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Research Presentations by Park and Chin

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"The Controversy Over South Korean Wartime Operational Control: The Real Issues"

Speaker: Nam-soo Park, 2014-15 Visiting Scholar, Lieutenant General (Ret.)

South Korean Lt. Gen. (retired) Nam-soo Park will address the controversy in South Korea (ROK) over the indefinite, “conditions-based” postponement last year of Seoul’s planned reassumption of wartime operational control (opcon) over its own forces. Since the Korean War, the U.S. commander in South Korea has been assigned wartime operational control over most South Korean military units, but U.S. and Korean leaders agreed in 2007 that Seoul would resume wartime opcon over all its forces by 2012. That decision was based on progressives’ concerns that U.S. exercise of opcon over South Korean forces diminished Seoul’s sovereignty and disadvantaged it in negotiations with North Korea. Conservatives and some military leaders, however, pushed for postponement in the belief that ROK military forces were not adequately prepared for the change and that it might increase the likelihood of a further reduction in U.S. forces in South Korea. Lt. Gen. Park will share his views on this controversy over opcon change.

 

"The Use of Domestic and International Law: Against North Korean Subversion and Human Rights Violations"

Speaker: Dong Hyuk Chin, 2014-15 Visiting Scholar from Kim & Chang Law Firm

Visiting scholar Dong Hyuk Chin will discuss issues of criminal law related  to North Korea, including the application of the controversial National Security Law in South Korea in the case of individuals and organizations suspected of supporting Pyongyang, and the international community's consideration of the North Korean regime's human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Chin is a former South Korean prosecutor with experience handling cases involving the National Security Law; he also established comprehensive plans for national security-related administration while serving in the Public Security Affairs Division of the Ministry of Justice and District Prosecutor's Office. In his talk, he will review the South Korean Constitutional Court's recent dissolution of a political party accused of supporting North Korea; share his personal experience prosecuting a criminal case involving the National Security Law; and discuss the United Nation's Commission of Inquiry into North Korea's human rights situations and the UN General Assembly's referral of North Korean crimes against humanity to the International Criminal Court.

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Philippines Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd floor

Nam-soo Park

Shorenstein APARC616 Serra StreetEncina Hall E301Stanford, CA 94305-6055
(650) 723-6530
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Lieutenant General (Ret) Park, Nam-soo joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2014-2015 academic year.  At Shorenstein APARC, General Park's research will focus on ROK-U.S. strategic responses to North Korean threats, the future of the ROK-U.S. alliance, and the establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula.

As a career officer, General Park held varied military staff and field positions. His final assignment (2012-2013) was as superintendent of the Korea Military Academy (KMA), and he commanded the Capital Defense Command in 2011. Earlier, he was the director of Combat Readiness Inspection and the deputy chief of staff for Joint Operations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2010-2011). General Park also served as the director of Defense Reform Planning and Coordination, and later as the director of Management Reform at the Ministry of National Defense (2006-2008). After retirement, he served as a chair professor of Soegyung University in Seoul, and he is also a senior research fellow with the Korea Research Institute for Strategy (KRIS). He received a BA in literature from KMA and an MA in security assurance from Kyonggi University.

 

Visiting Scholar

Dong Hyuk Chin

Shorenstein APARC616 Serra StreetEncina Hall, E301Stanford, CA 94305-6055
(650) 723-6530
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Dong Hyuk Chin joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during the 2014–15 academic year from the Kim & Chang Law Office in Korea. Chin is a senior attorney at Kim & Chang's Labor and Employment Group and White Collar Defense Practice Group. He served as a public prosecutor for 7 years, and has handled cases of the National Security Act and established comprehensive plans for a national security-related administration while in Public Security Affairs division of the Ministry of Justice and District Prosecutor’s Office.

Chin's research interests include the influence and meaning of criminal cases related to North Korean issues and the role of the jurists in preparation for the unification of Korea.

Chin graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea and holds a BA in law from the Seoul National University.

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* New Title * Global Migration System: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities

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Demetrios G. Papademetriou is Distinguished Senior Fellow, Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), and President of MPI Europe. Dr. Papademetriou has published more than 270 books, monographs, articles and research reports on migration and related issues, and advises senior government officials, foundations, and civil society organizations in dozens of countries. He also convenes the Transatlantic Council on Migration and the Regional (North American) Migration Study Group, chairs the Advisory Board of The Open Society Foundations’ International Migration Initiative (IMI), and is Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of Metropolis.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou Distinguished Senior Fellow, Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and President of MPI Europe Speaker
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Managing East Asian Geopolitics: A Korean Perspective

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M. J. Chung, a leading South Korean legislator and businessman, will offer his thoughts on South Korea's strategic situation and the role the United States should play in Asia as China continues its rise and Japan seeks to play a larger security role. The United States' reliance on Japan to bolster its "pivot" to Asia is increasing the strategic mistrust between Washington and Beijing, making South Korea feel sandwiched between the two countries. Meanwhile, the world seems to be paying scant attention to the burgeoning North Korean nuclear program. Will South Korea be the biggest loser if the current trajectory is left unchanged?

 

Dr. Chung is the founder and honorary chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in South Korea. He has served seven terms as a member of the South Korean National Assembly, and he was a candidate for the 2002 presidential election. He received a BA in economics from Seoul National University, an MS from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and a PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University.

Philippines Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd Floor

Stanford University

M. J. Chung <i>Founder and Honorary Chairman of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies</i>
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Korean Studies Colloquium Series

Written Constitutions and the Rule of Law

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Tom Ginsburg is the Deputy Dean and Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department.  He holds B.A., J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an NSF-funded data set cataloging the world’s constitutions since 1789.  His books include The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009) (with Zachary Elkins and James Melton), which won the best book award from Comparative Democratization Section of American Political Science Association; Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), Administrative Law and Governance in Asia (2008), Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (with Tamir Moustafa, 2008), and Comparative Constitutional Law (with Rosalind Dixon, 2011).  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he has consulted with numerous international development agencies and governments on legal and constitutional reform.  He currently serves a senior advisor on Constitution Building to International IDEA.

 

Stanford University’s School of Law and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are sponsoring a set of workshops for faculty working on the rule of law, corporate law, administrative law, international risk analysis, legal development in low-income countries, democratization, public health, development economics, and related fields. One desired outcome is the identification of the cognitive gaps between lawyers and social scientists around these topics, and the development of mutual language and understanding to spur better comprehension of different disciplines’ approaches to similar issues.

Manning Faculty Lounge

Stanford Law School

559 Nathan Abbott Way 

 

Thomas Ginsburg
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Debunking the Myths of the Chinese Economy

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Keyu Jin
There is a fundamental misunderstanding and misconception about the Chinese economy - about how it works and what are the true challenges it faces. In the talk, Dr. Keyu Jin will highlight three major myths: on what really drives growth in China, what explains its high savings rate, and the economic consequences of the one child policy. Everyone has something to complain about the Chinese economy: large misallocation of resources, low employment growth, a declining share of the economic pie going to Chinese households, environmental costs, financial repression, and wage suppression. Dr. Jin will argue that all of these phenomena are not disparate problems, but are all part of the same fundamental problem, one of macroeconomic structure. The Chinese economy is not 'imbalanced,' rather it is subject to a vicious cycle. And yet, there is still reason to view the Chinese economy with 'guarded optimism.'

Dr. Keyu Jin is an Assistant professor of Economics at London School of economics. She is from Beijing, China, and holds a B.A., M.A., and PhD from Harvard University. Her field of expertise is international macroeconomics and the Chinese economy. Her research has focused on global imbalances and global asset prices, demographics, as well as international trade and growth. Her research is tightly linked to examining the various economic issues in China. She has multiple publications in the American Economic Review, and has also written opinion pieces for the Financial Times and Project Syndicate. She sits on the Asian advisory board of Richemont Group and is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. 

Please note this event is off the record.

Keyu Jin Assistant professor in Economics London School of Economics
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Recruiting Top Talent for Japanese and American Startups - Differences, Opportunities, and Challenges

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The Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project
Public Forum Series with Networking

 

Casey Wahl is the CEO and founder of Wahl & Case K.K., a Tokyo-based global recruitment firm with a focus on startups and cross border expansion.  Mr. Wahl has many years of experience in the Japan and is also the founder of Red Brick Ventures, an angel investment and incubation platform.  He recently published a book in Japanese (english version to come), containing the stories of several Japanese entrepreneurs, giving insights into the challenges they face and their journeys to success.  He will be discussion characteristics of the labor market for startups in Japan and how Japanese companies can best hire talent in Silicon Valley.

 

Thursday, May 14, 2015
4:15 – 5:30 pm Lecture
5:30pm - 6:00pm Networking
Cypress Semiconductor Auditorium (CISX Auditorium)

Public Welcome • Light Refreshments

The Silicon Valley - New Japan Project

Cypress Semiconductor Auditorium (CISX Auditorium)
Paul G. Allen Building, Stanford University
330 Serra Mall, Stanford CA 94305
**Entrance is the Serra Mall side of the building**
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Casey Wahl CEO and founder of Wahl & Case K.K
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Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency

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Avik Roy

Avik Roy is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Opinion Editor at Forbes. His research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, international health systems, veterans' health care, and FDA policy. In 2012, Roy served as a health care policy adviser to Mitt Romney. He is the author of Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency and How Medicaid Fails the Poor, published by Encounter Books in 2013.In addition, Roy writes regularly for National Review Online on politics and policy. He is a frequent guest on television news programs, including appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, PBS, CBS, and HBO. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, USA Today, Health Affairs, and National Affairs, among other publications. Roy is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Care Management, and co-chairs the Fixing Vertans Health Care Policy Taskforce. At the Manhattan Institute,  Roy is the founder of Roy Healthcare Research, an investment research firm in New York. Previously, he served as an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital, J.P. Morgan, and other firms.

Avik Roy
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Why Taiwan's Defense Spending Has Fallen as China's Has Risen

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ABSTRACT

Over the past 20 years, the military balance between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan has rapidly shifted. As China’s defense budget has grown annually at double-digit rates, Taiwan’s has shrunk. These trends are puzzling, because China’s rise as a military power poses a serious threat to Taiwan’s security. Existing theories suggest that states will choose one of three strategies when faced with an external threat: bargaining, arming, or allying. Yet for most of this period, Taiwan’s leaders have done none of these things. In this talk, I explain this apparent paradox as a consequence of Taiwan’s transition to democracy. Democracy has worked in three distinct ways to constrain rises in defense spending: by intensifying popular demands for non-defense spending, introducing additional veto players into the political system, and increasing the incentives of political elites to shift Taiwan’s security burden onto its primary ally, the United States. Together, these domestic political factors have driven a net decline in defense spending despite the rising threat posed by China’s rapid military modernization program. Put simply, in Taiwan the democratization effect has swamped the external threat effect. 

 

SPEAKER BIO

Kharis Templeman is the Program Manager for the Taiwan Democracy Project in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, in the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University.

 

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Why Taiwan's Defense Spending Has Fallen
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Research Presentations (session 5 of 5) -Lim, Ohta and Prasad

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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Jaigeun Lim, Seoul Metropolitan Government, "A Study on the Influential Factors on Inbound Foreign Direct Investment and its Implications"

The global importance of Inbound Foreign Direct Investment (IFDI) continues to grow and each nation has made an effort to enhance its national competitiveness through IFDI.  Lim’s research targets 51 nations and 14  candidate variables to learn which factors have an influence on IFDI.

Statistically meaningful variables on IFDI include GDP, economic growth rate, dependency to trade, management of cities, small and medium-sized enterprises’ efficiency and investment incentive policy.  Particularly, the results from Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI)-oriented nations give evidence that influences of GDP, small and medium-sized enterprises’ efficiency and investment incentive policy are positive to IFDI.  However, Korea shows the lower level of performances in small and medium-sized enterprises’ efficiency and investment incentive policy.  Korea has also shown the lower performances in similar variables compared with other Asia-Pacific nations.  Lim’s research aims to find out what these results mean in terms of policy for Korea?

 

Ryuichi Ohta, Japan Patent Office, "Relationship Between Technical Standard and Patents"

Samsung and Apple have more than 50 cases of appeals to the courts against each other in more than 10 countries.  In these court battles, Samsung asserted injunction using essential patent which is related to telecommunication standards and committed RAND (Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) commitment.  Injunction is one of the basic rights for patent, which means Samsung can assert this right.  However in this case, can Samsung assert injunction in spite of RAND commitment?  In normal circumstances, standard organizations require RAND licensing obligations for essential patents.  Ohta will address the question "Why do they require it and why do they consider these obligations are reasonable for essential patents?" through case studies.

 

Rajeev Prasad, Reliance Life Sciences, "Concept of Total Quality Management in Pharmaceutical Industries"

The pharmaceutical industry is profoundly regulated and the reasons are obvious;  the use of ineffective, poor quality, harmful medicines can result in therapeutic failure, exacerbation of disease, and resistance of medicines and sometimes death of the patients.  Also, the mistakes in product design or production can have severe, even fatal, consequences for patients which sometimes lead to recall of drugs from the market.  Total Quality Management (TQM) acts as an umbrella under which everyone in the organization can strive for customer satisfaction by producing better quality of product, reduce cost and wastage and increase the efficiency of services.  In his research, Rajeev has focused on the failures of TQM principles by evaluating the warning letters, case studies of pharmaceutical manufacturers and product recalls and also outlined about the implementation of robust quality management system by amalgamation of principles of TQM and pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines.

Philippines Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd Floor, Central

Jaigeun Lim Seoul Metropolitan Government
Ryuichi Ohta Japan Patent Office
Rajeev Prasad Reliance Life Sciences
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Research Presentations (session 4 of 5) - Han, Matsui and Wakabayashi

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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Zhao Han, PetroChina, "The Development of American Oil Retail – Analysis of the Competitive Strategy in China"

The first gas stations were built in the early 1900s.  Having experienced rapid growth, brand integration, rising costs, model innovation and trans-boundary competition in developed countries like the United States, the gas station industry matured towards the end of the 20th century.  Around the year 2000, international oil companies gradually began to withdraw from the gas station market in developed countries.  During this time, convenience stores became the leader of the market with gasoline being one of the products of the convenience store.

With the development of mobile internet technology and the practice of the big data theory, the information authority has been broken.  The business model of traditional industries, such as the gas station industry, will change as well.  Gas stations will transform from the traditional E-station to E-platform.  In his research, Han argues that the business model of gas stations will turn from merchandise sales to customer service, and then to resource integration and platform management.

 

Yasunori Matsui, Mitsubishi Corporation, "How to Develop Effective Leadership Skills:  A Study Comparing Silicon Valley Companies"

In most Japanese companies, leadership skills are lacking.  From his experience, Matsui believes this problem exists at a higher level than the organization, as leadership skills are only developed for select people within the organization.  Additionally, he believes there is a high correlation between leadership effectiveness and the results that leaders produce.  Developing an adequate cadre of leaders to perpetuate their organization is essential to Japanese companies.  Unfortunately, the concept of leadership continues to be shrouded in misunderstanding.  In his research, Matsui compares leadership styles in Silicon Valley to those of Japanese companies.  Matsui asks the question as to whether leadership personnel training is possible in Japanese companies and discusses some possible solutions to this problem.

 

Ryo Wakabayashi, Sumitomo Corporation, "Trends of the American Entertainment Video Industry"

Wakabayashi’s research discusses the entertainment video industry trends in the United States, in particular, the influence of emerging Over-the-Top (OTT) markets in existing entertainment video industry.  Over the past few years, online video streaming services, called “Over-the-Top”, have rapidly become popular and have deprived the subscribers from existing Pay-TV companies.  The reasons why OTT services have taken advantage of existing markets are 1) the infrastructures for their services have drastically improved -- faster internet access speeds and various devices such as smartphones, tablets, and Set-Top-Boxes that are suitable for watching video being released and becoming popular; 2) subscription fees for services are about six times less than the fees for existing Pay TV services like cable TV or satellite TV; and 3) OTT markets have attractive content such as movies, dramas, TV shows, and animated videos and have started producing their own original, high-quality content.  As a result of the growth of the OTT market, Wakabayashi discusses three big trends that are emerging in the video industry in the United States – 1) Video streaming providers are becoming the “New Network”, 2) Large consolidations are emerging and 3) Existing media companies are going toward OTT markets.

Philippines Conference Room

Encina Hall, 3rd floor, Central

Zhao Han PetroChina
Yasunori Matsui Mitsubishi Electric
Ryo Wakabayashi Sumitomo Corporation
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