The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce that General (ret.) Byung Kwan Kim will join the Center for the 2008-2009 academic year as the first recipient of the Koret Fellowship in the Center’s Korean Studies Program.

General Kim’s expertise in security affairs will be a significant asset to the policy-oriented research activities of our center,” said Professor Gi-Wook Shin, the Center’s director.
While at the Center, General Kim will lead a research project on Korean Peninsula security, including organizing a policy-related conference that will bring Koreans, Americans, and potentially others from the region together to engage in high-level discussions aimed at producing a report for the policymaking community.

The Koret Fellowship, generously funded by the Koret Foundation of San Francisco, was established to bring leading professionals in Asia and the United States to Stanford to conduct research on contemporary U.S.-Korean relations, with the broad aim of fostering greater understanding and closer ties between the two countries.