This collection is the product of a joint project between ASEAN University Network (AUN) and Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies (KASEAS) on the “Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia and Korea: Its Social, Political, and Cultural Impacts." It was sponsored by the Secretariat of ASEAN and the government of the Republic of Korea. For this project, a workshop for the organizing staff members of Southeast Asia and Korea within economic, social, political, and cultural fields hosted by the KASEAS, was conducted on 15-18 September 1999 at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. On the basis of the preparatory discussions by the staff members at the workshop and the subsequent researchers by selected Southeast Asian and Korean specialists, a conference of 26 scholars from ASEAN and 21 scholars from Korea, hosted by the Secretariat of AUN, was held on 17-19 February 2000 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.