April 5-7, 2005 

The Korea Society was one of the sponsors of a two day conference, hosted by Harvard's Korea Institute, which was aimed at helping to bring Koguryo-based studies to the English-speaking world. Despite in-depth research done through Asian universities, only a handful of articles on the early Korean kingdom have appeared in Western literature, leaving students and teachers of East Asian history with a substantial academic blind spot. The conference addressed this shortcoming by bringing together experts from South Korea, Japan, China, Australia, France and the U.S. who shared their expertise in more than a dozen lectures and panel discussions. Topics ranged from early Koguryo history to the archaeology of Koguryo capitals to the preservation of Koguryo mural tombs in North Korea. The conference was organized by Mark Byington, post-doctoral fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University.