President's Message
Dear KAFA Members, Friends, and Supporters,
Greetings from Singapore!
I hope all of you have had a productive and healthy summer to make a refreshing change in the new semester.
I am pleased to announce that Professor Youngsoo Kim at University of Regina has been selected as president-elect, who will take over leadership beginning November 2012. Congratulations! I also welcome our two newly elected Secretary Generals, Professor Soku Byoun at Baylor University and Professor Joong Hyuk Kim at Korea University. They will join Professor Sung C. Bae at Bowling Green State University, our next president, to serve KAFA beginning November 2011. We thank Professor Kee H. Chung at SUNY at Buffalo for handling the nomination and election process.
I would like to express my great gratitude to Secretary General Professor Young Sang Kim at Northern Kentucky University and Professor Kyojik “Roy” Song at Sungkyunkwan University who have served for our association for the past three years. It would have been much more difficult for me to carry out my duty as president without their passion and sacrifice for our association.
One of KAFA’s main goals is to assist our members in developing their academic careers by recognizing their outstanding scholarly accomplishments. I thank Professors Kee H. Chung and Sung C. Bae for their excellent service as KAFA research award nomination committee. I also recognize the immense efforts and contributions of the KAFA research award selection committee members -- Professors Kee H. Chung at SUNY at Buffalo, Hoje Jo at Santa Clara University and Seungmook Choi at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
I also would like to take an opportunity to thank those who have supported our association to get involved in various activities. Financial News and Shinhan Bank have generously provided financial assistance for our best paper and dissertation awards. I also thank the Korea Institute of Finance and the Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI) for sponsoring the KAFA annual meeting dinner.
It was my great pleasure and honor to host the historic 20th anniversary of KAFA International conference with the full support of all our members. The joint conference with KCMI provided a venue to promote the interchange of new ideas and opinions between local and international scholars and solidify friendships among KAFA members. It was also a great opportunity for us to rethink our mission and the goals that we’re aiming to achieve in the coming years. I thank all your participations and support to the memorable anniversary event.
Finally, I would like to encourage all KAFA members to attend two KAFA FMA sessions organized by Professor Sung C. Bae and Allied Korean Finance Associations and the annual KAFA business meeting. (see below for details)
I look forward to our reunion in Denver.
Best regards,
Jun-koo Kang
President of KAFA
