I am an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Dongguk University, where I have taught courses on Korean economic history, among others. My research interests include economic growth, income and wealth inequality, and income redistribution. I played a leading role in compiling long-term economic statistics for Korea, culminating in the publication of The Historical Statistics of Korea (2022, co-edited). The results of my estimates on historical national accounts and income concentration are included in the Maddison Project Database and the World Inequality Database, respectively, as Korean data. I have authored numerous papers and books on the growth and distribution of the Korean economy, including The Korean Economy under Japanese Colonial Rule (2002) and The History of Economic Growth in Korea (2023).

Frederick Solt is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa. His interests include comparative political behavior, comparative public opinion, and political economy. Much of his work has focused on understanding how the extent of economic inequality shapes political attitudes and behavior. He created and maintains the Standardized World Income Inequality Database, which provides the most-comparable data available on income inequality for cross-national research, and he leads the Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Lab, which draws on thousands of surveys to provide cross-nationally comparable estimates of trends in public opinion.