The KDI School of Public Policy and Management is pleased to announce an international conference to be jointly organized with Seikei University, Japan. The conference will discuss issues in comparative school finance and school choice in Korea and Japan. The tentative program is as follows. Students and faculty members are welcome to join the conference. For planning purposes, those planning to attend are cordially requested to RSVP as soon as possible with either Jaesoon Lee (ljs@kdischool.ac.kr) or Taejong Kim (tjkim@kdischool.ac.kr).

[Tentative Conference Program]

* Place: KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul
* Time: September 15, 2006

* Schedule

I. Session 1: School Finance and School Choice in Korea

▣ 09:15-09:30 Reception

▣ 09:30-10:50 School finance and school choice in Korea (Young Lee, Hanyang University) / Discussant Yoshihisa Godo (Meiji Gakuin University)

▣ 10:50-11:00 Coffee Break

▣ 11:00-12:20 School quality and demand for private tutoring in Korea (Taejong Kim, KDI School) / Discussant Tomoo Inoue (Seikei University)

▣ 12:20-13:30 Lunch


II. School Finance and School Choice in Japan

▣ 13:30-14:50 Demographic structure and public spending on education in Japan (Tomoo Inoue, Seikei University; Hitoshi Ohshige, Seikei University; Yasuhiro Nakagami, Seikei University) / Discussant Yoonha Yoo (KDI School)

▣ 14:50-15:00 Coffee Break

▣ 15:00-16:20 Tax decisions, local public expenditures, and economic welfare (Yasuhiro Nakagami, Seikei University) / Discussant Junghun Kim (Korea Insititute for Public Finance)


Jae-soon Lee

Academic Program Coordinator
Academic and Student Affairs Division
KDI School of Public Policy and Management
207-43, Cheongnyangni2-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-868, Korea

Tel: 82-2-3299-1259 Fax: 82-2-968-5071
Cel. 82-11-9719-0328 Email: ljs@kdischool.ac.kr
Homepage: www.kdischool.ac.kr