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  • Enough to Say It's Far: Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam
  • A Year in North Korea: Impressions of the DPRK
  • Shaping the Future of North Korea: Signs of Impending Change?
  • Threatened by Peace: Biodiversity and Conservation in the DMZ
  • Covering Korea in a Time of Crisis
  • A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter's Mission to Pyongyang
  • Hope and Struggle: North Korean Defectors Living in South Korea
  • The Quest for Peace and Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
  • Envisioning an Alternative U.S. Policy on North Korea
  • Hallyu: Korean Pop Culture Sweeps Across Asia
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  • From Hermit Kingdom to Global Hub: Seoul Reinvents its Cultural Identity
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  • Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in NK
  • Emotion is Not the Problem: The U.S.-ROK Relationship in Perspective
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  • Modern Korean Fiction: The Genesis of an Anthology
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  • Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians
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  • What Does Pyongyang Want?
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    • Storytelling as a Teaching Tool
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    • Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West Through Christianity
    • TradINNOVAtion: New Trends in Contemporary Korean Architecture
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    • Making Pojagi: A Workshop
    • Unwrapping the Secrets of Korean Textiles: An Exhibition of 'Pojagi'
    • Encountering North Korea Through its Art
    • North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge
    • Fashion: The Next Korean Wave?
    • The Kyopo Project
    • Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic
    • Cross-Cultural Traffic: Toying with Brands, Borders and Bootlegs
    • Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood
    • Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
    • Happy Souls and Anxious Mourners:
    • Journey to the Grave, Dance to Paradise: Shamanic Rituals for the Dead
    • Film Screening of A Petal and Q&A with Actress Young-Lan Lee
    • The Modern Boy and Modern Girl in Colonial Korea: 1910–45
    • How Did Korea Become a "Land of Apartments"?
    • Dressed to Kill: Women’s Fashion and Body Politics in North Korea
    • The Forgotten Legacy of the Minjung Art Movement in South Korea
    • Born Korean, Becoming South Korean
    • Dreams That Money Can Buy: Families and Finance in the Melodrama
    • Korean Dance: Tradition and Creation
    • Contemporary Korean Choreographers
    • Empress Chung: New York Premiere Screening
    • Korean Comics: A Society Through Small Frames
    • Kim Ku's Fight for Korean Independence and Unification
    • The Life of Kim Ku in Photographs
    • Imagining and Documenting Asian American Women's Arts and Lives
    • Storytelling and Korean Folktales
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  • Performing Arts
    • Where Sounds Blossom: In the Land of Kayagum
    • The Song of Hungbo:
    • Between Depth and Resonance: Melodies of the Kayagum
    • Korean Dance: Tradition & Creation
    • Singing with 12 Strings
    • The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment: 2007 U.S. Tour
    • Reinventing Traditional Korean Music
    • Tradition & Its Changes
    • The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment
    • Portrait of Hwang Byungki: Korean Traditional Music
    • Korean Dance: Tradition & Creation 2006
  • Film
    • Films from the North: Part II
    • Korean Women Filmmakers: A Screening and Discussion with Yim Soon-rye
    • Korean Films Made During the Japanese Occupation
    • Cabaret Cinema: Kim Ki-duk's 'The Bow'
    • Power and Beauty - KBS's 'Hwang Jin Yi'
    • Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People
    • New York Korean Film Festival 2008
    • Crossing the Line
    • A Korean Actor on the World Stage: Ahn Sung-ki
    • August 21: New York Korean Film Festival Opening Reception
    • Cinema Korea: The Past, Present and Future of Korean Films
    • Films from the North
    • Lee Chang-Dong and Moon So-ri present "Oasis"
    • Film Panel - Finishing the Game
    • Is the Korean Wave Dead?
    • Producing a Film across Seoul and New York - Making West 32nd
    • Hong Sang-Soo Tribute
    • Bong Joon-Ho Mini Film Festival
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    • Truth and Dare: New York Korean Film Festival 2005
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    • 2007: Houghton and Doreen Freeman
    • 2006: Lee Kun-Hee
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    • 2000: Jimmy Carter
    • 1999: William J. Perry
    • 1998: Jeong H. Kim
    • 1998: Jong-Hyon Chey
    • 1997: Pyong-Hwoi Koo
    • 1996: James T. Laney
    • 1995: Chulsu Kim
    • General James Alward Van Fleet
  • Golf Tournament
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• Of Interest...
  • American Hwangap
  • Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Korean Films @ The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
  • The Storyteller in the Digital Age: An Afternoon With Hwang Sok-yong
  • Korea 21: Music Here & Now
  • 'Hyphen' and Mixed Repertoire
  • Korean Art Society
  • WAVE RISING SERIES
  • PBS Documentary seeks still photos, archival video of Seoul, Cheonggyecheon
  • Asian American International Film Festival ‘08
  • Oh ChiGyun: Defining Landscape
  • LTI Korea Translation Academy Intensive Course
  • "Haegum Plus: Remembering the Future" East Coast Tour
  • Donghwa Cultural Foundation
  • Asian and Indian films at Tribeca Film Festival, April 23 - May 4
  • Cyberethics: The Emerging Codes of Online Conduct
  • Kim Ki-young Retrospective
  • 2008 Pi Delta Psi Korean Film Festival, March 7-8
  • New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang
  • Also-Known-As Social Event
  • Hong Sang Soo's "Woman on the Beach"
  • Investors' Luncheon Forum
  • Korean Waves: Korean Popular Culture in East Asia and the World
  • Seminar: US-Korea FTA - Implications & Opportunities
  • Conversations over Korean Tea

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