Suchan Chae, a former member of the

National Assembly of Korea The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, often shortened to the National Assembly in domestic English-language media, is the unicameral national legislature of South Korea. Elections to the National Assembly are held every four years. T ...

, is a professor at the

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. He also serves as the chairman of the board of the Han River Society.

Academic and political career

While in the National Assembly, he was a member of the National Policy Committee, which had oversight over the Financial Supervisory Service and the Fair Trade Commission, and also a member of the Finance and Economy Committee, which had oversight over the Ministry of Finance and Economy. He also served as the Special Envoy of President

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to the 2005

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at Davos. During the Asian economic crisis, he advised Korean policy makers including President

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, and wrote columns both in Korean and in English in worldwide newspapers regarding the solutions to the crisis. Before he was elected to the Korean National Assembly, he had been an economics professor at

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for almost 20 years. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics in his native South Korea before coming to the

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, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1985. Suchan Chae's professional publications have mostly been in the areas of bargaining theory, industrial organization, and general economic theory. He has held visiting positions in universities and research institutes in several countries. In South Korea, he has been a visitor at the Korea Development Institute, Korea Information Society Development Institute, and the

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. He has also been as a guest scholar with the

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References

External links

*Homepage
www.chae21.net
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