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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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 Korean Leaders' Forum
with
Kim Jin-Sun
Governor of Gangwon Province
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ♦ Luncheon and Presentation
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
The event is free but RSVP is required. RSVP online here or contact Patrick Clair at (212) 759-7525, ext. 328 or email.
After World War II, Gangwon-do—one of the original eight Chosun provinces—was split between North Korea and South Korea. Today, Gangwon residents and local government embrace their unique status as a divided province by spearheading inter-Korean reconciliation projects. Under the leadership of Governor Kim Jin-Sun, Gangwon residents—from both North and South—have worked together to preserve the DMZ, prospect for energy in the East Sea and develop a cooperative logistics infrastructure.
Join Governor Kim as he discusses the importance of economic and political reconciliation at the local level, and prospects for national integration projects.
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 Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
6:00 PM-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
$10 for members (The Korea Society, Japan Society or Carnegie Council). $15 for non-members.
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Clair at (212) 759-7525, ext. 328 or
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With some of the highest rates of broadband and wireless Internet penetration in the world, Korea and Japan are home to thriving online communities that affect politics, shape public opinion, and forge new forms of social bonding. In Korea, the net has empowered citizen journalism and created a new national pastime of “massively multiplayer online games.” According to the Washington Post, more blogs are written in Japanese than in English, despite the fact that English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by five to one. Both countries are bastions of participatory Internet use, but what accounts for subtle differences in user attitudes and behavior? In addition to exploring the challenges and lessons learned by people blogging about Korean and Japanese society and politics, the panel discusses how the peculiarities of Japanese and Korean political and online cultures affect participatory democracy in those countries, and whether these experiences will be a bellwether for the global community.
This program takes place in conjunction with the ongoing, two-year, Ethical Blogger project conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Demos, NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, and Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Introductory remarks by Devin T. Stewart, Director, Editor, Global Policy Innovations program, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Speakers:
David Weinberger, Author, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Wendy H.K. Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Tobias Harris, Publisher, ObservingJapan.com; freelance blogger and journalist
Stuart Thorson, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Samuel Jamier, Senior Program Officer, Contemporary Issues & Corporate Affairs, The Korea Society
Moderated by Daniel B. Levine, The Korea Society
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GROUP OF EXPERTS AND FORMER OFFICIALS TO RELEASE
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRENGTHENING U.S.–KOREA TIES
 Tuesday, April 15, 2008
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM ♦ Registration
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ♦ Discussion
This program is free, but RSVP is required before the end of the business day on Monday, April 14.
For more information or to register for the program, contact Samuel Jamier, Senior Program Officer for CI/CA:
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Tel: 212-759-7525 ext. 358, or fax: 212-759-7530
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor
New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
Members of New Beginnings, a nonpartisan policy study group made up of former senior U.S. officials, academics and other experts on Korea, will release their recommendations for updating and strengthening the U.S.–South Korea alliance at a press conference at The Korea Society (950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor) in New York on April 15 at 10 AM.
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A Panel Discussion
with
Zarin Mehta
President
and Executive Director, New York
Philharmonic
Daniel J. Wakin
Culture Reporter,
The New York Times
Chuck R. Lustig
Director of
Foreign News, ABC News
moderated by
Evans J.R. Revere
President,
The Korea
Society
Tuesday, April
1, 2008
6:00–6:30 PM • Registration and Reception
6:30–8:00 PM • Panel Discussion and Q&A
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance
on SW corner of 57th Street and Third Avenue)
$10 for members and students, $15 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5)
For more information or to register for the program, contact Patrick
Clair at (212) 759-7525, ext. 328 or
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On February 26, the New York Philharmonic performed a concert in Pyongyang, marking the first time a major American cultural event had been staged in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) since the Korean War. In an historic first, the concert was broadcast live by both television and radio in North Korea as well as internationally. Its local and global resonance was unprecedented as these broadcasts reportedly reached an audience of 200 million worldwide.
Philharmonic president and executive director Zarin Mehta, New York Times classical music reporter Daniel J. Wakin and ABC News Foreign News Director Chuck R. Lustig traveled to Pyongyang with the orchestra. On Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30 PM the three will discuss their trip—including how it came about and how it impacted the North Korean audience—during a panel discussion at The Korea Society. The discussion will be moderated by Evans J.R. Revere, president of The Korea Society, who also attended the concert.
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