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Contemporary Issues
The contemporary issues project promotes cross-cultural understanding through public lectures, panel discussions, symposia and workshops that present the rich diversity of Korea and U.S.-Korea relations in historical and contemporary contexts. These programs feature authors, scholars, artists, practitioners from the nonprofit sector, politicians, business leaders and others who are willing to share with the American public their unique expertise on Korea and U.S.-Korea relations.
The focus of this project area is an in-depth exploration of the social, cultural, economic, political, historical and security dimensions of the U.S.-Korea relationship. The objective is to foster a greater awareness, appreciation and understanding of the complexity of these underlying factors, which fuels the power of imagination that is the indispensable wellspring of the capacity for empathy. While divergences of perspectives between Americans and Koreans on many fundamental issues may be inevitable, it is equally inevitable that these divergences must be brought within the realm of imagination to be channeled toward productive engagement based on mutual respect.
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 Book Café
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Ed Park
Author of Personal Days
Janice Y.K. Lee
Author of The Piano Teacher
Sung J. Woo
Author of Everything Asian
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
6:00 PM-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Discussion and Q&A
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of
Third Avenue and 57th Street)
A growing number of Korean American authors have found both critical and commercial success in the past decade. Does this "literary wave" mean that Americans of Korean origin have successfully moved from the margins to the mainstream of American literature, writing simply as "writers" and not as "ethnic writers?" Join us for a literary conversation with novelists Ed Park, Janice Y.K. Lee, and Sung J. Woo, as they discuss issues of acculturation, isolation, cultural alienation, race and class, in relation to their own works.
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 From the Russian Perspective
with
Alexander Vorontsov
Head of the Department for Korean and Mongolian Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Thursday, July 2, 2009
3:00 PM-3:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
3:30 PM-5:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
At a discussion held at the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 25, 2009, one participant told Alexander Vorontsov:“Many people around the world contend that we, North Koreans, launcheda satellite on April 4 and withdrew from the Six-Party Talks later onin order to draw more attention to ourselves from the internationalcommunity in general, and Washington in particular. They argue that wewanted to raise the stakes, gain more material benefits and so on. Inreality, all such guesses are only ungrounded allegations." In the light of this assertion and closed door conversations, Alexander Vorontsov will discuss the implications of the second North Korean nuclear test from the Russian perspective. $20 for members and students, $30 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5.)
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Updates on Korean Peninsula Security Issues
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General Walter L. Sharp
Commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
** Please note the program time has changed **
2:00 PM-2:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
2:30 PM-4:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
$20 for members and students, $30 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5.)
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For more information or to register for the program, contact Patrick Clair at 212-759-7525, ext. 328, or
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Join us for an exclusive afternoon forum with General Walter L. Sharp, commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea, as he discusses the current state of the U.S.-ROK Alliance and provides the latest updates on Korean Peninsula Security Issues.
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 Statement by
Evans J.R. Revere
President, The Korea Society U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations
June 11, 2009 Mr. Chairman, I am honored to appear before this committee. I commend you and the members of this distinguished committee for holding this timely hearing on one of the most complex foreign policy and security challenges that the United States and the international community face today. I appear before you as someone who has spent most of the past 40 years working on U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific region, with a special focus on the two Koreas, China, and Japan. I’ve worked in and on the region as a soldier, a scholar, a diplomat, and now as the head of a private, non-profit organization. Today, the views I express here are solely my own. |
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