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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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Thursday, December 6, 2007
8:00 AM-8:30 AM ♦ Breakfast and Registration
8:30 AM-2:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City
2007 was a year of tremendous activity on the Korean Peninsula. In early February, the Six-Party Talks resulted in an agreement to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula. A major deadline in the agreement is looming, since North Korea has committed to disable its nuclear program and declare all of its nuclear weapons-related facilities and materials later this month. The United States and South Korea signed a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) in June. In October, the leaders of the two Koreas met for the first time at the second Inter-Korean Summit. In addition, South Korea will soon hold a presidential election, which has the potential to change the political landscape at home and abroad. Please join us for a discussion of these and other pressing issues.
Keynote Speakers:
His Excellency Lee Tae-sik, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
Alex Arvizu, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State
Session I: After the North-South Summit: Toward Reconciliation?
Charles Armstrong, Professor of History, Columbia University
Victor Cha, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
John Park, Director, Korea Working Group, USIP
L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation (moderator)
Session II: Korea at a Crossroads: Domestic Leadership and Regional Stability
Haeran Lim, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Scott Snyder, Senior Associate, International Relations, The Asia Foundation
J.J. Suh, Associate Professor and Director of the Korea Studies Program, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Charles Pritchard, President, Korea Economic Institute (moderator)
$50 for Korea Society Members, Asia Society Members and Students; $75 Nonmembers.
For tickets, call the Asia Society box office at (212) 517-ASIA or visit https://tickets.asiasociety.org.
No cancellations, exchanges or refunds.
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  Book Café
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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)
In 1993, Cullen Thomas was a young man who wanted to see the world and South Korea was one of his first stops. Convicted of smuggling hashish and sentenced to 3 ½ years in Korean prison, the world he ended up seeing—one in which the Confucian customs of Korean society take on a harsh character—wasn’t the one he expected.
Reading from his new memoir Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea’s Prisons (published by Viking in March 2007) and taking questions, Thomas will share the gritty reality of an American’s life in a foreign prison: its unforgettable pains and its unexpected and beautiful lessons.
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 Perspectives from the Former Prime Minister of South Korea
Han Myeong-sook
Former Prime Minister, Republic of Korea
Thursday, November 8, 2007
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, Eighth Floor, New York City
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)
As the first woman to serve as the Republic of Korea’s prime minister, Han Myeong-sook has a singular perspective on Korean politics and society. Both are now in flux, as South Koreans prepare to head to the polls to elect a new president, North-South ties continue to break new ground and significant progress is being made at the Six-Party Talks. At this program, Han will share her views on all these subjects, as well as on U.S.–Korea ties and South Korea’s evolving social norms.
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Chung-in Moon
Ambassador for International Security Affairs, Republic of
Korea
Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:00 PM-3:30 PM ♦ Registration and Reception
3:30 PM-5:00 PM ♦ Presentation and Q&A
The first inter-Korean summit, in June 2000, was a watershed moment in modern Korean history. Now Kim Jong-il and Roh Moo-hyun are set to meet on October 2 in Pyongyang for a second North-South summit and their first encounter with one another. With the daunting work of reconciliation on the agenda, the nuclear crisis still looming, and with the eyes of the international community focused on the Korean Peninsula, the stakes are high for both North and South Korea – and for the United States.
As one of the few South Koreans to attend both the first and second inter-Korean summits, Chung-in Moon’s analysis will be particularly relevant. On October 25, Moon will share his perspective on what the second inter-Korean summit means for both Koreas, Northeast Asia, and the United States.
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