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WON-HO KIM. Visiting Professor, UNC-CH School of Journalism. Joint Professor, School of International and Area Studies (SIAS) Seoul National University. Director for the Americas (on sabbatical leave) and Chief Coordinator for Government Advisory Group on Latin America, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). Research Focus: Comparative analysis of economic reforms, Korean/Asian-Latin American economic relations and International political economy of regional integration.
JIN W. MOOK. Professor Department of Public Administration, Kookmin University. Editor, Korean Policy Studies Review. Grants and Contracts: 2000, Information Technology and Public Corruption, Korean Research Foundation. 2000, Public Acceptance to Risk of Atomic Use, Korean Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning. Speaker Topic: IT Education for Korean Public Employees: The Purpose of the presentation is to introduce an IT education program designed for Korean public employees at the post-graduate level. Specifically, the presentation includes the rationale for the IT education in the public sector and the program components such as the admission and graduation requirements, the course title and content, and their arrangement for the program period.
DAVID W. OWENS. Professor of Public Law and Government at the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he teaches and advises state and local officials on land use planning, and regulation. He received his graduate planning degree and law degree from UNC-CH. His work experience prior to joining the IOG faculty includes three years as attorney and senior planner for the Wisconsin State Planning Office and ten years with the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, where he served in a variety of capacities, including chief planner, assistant director, and director of the division. He was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin in 1975 and is also a member of the North Carolina bar. Owens has been on the Institute of Government faculty since 1989. His publications include numerous books and articles on zoning law, including the basic legal reference on zoning law in North Carolina, Legislative Zoning Decisions, and the widely-used guide for citizen boards, Introduction to Zoning. He has also written on the scope of local governments' legal authority, urban growth management tools and techniques, First Amendment aspects of land use regulation, conflicts of interest, planning legislation, and various aspects of coastal management law and policy. He teaches courses in administrative law in the MPA program and in land use controls at the Law School. He has also served as director of the Institute's summer intern program and as editor of the Institute's Legislative Reporting Service.
LEE MANDELL, has been with the North Carolina League of Municipalities since 1988. As Chief Information/Chief Technology Officer for the League, he coordinates and executes League policies and programs in information technology for League members, including advocating and defending the municipal perspective on information technology issues as a member of the State's Information Resource Management Commission, Information Highway Policy Committee, Information Technology Management Advisory Council, CIO Council, NCNET Governance Board, Geographic Information Coordinating Council and other state-level groups. He oversees the planning, developing, designing, and use of all information technology systems by the League staff and also manages the League's legislative, fiscal, and statistical research programs. Prior to joining the North Carolina League, he did applied research on a variety of state and local government issues for ten years at North Carolina State University's Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services. While there, Dr. Mandell directed a technical assistance program for local governments in productivity improvement through computerization and co-authored a book on automating data processing in cities and counties He has a Bachelors of Science degree from New York University and received his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, concentrating in communications research theory and methodology.
DONGWOOK KIM. Received his Ph.D., School of Public Policy & Management, Ohio State University, 1993. Currently he is the Director of Institute of Public Information Policy & Management and Associate Professor of Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. Member in the: Korean Public Administration Review editorial board; Korean Policy Studies Journal editorial board; Korean Broadcasting Commission Legal Advisory Committee; Ministry of Information & Communication Research Project Review Committee; SOC information policy Committee. CURRENT RESEARCH: Integrated Regulation on IT and Broadcasting Industry; Business Model for Webcasting Industry; Design for the New Organization of Korean Communication Commission; Designing the Planning and Coordination Mechanism for Electronic Government
JOHN HODGES-COPPLE, is the Planning Director for the Triangle J Council of Governments, where he coordinates the Council's work related to land use, transportation and the environment, and oversees the Council's data center. The Council's Development Choices Project won awards from the National Association of Regional Councils and the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association. John has a masters degree in Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Duke University. John was one of 10 people in the US awarded Eisenhower Fellowships last year; he studied regional planning in New Zealand. John has served on the Durham Planning Commission and taught a course on urban planning and policy at UNC-Chapel Hill.
SUNG GUL HONG. Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Kookmin University. Received his Ph.D in Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Current research focuses on Information Technology Industries. Dr. Hong just finished a study on the TFT-LCD industry in Korea and is working on comparing information technology industries (policies and businesses) in Taiwan and South Korea in the period of economic difficulties (i.e., before and after the IMF crisis). Additional research on Local information society development efforts: study on various urban and rural governments' policies and their impacts on information society development. Modern Political History of Korea: focusing on the nuclear and missile development initiative under the Park Administration with the collaboration of 30 young Korean scholars and Ezra Vogel at Harvard
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