Is Islamic Finance an Alternative to Conventional Finance? The Principles and Practice of Islamic Finance in Southeast Asia


  • Date: December 18th, Friday, 2020 13:00 – 18:00
  • Online via Zoom

Session 1 – Moderator: Kyunghee Choi (SNUAC HK Research Professor)

Shari’a Arbitrage in Islamic Insurance: Focusing on Islamic concepts of transfer of assets (hibah) and sharing (taawun)
Presentation: Myungseok Oh (Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, SNU)
Discussion: Seung Hun Seog (Prof., Dept. of Business Administration, SNU)

Islamic Bonds, Sukuk: Theory and reality
Presentation: Choonglyol Lee (Prof., Dept. of Economics and Statistics, Korea Univ.)
Discussion: Sangjin Kim (General Manager, North Gyeonggi Branch, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation)

Analysis of Transition Effect of Variability Between Tradition and Islam Bond Market
Presentation: Sun-Ho Lee (Prof., Dept. of Economics, Hannam Univ.)
Discussion: Hee-Ryang Ra (Prof., Division of International Commerce, Pukyong Nat’l Univ.)

 

Session 2 – Moderator: Myungseok Oh (Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, SNU)

The Ideals and Reality of Islamic Housing Finance: Cases of Malaysia and Indonesia
Presentation: Jihyouk Lee (Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, SNU)
Discussion: Dongchul Yang (Manager, Credit Risk Team, Risk Management Division, The Export-Import Bank of Korea)

What Makes Islamic Finance Islamic?: Case of an Indonesian Shari’a Microfinance institution
Presentation: Hyung Jun Kim (Prof., Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Kangwon Nat’l Univ.)
Discussion: Kyungmook Lee (Prof., Shinhan University)

The Transition from Zakat to Zakatnomics in Indonesia: Legal institution, awareness, and action
Presentation: Kyunghee Choi (SNUAC HK Research Professor)
Discussion: Woonkyung Yeo (Prof., Dept. of Asian Languages and Civilizations, SNU)

A Comparative Analysis of Legislations and Governances of Islamic Finances in Malaysia and Indonesia
Presentation: Byung-ho Kim (Senior Researcher, Samsung Economic Research Institute)

 

※ Presentations and discussions will be held both offline and online (Zoom).

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