President's Message
Greetings to all KAFA Members and Supporters!
First of all, I would like to thank former president Hoje Jo for his service and welcome presidentelect Jun-Koo Kang on behalf of all KAFA members. I would also like to thank Professors Bong Chan Kho (Vice-President), Young Sang Kim (Secretary General), Kyojik Song (Secretary General, Korea), and Jang-Chul Kim (Treasurer) for their dedicated services.
To further strengthen the cooperative relation between the two associations and to solicit high quality papers for the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (AJFS), the Korean Securities Association (KSA) has decided to invite 3 or 4 papers from KAFA members for inclusion in the program of the Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM) and provide a partial travel support (see below for details) to paper presenters. As usual, the conference will be held in Seoul on the first Saturday of December. The authors of selected papers are obligated to submit their papers to AJFS for review and possible publication.
AJFS is published by KSA and is the first SSCI-listed journal in Asia in the Business and Finance category. Recently KSA has chosen Wiley-Blackwell as the publisher of AJFS from 2010 in an effort to raise its international visibility and reputation. KAFA members are strongly encouraged to submit papers to the journal as well as cite papers published in AJFS in their works, especially in the papers to be published in SSCI-listed journals.
KAFA and the Allied Korea Finance Associations have agreed to maintain and strengthen their bilateral relationship through various activities. Among others, KAFA and its Korean counterparts have agreed to closely collaborate in the formation of two KAFA-FMA joint sessions at the annual FMA conference and in the determination of session participants. The Allied Korea Finance Associations advertise and promote Korean doctoral students’ attendance at the FMA conference and KAFA provides financial support to each doctoral student from Korea who presents a paper at the FMA conference. The Allied Korea Finance Associations continue to provide a partial travel support to KAFA members who present papers at the May joint conference in Korea and KAFA makes it clear to members that the support is a part of collaboration between KAFA and its Korean counterparts. KAFA makes every effort to raise the quality of papers to be presented at the conference.
I am pleased to announce that KAFA and the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) have agreed to hold a joint conference in 2011 to celebrate their respective 20th year anniversary. Further details on the conference will be provided later as they become available.
Last but not least, I would like to express my sincere and deepest gratitude to our sister institutions and supporters. Financial News (FN) and Shinhan Bank have continued to provide financial support for our best paper and dissertation awards. In particular, I would like to thank President Jeon of FN for the generous support he has provided to KAFA. I would also like to thank the Korea Institute of Finance (KIF) and its President Tae-Joon Kim for sponsoring the KAFA annual meeting dinner and the Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI) and its Vice President Sung Hoon Cho for sponsoring the KAFA special dinner at the FMA conference.
Best wishes,
Kee H. Chung
2010 President of KAFA
SUNY at Buffalo
