Dr. Chung previously served as Senior Vice President of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), where he also led its departments of International Trade and Asia-Pacific and directed the Korea National Center for APEC Studies. He was Chief Economist at the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) in Washington, D.C., and Assistant Professor of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He has also served as Senior Trade Advisor to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy; a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning; and a member of advisory committees to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance.
His academic and editorial appointments have included adjunct professorships at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies and the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the East Asian Economic Review, the Journal of East Asian Economic Integration, and the Journal of International Trade and Industry Studies.