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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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Leadership
Development Seminar
with
Linda
Akutagawa
Vice President for Resource and Business
Development
Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics,
Inc. (LEAP)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
6:30 PM-7:00 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
7:00 PM-8:30 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
Free program with RSVP (Walk-in
registration will incur a $20 charge)
For more information or to register for
the program, contact Jennifer Wonkyung Lee at (212) 633- 2000 or
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workshop, organized by KALCA, in collaboration with yKAN and YesYas, which are
young professional organizations in New York City, is a comprehensive primer on
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – who they are, their history in the
United States, the issues that these communities are facing, how they are
perceived (and misperceived) by others, and how their culture of origin
influences their behavior. Using a multifaceted approach that examines history,
demographics, diversity, community issues, stereotypes and culture, Linda
Akutagawa, from LEAP, will get to the heart of what it mean to be
"Asian American or Pacific Islander."
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 with
Allan R. Millett
Professor
of History
Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies
The University of New Orleans
Thursday, March
27, 2008
6:00 PM-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea
Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building
entrance on SW corner of Third
Avenue and 57th Street)
$10
for members, $15 for nonmembers
Buy tickets
For more information or to register for the
program, contact Patrick Clair at (212) 759-7525, ext. 328 or email
Allan R. Millett shares his latest
research as well as the personal journey that led him to write one of the most comprehensive
accounts of the origins of the Korean War. He traces the causes of the conflict
to the post-liberation antagonism between two revolutionary movements, the
Marxist-Leninists and the Nationalist-Capitalists. After the U.S.-Soviet
partition of Korea
following World War II, each movement, now with foreign patrons, claimed its
right to govern the peninsula. Thus, Millett argues, both internal forces and
international pressures converged to create the Korean War, a conflict that
still shapes the politics of Asia as a whole.
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 Book Café
with
Kim Sunée
Author, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
6:00 PM-6:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
$10 for members and students, $15 for nonmembers
(Walk-in registration will incur an additional charge of $5)
Buy tickets
For more information or to register for the program, contact Patrick
Clair at (212) 759-7525, ext. 328 or
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Kim Sunée was only three years old when her mother left her on a marketplace bench with a fistful of food and promised to be right back. When she was taken in by the police three days later and told she had been abandoned, all she had left in the world was a handful of crumbs. Through her adoption by a couple in New Orleans, her adolescence as only one of two Asian children in her community and her relationship with a famous French businessman, the pursuit of fine food has been a constant for Kim in her search for an identity that seems at once intimate and elusive.
Reading from her new memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home and taking questions, Kim Sunée will bring the audience along on her lyrical journey of sustenance and self, from Korea to America to Provence.
Supporting Organization 
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 with
Hazel Smith
Professor of International Relations, University of Warwick
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
3:30–4:00 PM • Registration and Reception
4:00–5:30 PM • Presentation and Q&A
$10 for members, $15 for non-members
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
During and after the famine of the mid-1990s, in the absence of state capacity, local administrative units and workplaces in the DPRK improvised, using their own resources, political, and historical relationships as well as a principle of self-reliance inherited from the long-gone socialist period. Smith will explain how physical, social and political capitals intersected with market opportunities, thus providing a framework for understanding the various survival opportunities and reconstruction paths that became available for different social groups. This explanatory framework functions to explain inequality for all social groups in the post-famine DPRK, whether defined by age, gender, occupation or regional provenance. In this presentation, she will focus on geographical location and use the province as the main unit of analysis.
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