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AMCHAM Foreign Professionals Committee Meeting
               
               
  ?SPEAKER Dr. Garett Jones
Professor of Economics, George Mason University Korea
 
       
  ?TOPIC Is Korea becoming less global? New research on Korean finance and innovation  
       
  ?DATE Thursday, May 19th, 2016  
       
  ?TIME 7:30am - 8:00am: Registration
8:00am - 9:30am: Breakfast / Speech / Q&A / Networking
 
       
  ?VENUE Millennium Seoul Hilton, Junior Ballroom (B1 Fl.)
 
       
  ?COST KRW46,000 for members
KRW56,000 for non-members
 
       
  ?RSVP/PAYMENT BY Noon, Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
*No refunds for cancellations made after this date and time.
*For walk-ins, additional KRW10,000 will be charged.
 
       
  ?CONTACT (email) amchamrsvp@amchamkorea.org, (phone) 82.2.6201.2200  
       
       
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  ABOUT THE SPEAKER  
               
      Garett Jones
Garett Jones is a senior scholar and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center and an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and how cognitive skills shape national prosperity.
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  MESSAGE FROM CO-CHAIRS  
               
    Dear AMCHAM Members,

“South Korean stocks already trade at a steep ‘Korean discount’ because of the opacity and corporate-governance risk endemic to a chaebol-dominated economy,” says the Wall Street Journal. Major investment banks are considering pulling out of South Korea entirely. Is Korea’s economic inflexibility creating a costly and destructive “Koreasclerosis”? Did the promised reforms after the 1997 financial crisis pay off, or were they lip service? Which elements of the chaebol boost Korean prosperity, and which help insiders only at the expense of outsiders?

Economist Garett Jones of George Mason University will connect the latest academic research on the chaebol to the risks facing the Korean economy. South Korea currently has the 30th highest standard of living in the world. Will it climb into the top 20 with nations like Taiwan and Sweden, or will it instead drift down toward countries ranked in the 40’s like Malaysia and Greece? How Seoul treats competition, especially foreign competition, will be a major part of the answer.

AMCHAM Foreign Professionals Committee Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Bohn / Jeremy Everett
   
               
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