Connecting Washington and Seoul through business, entrepreneurship, research, innovation, and leadership.
Established in 2015, KMI was the first institute at an American university dedicated to Korean management.
Today, we bring Korea and the world together around MSMEs, innovation, global research, and dialogue — advancing ideas that shape more entrepreneurial and human-centered economies.
The relationship between George Washington University and Korea stretches back more than a century — from the first Korean students at GW through today's KMI programs, research, entrepreneurship, and institutional partnerships.
Syngman Rhee earns his A.B. from GW — and later becomes the first president of the Republic of Korea.
GW awards Rhee an honorary Doctor of Laws, deepening a half-century of institutional ties.
KMI is founded at the GW School of Business, with the support of Hyundai Mobis and ICSB.
Research, executive education, and the Global Korean Entrepreneurship Forum bridge Washington and Seoul.
Explore the people, ideas, values, and companies that shaped Korean entrepreneurship — a five-century journey from a 16th-century Joseon scholar's academy to the global enterprises of today.
A digital museum experience tracing how neo-Confucian principles traveled from Jinju to the boardrooms of Samsung, LG, and Hyosung.
Enter the ExhibitionHow KMI carries the GW–Korea relationship forward today.
Scholarship on Korean SMEs, entrepreneurship, and innovation — shared with policymakers and practitioners.
Open-enrollment seminars, custom programs, study-abroad and online courses.
A Washington platform for business, policy, and academic exchange between the two countries.
Forums, cohorts, and research on the engines of the Korean innovation economy.
Convening leaders from government, industry, and academia across the Washington–Seoul corridor.
Institutional updates, research coverage, and commentary from the Institute.
In the second installment of 'The Measure of Nations' for Korea's Etoday, Ayman El Tarabishy follows Mahbub ul Haq from the 1968 speech that demolished his own growth model to the Human Development Index he built with Amartya Sen — and asks what GDP and the HDI both leave unmeasured: whether the lives of those doing the creating are actually working.
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In the first installment of 'The Measure of Nations' for Korea's Etoday, KMI Executive Director Ayman El Tarabishy traces how GDP was born with Simon Kuznets's forgotten 1934 warning — and why growth and prosperity have now parted ways in the wealthiest economies.
Read at the publisher코로나19로 인하여 전세계 여행 산업이 심각하게 위축된 상황 속에서도, 다수의 여행 분야 리더들은 2021년 하반기에는 업계의 상황이 크게 개선될 것으로 전망하고 있다. 이러한 리더들의 컨센서스는 경영컨설팅사…
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For more than four decades, Professor Yoon Shik Park helped connect Korea, global finance, and George Washington University through scholarship, teaching, mentorship, and service.
A former World Bank senior economist, scholar of Korea’s economy, and Samsung Corporation board member, Professor Park’s influence extended from the classroom to the international financial community.
His legacy continues through the Yoon Shik Park Assistant or Associate Professorship of International Business, endowed by his wife, Heawon Kang Park, in 2025.
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