics, and business management as well as to ponder their roles in this ever changing global community.

 

From this year, the EPIK Young Leaders award will be given annually in recognition and celebration of the accomplishments in thessis competition. This year, awards were made to Yoon Jin Lee, Mimi Ahn, Shin Woo Kang and YunSuk Chung for their invaluable contributions to the first EPIK Conference. All papers presented including the prize-winning thesis will be posted on the EAI website shortly.

  

Program

   

09:30~09:40

Opening Remarks

Sook-Jong Lee, President of EAI, Sungkyunkwan University

 

09:40 ~09:50

Welcoming Remarks

Myung-Ki Kim, Samyang Corporation

 

09:50~10:10

Keynote Speech

Byung Kook Kim, President of Korea Foundation

 

10:10~11:30

Session 1: Politics of Community Building

 

Moderator

Seong-Ho Sheen, Professor at Seoul National University

 

Panel

Philip Do Youn Kim, University College London

Shin Woo Kang, University of Oxford

 

11:30~13:00 Lunch

 

13:00~14:20

Session 2: Economics of Community Building

 

Moderator

Seungjoo Lee,  Professor at Chung-Ang University

 

Panel

Yoon Jin Lee, Harvard University

Mimi Ahn, Yonsei University

 

14:20~15:40

Session3: International Community Building: East Asia Community

 

Moderator

Joo-Youn Jung, Professor at Korea University

 

Panel

Mee Young Leem, Korea University

YunSuk Jung, Princeton University

 

15:40~16:10 Break

 

16:10~17:50

Session 4: Comparative Community Building: The Two Koreas

 

Moderator

Paul Y. Chang, Professor at Yonsei University

 

Panel

Binnarae Oh, University College London

 

18:00~ Dinner & Award Ceremony

 

EPIK Young Leaders Award Recipients

  

1st Prize

Yoon Jin Lee, “The Economics of Community Building”

 

2nd Prize

Mimi Ahn, “U.S-China Tires Dispute Case Study” Shin Woo Kang, “A New Conservatism: As a Community Building Ideology”

 

3rd Prize

YunSuk Chung, “Designing Effective Environment Regimes in Northeast Asia”