National Endowment for Democracy
"The Politics of Economic Reform and Civil Society Responses"
December 9-11, 1999
Sejong Institute, Sungnam, Korea
Introduction

Session I: Providing Democratic Leadership

Session II: Conflicting Interests and Strategies of Governmental Actors in Effecting Economic Reform

Session III: Civil Society’s Response to the Economic Reform Agenda

Agenda

Participants

Agenda


December 9, 1999

Welcoming Reception and Dinner
  Hosted by Dalchoong Kim, President of the Sejong Institute

December 10, 1999

Opening Remarks
  Speakers:
    Larry Diamond, National Endowment for Democracy
    Jong Wan Kim, Sejong Institute

Session I: Providing Democratic Leadership
  Chair: Jong Wan Kim, Sejong Institute
  Lead Speaker: Yoo-bae Kim, Presidential Secretary for Welfare and Labor

Lunch

Session II: Conflicting Interests and Strategies of Governmental Actors in Effecting Economic Reform
  Chair: Ron May, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
  Lead Speaker: Ernesto Garilao, Garilao and Associates

Dinner

December 11, 1999

Session III: Civil Society's Response to and Shaping of the Economic Reform Agenda
  Chair:Larry Diamond, NED
  Lead Speakers: Pusadee Tamthai, Women in Politics Institute
                          Hasung Jang, Korea University

Closing Luncheon