Koo, Min Gyo
Position : Professor, Dept. of Public Administration
Research interests : Korean Industrial Policy and Developmental State, Global Public Administration, International Trade Policy, East Asian Maritime Disputes, East Asian Economic Regionalism
I am a Professor at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Administration and currently serve as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Irvine’s Korea Law Center. My teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of East Asian and Korean studies with a focus on the region’s fluid geo-economic landscape and volatile geo-political seascape.
I am the author of The Political Economy and Law of International Trade: Between Free Trade Ideals and Mercantilist Bias (2021, Parkyoungsa, in Korean) and Island Disputes and Maritime Regime Building in East Asia: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2010, Springer) and the co-author of The Korean Government and Public Policies in a Development Nexus: Sustaining Development and Tackling Policy Changes – Volume 2 (edited with Jongwon Choi and Huck-ju Kwon, 2017, Springer), The Korean Government and Public Policies in a Development Nexus – Volume 1 (edited with Huck-ju Kwon, 2013, Springer), and Asia’s New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial, and Security Relations (edited with Vinod K. Aggarwal, 2008, Springer).
Aside from many book chapters, I have published my research in a wide range of journals, including Ocean Development & International Law, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, The Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, Asian Perspective, European Journal of East Asia Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Journal of International and Area Studies.
From fall 2005 to spring 2007, I served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies and as a full-time lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Prior to my move to SNU, I taught at Yonsei University in South Korea from fall 2007 to spring 2010. I also served as 2015-2016 Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. My administrative services for SNU include Associate Dean and Dean of International Affairs (2016 – 2020) and Dean of Student Affairs (2021).
I hold a BA in Political Science/International Relations and an MA in Public Policy from SNU and an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. I can be reached at mgkoo@snu.ac.kr.
