Duol Kim is a professor of economics at Myongji University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. His research focuses on economic history (Korea and East Asia), and law and economics. He was the president of the Asian Historical Economics Society and the Korean Law and Economics Association. He is currently an associate editor of the Asian Journal of Law and Economics and previously served as an editor of the Review of Economic History (a Korean journal) and the guest editor of the Asian-Pacific Economic History Review Special Issue.