Kim, Hee Su
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Executive Vice President, KT Economics and Management Research Institute
Dr. Kim is Executive Vice President at KT where he is head of Economics and Management Research
Institute, an in-house management consulting organization. Last year he co-authored two books,
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, a Korean Way and The 10 ICT Trends That Will Transform Korea in
2018, reflecting recent areas of research at his organization. In the former book, he argues that the
ICT-based Fourth Industrial Revolution (to much more extent than what mankind experienced in the
previous industrial revolutions) is a two-edged sword that involves the risk of aggravating economic
and social inequality (due to the ‘skill-biased’ nature of recent technologies) as well as the opportunities
of empowering human beings enabled by ICT (AI and 5G mobile networks in particular), proposing big
public-private partnerships (a Digital New Deal) directed at solving social problems and making the
upcoming transformation benefit all by means of ICT.
Prior to joining KT in 2011, Dr. Kim was a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Information Society
Development Institute (KISDI) (1995-2010). (KISDI is a government-sponsored research institute
specializing in ICT policy.) During his career at KISDI, he authored numerous policy reports and was
actively engaged in the government’s policy making for telecom regulation and ICT industry development.
He also published several scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals including the Review of Network
Economics, Information Economics and Policy, Economics Letters, and Telecommunications Policy.
He obtained his B.A. in Economics from Korea University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Economics from
UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 1992.