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The U.S.-ROK Military Alliance: Key to Stability in Northeast Asia
Thu. Oct. 9 @ 3:30 PM
Join us for an exclusive afternoon forum with General Walter L. Sharp, commander of the United Nations Command,
Combined Forces Command and U.S.
Forces Korea, as he discusses his priorities for strengthening the
alliance, working towards its short-term and long-term objectives and
implementing major initiatives to prepare the alliance for the future.
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| Book Café |
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Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City
Tues. Oct. 14 @ 6:30 PM
Join us for a book café with sociologist Pyong Gap Min, as he discusses his new book, Ethnic
Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City, a sophisticated empirical analysis of Korean entrepeneurship and a riveting collection of stories
highlighting the perennial themes of immigration, race, work, and the
American dream.
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Classic Movie Night: Black Republic
Thu. Oct. 16 @ 6:30 PM
Park
Kwang-su's Black Republic offers a hard-boiled portrait of an idealist on the run from the police.
Han Tae-hoon ( Moon Sung-keun) finds precarious shelter from in a
small coal-mining town, a bleak place left behind by Korea's rapid-fire
industrialization. There, he gets a glimpse of a better life, as he
falls for a waitress ( Shim Hye-jin) at the local teahouse. How long will it be until
his past catches up with him?
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Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Wed. Oct. 22 @ 6:00 PM
Join us for a book café with Alexis Dudden, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States, Stuart J. Thorson, professor of political science and
international relations (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University) and Hyunjin Seo (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University), as they discuss Dudden's new essay.
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Tradition & Its Changes
Fri. Oct. 24 @ 8:00 PM
NYU Skirball Center
Come to the fall 2008 tour of Tradition & Its Changes: Traditional and Contemporary Korean Dance and Music, performed by In-Young Sohn's NOW Dance Company, for a sampling of Korea’s
dance heritage and its innovative contemporary choreography. The show
will feature eight music and dance numbers, ranging from the ancient,
spiritual whirling of Korean shamans in munyŏmu, to the stark, modern movements of the hŏjŏng.
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Project Bridge 2008-2009
Deadline Mon. Oct.
6
Apply now for Project
Bridge, a yearlong intercultural outreach program for New York and Los Angeles
based high school students that culminates in a fully subsidized 10-day study
tour to Korea.
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| Current Exhibition |
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North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge
Sept. 9 - Dec. 12, 2008
The Korea Society presents, for the first time ever in the United States, the
art of North Korean woodblock printing. The exhibition features 24 rare prints from the Nicholas
Bonner Collection.
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| Teachers' Conference |
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Teachers' Conference
Tue., Nov. 4 @ 9:00 AM
Technology and Innovation for World History
Free event for K-12 Teachers in the Greater New York Area. Register Early.
Lawrence A. Husick, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Seung-cheol Lee, Curator, Chongju Early Printing Museum
David Steel, Senior Vice President, Samsung Electronics North American Headquarters
Paul Dickler, Senior Fellow, Marvin Wachman Center for International Education
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| Past Performance |
 | Singing with 12 Strings
Wed. Sept. 24 @ 6:30 PM
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. The
performance will include excerpts from the p'ansori ("story-singing") repertoire with accompaniment on the kayagŭm ("12-stringed Korean zither").
SOLD OUT
Co-sponsored by
the Donghwa Cultural Foundation
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| NASDAQ |
 | The Korea Society @ NASDAQ
On August 22, Evans J.R. Revere, president of The Korea
Society, presided over the Closing Bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite
in Times Square in New York City. The ceremony celebrated the opening
of the eighth annual New York Korean Film Festival.
Read on to see more pictures from the event.
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| Special Event |
 | 18th Annual Van Fleet Memorial Golf Tournament
Mon. Sept. 15
Alpine Country Club,
Demarest, NJ
Please join The Korea Society’s 18th Annual Van Fleet Memorial Golf
Tournament. The tournament provides an
opportunity for our members and friends to get better acquainted in a
beautiful setting. It is also an opportunity for our generous sponsors
to show their support for our programs. The success of this tournament
over the years has helped us to build and transform The Korea Society
into a major player in the promotion of even closer relations between
Americans and Koreans.
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| Past Forum |
 | South Korean Business and the DMZ in an Era of Climate Change
Wed. Sept. 10 @ 12:00 PM
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Hall Healy, president of The DMZ Forum, Inc., argues that the pristine environment of the DMZ
could provide drinking water to millions of Koreans, trillions
of won in income and an untold number of jobs. Healy will discuss strategies that could help South Korean industries
re-tool for the future with landscape ecologist John Mickelson, William B. Shore, secretary of The DMZ Forum, and Christine Kim (Yale University).
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| New Beginnings |
 | New Beginnings
“New Beginnings,” a nonpartisan policy study group of former senior U.S. officials and other experts on Korea
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Get the Full Report from the April 15th press conference on recommendations for updating and strengthening the U.S.-South Korea alliance.
- Download the audio from the June 3rd panel discussion at the World Affairs Council of Northern California results of President Lee’s recent visit to the United States and of the
prospects for forging a real partnership with South Korea.
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| Past Forum |
 | A Korean Actor on the World Stage: Ahn Sung-ki
Wed. Aug 27 @ 6:30 PM
Ahn
Sung-ki, the “people’s actor” of Korea, will speak about his long and
rich acting career as well as his own life history that very nearly
coincides with the history of contemporary Korean cinema. As president of the
Korean Actors’ Guild, Ahn also will address the relationship between
actors and the national film industry, inter- Asian cinematic projects,
and the “globalization” of Korean cinema.
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Co-sponsored by yKAN
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| Screening & Panel |
 | Cinema Korea: The Past, Present and Future of Korean Films
Thu. August 28 @ 6:00 PM
Join The Korea Society for a screening
of the exciting new documentary, Cinema Korea, and a panel discussion on the
current state of Korean cinema. Oscar-nominated director Christine Choy will introduce
her film, and field questions from the audience with Jung-Bong Choi (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU) and
Jina Kim (Smith College).
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Co-sponsored by yKAN
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| Past Forum |
 | Fashion: The Next Korean Wave?
Wed. August 20 @ 6:30 PM
Join The Korea Society for a discussion moderated by luxury marketing consultant Susan Shin of Shin Advisors, with fashion designers Gemma Kahng and Jean Yu, and menswear designer Hyden Yoo, as they address their creative processes,
their influences and the unique cultural and commercial challenges they
face in marketing their fashion in the U.S., Korea and a globalized
society.
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| Past Policy Forum |
 | The DPRK Today
Fri. July 11 @ 12:00 PM
John Everard, Great Britain’s ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since February 2006, will discuss the current situation in North Korea, changes in its society and the problems that the country faces.
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| Past Book Café |
 | Korean Homecomings: The Poetry of Origin
Wed. July 2 @ 6:30 PM
Join poets Lee Herrick, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, and author
Kim Sunée for a fascinating conversation about
Korean adoptee literature and the
link between writing and the quest for identity/origin.
Herrick and Sunée recently returned from
South
Korea, where they were conducting a
birth-family search. They will share stories from their journey and read from
their works with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs.
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