SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and Samsung Medical Center (SMC) co-hosted a special lecture by Alvin Roth who is Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner of 2012. The title of the lecture was "Kidney Exchange: An Economist's Perspective" and the venue was SMC's Cancel Hospital Lecture Hall. The host of the lecture was Dr. and Prof. Dae Joong Kim. Prof. Kim conducted a similar kind of research of kidney donor-recipient matching program and had research exchanges with Prof. Roth.

In his lecture, Prof. Roth emphasized that the kidney exchange market should be thick, uncongested and safe. It is important to have rich pool of patients with compatible donors to make possible transplantations. To do that, many medical centers are in collaboration their researches and international kidney exchange market forming would benefit more patients in the future. What Prof. Roth designed is a long chain of kidney exchange and donation and as the chain gets longer, more families benefit from the network. Prof. Roth's perspective is from, as the title indicated, an economist's point of view and he cannot answer all the questions arise in kidney exchange market nothing and its implications. Still there is repugnant per-spective of kidney exchange transplantation; however, that social coercion can be changed over time.

After the lecture, Jun Young Kim, the president of SKKU, and Prof. Roth had a conversation. The conversation focused on economics algorithm in education, business and society which applies to "matching theory" that explains balancing demand and supply trade-off in real market.