Suh studied economic development at Harvard University under the economist and statistician Simon Kuznets, and received his doctorate degree in 1964.
[1] As Suh worked as a professor at Clark University, and at the World Bank, experiencing the international economy and gaining educational experience in economics.
Suh also actively participated in developing economic policies, so he served as a member of the Foreign Economic Committee in 1973, Tax System Audit Committee, and as a director representative of the South Korean branch of the World Bank.
Suh died in 1983 in the Rangoon bombing incident in Burma while performing his duties during an unofficial tour by South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to Southwest Asia and Oceania.
[1] Suh was posthumously awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by his alma mater Clark University in 1984.