Chanwoo Lee is an Associate Professor at Teikyo University in Tokyo. In 1998 and 1999 before going to Japan, he was a member of the Central Committee of the National Unification Advisory Council of South Korea, which is a constitutional institution to advise the President on the formulation of peaceful unification policy. After coming to Japan, he has experienced careers at ERINA as a visiting researcher in Niigata. He is also working as a Specially Appointed Fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo. He is an author of articles and research papers on Korea Peninsula issues including economic cooperation among northeast Asian region, for example, “Northeast Asia Policies of South and North Korea”, Changing Economic Map in Northeast Asia, Bunshindo, Tokyo (2017)