Jasper Kim

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

Jasper Kim was born in Toronto, Canada. He has lived in six countries, three in Asia (Japan, China, and South Korea) and three in the West (Canada, United States and England). His parents emigrated from Seoul, South Korea in the early 1970s. His early years were spent in Canada and the United States.

Education

He attended the University of California, San Diego (BA, Economics; BA, Third World Studies), the London School of Economics (MSc), University of London (MBA), and Rutgers University School of Law (Juris Doctor, Law). He also received training at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Jasper Kim began his career as an in-house legal counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo, Japan working on non-performing loans (NPLs), fixed income products, and structured products (including derivative products and ABS issuances). He was then recruited to work for Barclays Capital 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 Woman's University, in Seoul, South Korea. 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, teaching in both the JD and LLM programs.

As a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Jasper 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

Jasper Kim is a regular media contributor. He 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, and NPR, among others, on issues related to Asia and South Korea.

Publications

Jasper 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:

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

• Ewha GSIS, home page.
• Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, official website
• http://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/jasper-kim
• "EALS Affiliates & Application". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-26. 
• "ILS Events Fall 2011 Archive". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• United States (2010-04-29). "Korea Institute event link". Korea.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• "Journal Article link". Hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Asia Pacific Global, official website
• "Ohmydocs". Ohmydocs. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• Big Tent Seoul 2012. Google. 2012-10-18. URL:http://www.google.com/intl/en/events/bigtent2012korea/speakers.html. Accessed: 2012-10-18. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BWKIH95w)
• \"Mapping the Globalization of Legal Education: What is a \'Global Law School\'?\". . 2012-10-18. URL:http://korea.fas.harvard.edu/events/2011/10/21/mapping-globalization-legal-education-what-global-law-school. Accessed: 2012-10-18. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BWKtVmno)
• UNESCAP. 2012-10-18. URL:http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publications/survey2011/notes/rok.asp. Accessed: 2012-10-18. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6BWKzcqv0)
• Kim, Jasper (2012-02-29). "WSJ Article". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• JASPER KIM. "WSJ Article". Maybemaybe.tistory.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Kim, Jasper (2009-12-07). "WSJ Article". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Kim, Jasper (2009-10-12). "WSJ Article". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Kim, Jasper (2012-08-22). "Business Asia: Korea's Missing Ingredient - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• "BBC TV Link". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Jasper, Prof (2011-12-31). "BBC News Link". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• "BBC News Link". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Buckley, Sarah (2005-02-10). "Link". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• Bloomberg Article Link Daley Says Obama May Submit Korea Trade Bill
• Bloomberg Article Link Six Party Talks on North Korea Are Useless, Jasper Kim Says
• "Bloomberg TV Interview Link". Dailymotion.com. 2011-12-19. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• "CNBC Video Interview". Video.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• John M. Glionna (December 20, 2011). "In South Korea, defectors see death of Kim as offering hope". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• NY Times Article Link
• NY Times Article
• "NPR Video Link". Video.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2012-08-31. 
• NPR Article Link Deep Divisions on Display at G-20 Summit
• "Law of War 2.0: Cyberwar and the Limits of the UN Charter - Kim - 2011 - Global Policy - Wiley Online Library". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• "East Asia, Volume 23, Number 4". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rkjd20/21/2
• "ABA Fundamentals: International Economic Systems". Apps.americanbar.org. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• "24 Hours with 24 Lawyers: Profiles of Traditional and Non-Traditional Careers (9780314276315): Jasper Kim: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-04-22. 
• Book Link Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond (Carolina Academic Press, 2010)
• Book Link From University Graduate to Master of the Universe: Strategies for Launching a Global Professional Career (Ewha Woman's University Press, 2006, with Bliss Pak and Eugene Yun)
• Book LinkCrisis and Change: South Korea in a Post-1997 New Era (Ewha Woman's University Press, 2005)