I was informed about ARENA’s collaboration with the Inter-Asia Graduate School of NGO Studies at SungKongHoe University, Seoul, to launch MA course in Inter-Asia NGO Studies (MAINS). The information was disseminated to all ARENA Fellows through a general circular to identify who would be interested to take the responsibility as faculty. I ignored the mail as I assumed that I might not be the right person and, in my opinion, there are many Fellows in ARENA who are much more capable of steering the process. On 21 December 2006, Francis wrote to me to know “Whether you are interested in the Co-Directorship of the MA course in Inter-Asia Studies that ARENA and SKHU are offering from next March. So far, no fellow has expressed interest except Ed Tadem (for the second half of the year 2007).” I wanted to ignore this mail too. After a couple of days, I replied that staying in Seoul for such a long period might be a problem and I would think about it.