Sang-young Rhyu is a professor of political economy at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Yonsei University, majoring in Korean political economy. He served as a senior research fellow at the Samsung Economic Research Institute (1995-2001) and was a visiting professor at Keio University in Japan (1992-1994), the University of British Columbia (2009-2010), and the University of Toronto (2018-2019) in Canada. As the director of the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum (2004-2009), he researched and collected numerous historical records and assembled the Kim Dae-jung Oral History Collection. He has published many articles on the political economy and history of Kim Dae-jung and Park Chung Hee. He is also the editor of EAF Policy Debates. His major publications include The Spirit of Korean Development (2015) and The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea: Twenty Years of the Crisis (2019).