Moon Chung-in

Dr. Moon majored in Chinese philosophy at Yonsei University and went to the United States in 1978 to study international relations at the University of Maryland. He received his master and doctoral degrees there, and got his first teaching job at Williams College in 1984. He moved to the University of Kentucky, Lexington in 1985 and taught there until 1994. He returned to Yonsei University, his alma mater, in 1994, and taught there until his retirement in 2016.[4]

Moon was dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. He has published over 60 books and 300 articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals. He also served as president of the Korea Peace Studies Association and Vice President of the International Studies Association (ISA) of North America. He was a recipient of the Public Policy Award (Woodrow Wilson International Center), the Lixian Scholarship (Beijing University), and the Pacific Leadership Fellowship (University of California, San Diego).[5]

Moon has had a number of varied roles. He was an advisor to various agencies of the South Korean government, including the National Security Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Unification, and the National Intelligence Service. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on National Intelligence Reform and a member of the Presidential Commission on Defense Reform during the Roh Moo-hyun administration. Dr. Moon was a special delegate to the first (2000) and second (2007) Korean summits, both of which were held in Pyongyang. He is currently a board member of the Pacific Century Institute, the Asia Research Fund, and the Korea Peace Forum. He was also chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Korea.[6]

Moon served as adviser to Kim Dae-jung, South Korea’s president from 1998 until 2003, and to Roh Moo-hyun, who held the presidency from 2003 until 2008.[7] During the Roh Moo-hyun administration, he served as Ambassador for International Security Affairs of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative, a cabinet-level post.

Moon was one of the architects of the Sunshine Policy, and advocates, and calls for, the revival of the engagement policy, which seeks the thawing of relations with North Korea and the Government of North Korea.[8] Moon believes that every other option including sanctions and pressures, military actions, containment, and waiting for the regime in Pyongyang to collapse has failed. Moon has blamed US administrations, particularly that of former President George W. Bush, for disrupting the effects of the Sunshine Policy, which had some initial successes before the policy was cancelled in 2008.[2][9]

• Chung-in Moon (1988). The Korean economy in transition: political consequences of neoconservative reforms. Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
• CHUNG IN MOON (1996). Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula: Domestic Perceptions, Regional Dynamics, International Penetrations. 연세대학교출판부. ISBN 978-89-7141-412-5. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
• Chung-in Moon (8 August 1999). Air power dynamics and Korean security. Yonsei University Press. ISBN 978-89-7141-474-3. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
• Chung-in Moon (2012). The Sunshine Policy. Yonsei University Press. ISBN 978-89-7141-479-8. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
• Chung-in Moon. Exploring the Future of China (in Korean 2010 in Korean and 2012 in Chinese).