In this regard, the materials published herein can be construed as a summary of all the research that has been conducted at KIEP over the past 20 years, or since our foundation in 1990. These include reports prepared by KIEP’s various research teams that have been published such as Policy Research, Regional Economic Focus and Policy Analysis; our research on current issues featured in journals as KIEP World Economy Update; monthly magazines such as KIEP World Economy; the bi-monthly magazine OECD FOCUS; working papers such as the Journal of International Economic Studies; and other periodicals. The research included in this collection can in many ways be regarded as the fruit of the wisdom and sweat dispensed by our research teams since KIEP’s foundation.