Jasper Kim is an attorney, author, media contributor, professor, and expert in international business law, negotiation strategy (technology, culture and ethics), and contemporary East–West issues and trends from a socio-economic and legal (interdisciplinary) perspective.

Early life and education

Jasper Kim was born in

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

, Canada. He has lived in six countries, three in Asia (Japan, China, and South Korea) and three in the West (Canada, the US and the UK). His parents emigrated from Seoul, South Korea in the early 1970s. His early years were spent in Canada and the United States. He attended the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

(BA, Economics; BA, Third World Studies), the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

(MSc), University of London (MBA),

Rutgers Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was aff ...

Law School (Doctor of Law), and Christ Church, University of Oxford (MSc Taxation; Faculty of Law and Said Business School). He also received training at Harvard Law School's

Program on Negotiation The Program on Negotiation (PON) is a university consortium dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. As a community of scholars and practitioners, PON serves a unique role in the world negotiation commu ...

. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Career

Kim began his career as an in-house legal counsel for

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merril ...

in Tokyo, Japan working on

non-performing loan A non-performing loan (NPL) is a bank loan that is subject to late repayment or is unlikely to be repaid by the borrower in full. Non-performing loans represent a major challenge for the banking sector, as they reduce profitability. They are ofte ...

s (NPLs),

fixed income Fixed income refers to any type of investment under which the borrower or issuer is obliged to make payments of a fixed amount on a fixed schedule. For example, the borrower may have to pay interest at a fixed rate once a year and repay the pr ...

products, and

structured product A structured product, also known as a market-linked investment, is a pre-packaged structured finance investment strategy based on a single security, a basket of securities, options, indices, commodities, debt issuance or foreign currencies, an ...

s (including derivative products and ABS issuances). He was then recruited to work for

Barclays Capital Barclays PLC (, occasionally ) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services ...

in Hong Kong, China, as part of the Investment Banking division's Structured Products Trading Desk. Kim is currently at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at

Ewha Womans University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's research university in Seoul, South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31, 1886, by missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently, Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest f ...

, in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

, South Korea.Ewha GSIS
home page. His courses include ''International Business Law, International Negotiation Strategy,'' and ''International Finance and Financial Institutions.'' He is also an adjunct faculty member for the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is also a senior fellow at

Melbourne Law School Melbourne Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Melbourne. Located in Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne Law School is Australia's oldest law school, and offers Juris Doctor, J.D., Master of Laws, LL.M, Doctor of P ...

, teaching in both the JD and LLM programs. As a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Kim provided his insight on East Asian law schools at Harvard Law School as well as for the university's Korea Institute. His talks were in part based on his paper, ''Socrates vs. Confucius: An Analysis of South Korea's Implementation of the American Law School Model.'' Kim is the founder and CEO of Asia Pacific Global Research Group, which provides value-added analysis focused on South Korea and the greater Asia-Pacific markets. His clients have included both private sector companies as well as government agencies. He also contributed in launching ohmydocs.com, a student PowerPoint website. Additionally, he has been invited to a diverse array of conferences, such as with Google, Harvard, and the United Nations.

Media

Kim has been featured on Al Jazeera TV, Christian Science Monitor, Voice of America (VOA), among others, and has written several op-eds in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), including "''Asian Education's Failing Grade''", ''"The Iphoning of Korea"'', ''"Korea's Next Credit Boom -- and Bust"'', ''"The Coming Korean Bubble"'', and ''"Korea's Missing Ingredient"''. He has also been featured on global media outlets such as BBC TV, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg TV, CNBC TV, Los Angeles Times, New York Times/

International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' starting in 1967, but its ...

, and

NPR National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

, among others, on issues related to Asia and South Korea.

Publications

Kim writes academic articles, including in journals affiliated with Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of California, the University of Hawaii, and Seoul National University, as well as in ''Global Policy'' (Black-Wiley), ''East Asia: An International Quarterly'', and the ''Korea Journal of Defense Analysis'' (Routledge). He is the author of the following books: *Persuasion: The Hidden Forces That Influence Negotiations (Routledge 2018) *American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the American Legal System *''ABA Fundamentals: International Economic Systems'' *''24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers'' *''Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond'' *''From University Graduate to Master of the Universe: Strategies for Launching a Global Professional Career'' *''Crisis and Change: South Korea in a Post-1997 New Era''Book Link
'Crisis and Change: South Korea in a Post-1997 New Era'' (Ewha Womans University Press, 2005)

References

External links

Asia-Pacific Global Research Group

24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers
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