Join us for a breakfast roundtable discussion with Yi Jong-Goo, standing commissioner of Korea’s Financial Services Commission, as he discusses the current state of the Korean economy and South Korea’s game plan for navigating the global recession. This event is a unique opportunity to hear from a senior representative of South Korea's top financial regulatory body. The Financial Services Commission is charged with protecting the integration of Korea’s financial markets by promoting a sound credit system and fair business practices. 

Headline grabbing rallies against American beef imports last year cast doubt for some observers over the image of South Korea as a dynamic, outward-looking member of the international economic community. The Korean government, eager to portray South Korea as friendly to foreign business, is now facing a multi-year decline in Foreign Direct Investment in the wake of domestic protests and a series of highly publicized investigations and court cases against American companies.

Over the past eighteen months Korea has been buffeted by a financial crisis spreading out from the U.S. and Europe, a commodity boom and bust, followed by a global trade implosion. The era of "Great Moderation" gave way to unprecedented volatility. How is Korea coping and what lies ahead?