Professor Kun-Hyung Kang obtained his Ph.D degree from Sogang University in 1995. His field is International Relations, especially Theory of International Politics, Northeast Asian international Relations including the Korean Peninsula. He worked at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of Korea as a researcher. He has been a Professor at Jeju National University since 1984. He served as a visiting scholar in University of Michigan, U.S.A.(1999-2000) and a research professor at Keio University, Japan(2000-2001). He was a dean of the College of Social Science (2012-2014) and served as a director of the Institute of Peace Studies and the Institute of East Asian Affairs in Jeju National University. He was also a policy consultant in the Ministry of Unification and is serving as a member of the steering committee of Jeju Peace Unification Forum and an advisory member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Democratic and Peaceful Unification. He has published many articles, including “Changes in U.S.- China Relations and Korea’s Response”(2016) and The Political Economy of U.S.-Japanese Relations: American Hegemony and the Challenge of Japan (2003).