Organizational Structure
Handong International ISD · Mediation Center
Shin Eun Joo
President
Handong International ISD · Mediation Center
Where there are people, there are always disputes and conflicts. Since people all have their own
thoughts and desires, the existence of conflicts and disputes are considered a normal phenomenon.
However, if these disputes and conflicts are not controlled, people would put up emotional walls which
would lead to cutting ties with people. Because of this, our society would have to pay a large amount
for the cost of conflict. Therefore we need to be able to control and solve the disputes and conflicts
that are happening in our society in order to build peace. The Handong International ISD · Mediation
Center in Handong Global University was established on May 18th, 2021 to peacefully solve the ongoing
disputes and conflicts and promote peace in our world.
Handong International ISD · Mediation Center solves conflicts between people through consultation and
arbitration in each of its specialized centers. It studies and educates on how to actively solve
disputes through adjustment and mediation. HIAR also runs a clinic in order to solve actual
conflicts/disputes and especially tries to look for ways to solve not only domestic disputes but
international disputes through voluntary methods. HIAR especially tries to carry out its plan in
cultivating mediators and arbitrators to solve conflicts between church members, church disputes,
marriage issues of migrant workers and migrant women etc. Also, in order to provide solutions for
disputes between governments and investors, international commercial disputes, and other international
disputes, HIAR will try to be an institute that performs its role as a think tank and offer creative
alternatives through empirical study.
In the future, Handong International ISD · Mediation Center will try to improve the educating programs
for cultivating not only internationalized negotiators, but facilitators and arbitrators as well and
fulfill its mission in building peace between people as mediators. Furthermore, HIAR will try its best
to live up to its name as an education institute that cultivates negotiators, mediators and arbitrators.
We ask for your interest and support.
Thank you.
Prof. Jae-Chun Won
International ISD Center
Korea has the world's 10th largest economy and there is much commercial investment for inbound and outbound. As trade and commerce increase in volume and nature, there are also various disputes and they call for an international and national mechanism to resolve the matter of dispute practically, efficiently, and amicably in a relatively short amount of time. The ISD center deals with matters dealing Investor-State Dispute Settlement both nationally and internationally. As we saw in a recent case with Lone Star and the Republic of Korea, the stake of ISDS is high and the State is no longer immune to a private cause of action and there is a need for protecting the interest of investors as well as respecting government’s public interest action based on the principle of free market economy, democracy, and rule of law. The Center will conduct research on ISD cases from a national and comparative law perspective as well as provide the platform for ISD professionals and academics to interact and edify each other in the context of informal and formal settings such as seminars, workshops, training, certificate program, academic program, and publications as reports, journal articles, issue briefing. We look forward to collaborating with all the stakeholders and professionals who would mound the ISD mechanism in a more foreseeable, proficient, reasonable manner so that the outcome of ISD settlement would be fair, nationally, and internationally agreeable.
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International Arbitration Center
Warm greetings.
Welcome to Handong Institute for Arbitration and Reconciliation!
It is truly an honor and a joy to see the establishment of HIAR at Handong Global University in
Pohang, South Korea. It has never been more timely to open HIAR than at this time.
The use of alternative dispute resolutions has been greatly increasing and has been playing an
important role in the international society. More importantly, conflict resolution has been playing an
essential role in peacemaking.
With the establishment of HIAR, we train and educate students, legal practitioners, and any one
interested in conflict resolutions to be peacemakers through the use of arbitration and mediation. We
hope that HIAR will be a place where people get trained and be sent out to be peacemakers of the
world.
We pray and look forward to communities coming together and conflicts being resolved peacefully
through HIAR.
We thank you for your support and prayers. All praise and glory to God.
Shin Eun Joo
Mediation Center
Prof. Kim Semee
Deputy Director of the Mediation Center
Warm greetings.
Welcome to Handong Institute for Arbitration and Reconciliation!
It is truly an honor and a joy to see the establishment of HIAR at Handong Global University in
Pohang, South Korea. It has never been more timely to open HIAR than at this time.
The use of alternative dispute resolutions has been greatly increasing and has been playing an
important role in the international society. More importantly, conflict resolution has been playing an
essential role in peacemaking.
With the establishment of HIAR, we train and educate students, legal practitioners, and any one
interested in conflict resolutions to be peacemakers through the use of arbitration and mediation. We
hope that HIAR will be a place where people get trained and be sent out to be peacemakers of the
world.
We pray and look forward to communities coming together and conflicts being resolved peacefully
through HIAR.
We thank you for your support and prayers. All praise and glory to God.
Prof. Lee Sang Ho
Center for Law and Global Mission
John Park
Education Center
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