Korea National Strategy Institute (KNSI) is an independent, nonpartisan, and not-for-profit public research institution dedicated to developing policy recommendations on Korea's domestic politics and foreign relations, economy and trade, and social and cultural issues. KNSI seeks to accomplish reconciliation and reunification between South and North Korea based on the principles of independence, democracy, and peace, thereby contributing to enduring peace in East Asia and the world.

>> Mission Statement

As a public institute, Korea National Strategy Institute dedicates to producing and disseminating policy alternatives in the areas of domestic and foreign affairs, economy and trade, and social Cohesion issues. It also seeks to provide national policy that contributes to world peace and realization of Korean reunification in the principle based on independence, democracy, and peace.

>> Background

South Korea has undergone tremendous political and socioeconomic transformations over the past few decades. It accomplished impressive economic growth in the 1960s and the 1970s, achieved democratization in the 1980s, weathered a serious financial crisis and carried out market reforms in the 1990s. These transformations resulted in the emergence and empowerment of the "new mainstream" in Korean society, with different values, orientations, and outlooks on domestic politics, economic and social policies, and foreign relations. KNSI aims to discover, articulate, and represent the views of Korea's "new mainstream" by exploring and developing policy recommendations on diverse political, economic, and social issues Korea is currently confronted with, in order to provide a new national strategy that helps to achieve peaceful reunification of Korea.

>> People

Executive Director, Program Manager
Park, Sun Song Ph.D.

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of North Korean Studies, College of Social Sciences, Dongguk University(3-26, Pil-dong, Chung-gu, Seoul, 100-715, South Korea; Tel: +82-2-2260-3838, +82-17-297-9402; Fax: +82-2-2260-3940; sunsong@dongguk.edu)
Education: Ph.D. (Economics), University of Paris-X (Nanterre); M.A. (Economics), University of Paris-X (Nanterre); B.A. (Economics), Seoul National University.
Major Publications: North Korean Economy and the Unification of the Korean Peninsula, Adam Smith and Ilberalism.
Research Field: Unification Policy of the Korean Peninsula, Inter-Korean Economic Relationship, Socio-Economic Thought.

Secretary General
Kim, Kyoung-Sun

Current Position: Secretary General, KNSI (email: kskim@knsi.org) Education and Experience: Department of German Literature, Yonsei University; active participation in pro-democracy movement Major Previous Positions: Secretary General, Korea Institute for Future Strategies; Director, Public Relations and General Affairs Bureaus, Korea Science and Technology Labor Union.