About the Author

Donald Macintyre was a 2006-07 Pantech Fellow at Shorenstein APARC. He was the Seoul bureau chief for Time 2001-2006. Daniel C. Sneider is the associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC.The former foreign affairs columnist of the San Jose Mercury News has also written for the New Republic, National Review, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Time, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, the Dallas Morning News, and the Sacramento Bee. Gi-Wook Shin is the director of Shorenstein APARC; the founding director of the Korean Studies Program; senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and associate professor of sociology, all at Stanford University. Shin also coedits the Journal of Korean Studies.