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.