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The Culture, Policy and Society programming 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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 Luncheon Forum
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Hall Healy
President, DMZ Forum
William B. Shore
Secretary, DMZ Forum
John Mickelson
Landscape Ecologist
Christine Kim
Program and Research Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
South Korea mastered the game of development economics, rising to become the world’s eleventh largest economy by producing cars, ships and electronics. Now, with climate change a major global issue, the game has changed. From desertification in Mongolia to increased flooding in North Korea, to car emissions, development and air pollution within its borders, South Korea is already wrestling with the effects of global warming on its economy. Can it successfully integrate with the new environmental paradigm?
Hall Healy, president of The DMZ Forum, Inc., believes South Korea can thrive in this new era of green economics, and that the DMZ, untouched by 50 years of development, may be one of its biggest assets. If developed responsibly, the pristine environment of the DMZ could provide clean drinking water to millions of Koreans, trillions of won in income and an untold number of jobs in eco-tourism, sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services. Healy will also discuss other strategies that could help South Korean industries re-tool for the future with landscape ecologist John Mickelson and William B. Shore, secretary of The DMZ Forum. Christine Kim, Yale's program director for the Environmental Performance Index will discuss North and South Korea's rankings.
This forum is jointly presented by The Korea Society and the DMZ Forum (www.dmzforum.org)
About the Speakers
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.jpg "oh_0033(7527).jpg") Performance with Commentary
by
Oh Jung-Hee
Artist-in-Residence
Donghwa Cultural Foundation
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Join us for an exciting evening as the celebrated artist Oh Jung-Hee demonstrates the contemporary vitality of ancient traditions of Korean music, especially the tradition of dramatic narrative singing. Oh will perform excerpts from the p'ansori repertoire—Song of Ch'unhyang and Song of Hŭngbo, two of the five extant narratives (madang) of this distinctly Korean art form. Combining narration and drama for a solo vocalist, p'ansori is a unique musical genre that was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2003.
Oh will also play the 12-string Korean zither (kayagŭm), one of the best known traditional Korean musical instruments that shares some traits with the Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, Mongolian yatga, and Vietnamese dan tranh. Her performance will demonstrate the use of this instrument both as accompaniment for vocal pieces (kayagŭm pyŏngch'ang) and in solo instrumental pieces (kayagŭm sanjo). Throughout the program, Oh will offer brief explanatory comments on the works being performed to highlight their distinctive features as well as the contributions they have made to the development of Korea's musical and narrative traditions.
Co-sponsored by the Donghwa Cultural Foundation
49 Honeck Street, Englewood, NJ 07631
About the Presenter
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|  Workshop
with
The Venerable Pomnyun
Chairman, Good Friends and Peace Foundation
Baek Seung-Joo
Research Follow, Peace Foundation
Leon Sigal
Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, the Social Science Research Council
Monday, September 22, 2008
Please join us for a special afternoon workshop with a panel of distinguished speakers from Korea and the US as they discuss a wide cross-section of the most current and pressing concerns relating to North Korea. Topics will include the worsening food crisis, the ROK's shift away from the engagement efforts of the last decade and lessons learned from past failures that have led to the continued impasse. The Ven. Pomnyun leads a delegation of experts from the Peace Foundation—including Baek Seung-joo—and will be joined by Leon Sigal of the Social Science Research Council.
About the Speakers
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 A Luncheon Discussion Forum
with
Mike Chinoy
Edgerton Fellow on Korean Security
Pacific Council on International Policy
Author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Moderated by
Barbara Slavin
Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Times
Author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Friday, September 19, 2008
Starting in 2001, North Korea's nuclear weapons program went from being frozen to being fully operational, culminating in the test of a nuclear weapon in October 2006 that shocked the world. U.S. policy towards North Korea during this period was marked by intense debate in Washington, as advocates of diplomacy struggled with proponents of a more confrontational approach to dealing with Pyongyang. Today, a reversal by the Bush Administration of its earlier policy has led to an agreement that has put North Korea’s nuclear program into a state of partial disablement. However, the Six-Party Talks are stalled, and some believe the talks may yet unravel. How did all of this happen? Who were the key actors in this nuclear drama and what roles did they play resolving—or contributing to—this crisis?
In a conversation with The Washington Times assistant managing editor Barbara Slavin, longtime CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy, author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis (St Martin's Press, 2008), will share the perspective he has gained from more than two hundred interviews with key players in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing—including Colin Powell, John Bolton and Kim Dae-jung—as well as fourteen trips to Pyongyang. Chinoy will discuss how U.S. refusal to engage in serious diplomacy spurred Kim Jong Il to stage his nuclear breakout, and describe the subsequent reversal of course that led the Bush administration to abandon confrontation in the hope of negotiating an end to the nuclear crisis.
About the Speakers
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