About the NTU-Kim Koo Professor
Each year, the College of Social Sciences and the Global Asia Research Center organize invite a globally renowned scholar, serving as the NTU-Kim Koo Professor and teaching a mini-course. This annual NTU-Kim Koo Professorship Lecture Series enable students and faculty members to exchange scholar ideas with distinguished scholars beyond Taiwan.
This year, the GARC is honored to have Professor Gi-Wook SHIN from Stanford University as the NTU-Kim Koo Professor. Professor Shin is the founding director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Korean Studies Program at Stanford University. He is also a professor in the Department of Sociology and the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea. He has authored several outstanding works exploring social movements, nationalism, international relations in Korea, and social innovation and talent migration in East Asia.
In his mini-course “Talent Giants in the Asia-Pacific Century” at National Taiwan University, he explores how major countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Australia, China, India, and South Korea, utilize different strategies to attract international talent, the challenges these policies face, and their impact on other countries (including Taiwan). The course also includes a public lecture on how South Korea’s social sentiment has shifted from anti-Japanese to anti-Chinese.
