Daryl M. Plunk

Daryl M. Plunk is a Senior Fellow with the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation, a public policy research institute in Washington, D.C., with which he has been associated since 1984 and where he has published numerous studies on Asian affairs. He has a particular focus on Korean affairs. He is also President of CCI, LLC, an international business and public affairs consulting firm.

Mr. Plunk has written extensively for U.S. and foreign publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review and the International Herald Tribune, as well as Asian and American scholarly journals. He also contributes regularly to foreign language newspapers and magazines.

He has been the featured guest on many radio and television programs. He is the author of chapters in the books entitle Democracy and Development in East Asia (The AEI Press, 1991), The U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Time for a Change (Transaction Publishers, 1992) and Rethinking the Korean Peninsula: Arms Control, Nuclear Issues and Economic Reformation (Georgetown University, 1993).

He has testified before congressional committees of both the U.S. House and Senate on a variety of issues concerning Asian affairs. Mr. Plunk studied political science at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Kyungsang Province, Korea.