Risk Management in East Asia: Systems and Frontier Issues

This book is a joint endeavour of the three partner universities to develop a book with in-depth and state-of-art analysis for the academic community of East Asia and the world. Past disasters, like the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake in China and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, saw good efforts of East Asian countries in helping each other. Such a trend has been further strengthened in these countries’ recent cooperation and mutual support in their fight against Covid-19 pandemic. While China, Japan, and South Korea are geographically and culturally contiguous and hence may share some characteristics in their risk management principles and practices, there may also be many significant differences due to their different socioeconomic and political systems. The commonalities and variances in East Asia risk management systems are also reflected by their recent responses to the Covid-19 challenges. While all three countries demonstrated overall success in controlling the epidemic, the measures taken by them were different. This research will be of interest to policymakers, scholars and economists.

About the Author

Jung-Sun Han is a professor at the Division of International Studies, Korea University. Majoring in modern and contemporary Japanese history and culture, Han has worked on the interwar and wartime Japanese political thoughts and the Japan-Korea relationsvia visual culture of modern Japan. Han’s books include, An Imperial Path to Modernity (Harvard University Press, 2013) and Drawing an Empire (co-authored, Seoul, 2006). The latter book, Drawing an Empire, has won the best academic book prize in South Korea and has been translated into Japanese. Currently, Han’s research focuses on spatial politics of heritage making and management among state, civil society, and international community. Han holds her Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington.

Keiichi Ogawa is a Professor/ Department Chair in the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University in Japan. He is also an Honorary Professor at Kyrgyz National University and Affiliate Professor at George Washington University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has served as a Governing Board Member of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and International Advisory Board Member for Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (British Association for International&Comparative Education). His research interest lies in the economics of education, education finance, comparative international education, and public policy on the education sector. He holds his Ph.D. in Comparative International Education and Economics of Education from Columbia University.