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Je-Kook Chung is currently the program/project coordinator at the Asian Affairs Center and Missouri International Training Institute, and is an instructor of Korean studies at the University of Missouri. Je-Kook coordinates the Global Leadership and Asian Scholars programs for professionals from Asian countries, as well as the Intercollegiate Mastery Program and Cultural Training and the Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow program for college students with an agricultural background from Korea. He also teaches about the relationship between the East Asian and U.S. economies at MU. He completed his Ph.D. in agricultural economics at MU in 2008.