Professor Kim Seok Hwan is president of the ‘Korea Institute for Eurasian Studies’, and visiting professor of Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies. Professor Kim had formerly served as a long-time journalist at JoongAng Ilbo, Korea’s leading daily. He served two terms as a Moscow correspondent and has been active for many years as an editor of world affairs and editorial writer. Healso served as an advisor tothe National Security Council, and a member of the Presidential Committee of Policy Planning. Later, he joined the government as senior press secretary to the Prime Minister. After that,t he worked as a research fellow at KIET and vice-president of Jusung Univ.