John Park, Stanton Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT and an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, analyzes the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the uptick in provocations and threats from North Korea and security implications for the region with The Korea… MORE

John S. Park, an associate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and MIT faculty fellow, speaks to progress and new developments in the relations between the DPRK and PRC. Dr. Park speaks to upticks in party relations, Kim Jong Un’s leadership and ties to China’s new… MORE

  TRANSCRIPT   The Korea Society welcomes Yonsei University President Jeong Kap-young for a luncheon discussion on Building a Creative Korean Economy: The Role of Higher Education on March 13th at noon. A specialist in industrial organization, public policy and economics, President Jeong propelled Yonsei to the top of the Joongang rankings… MORE

Experts reflect on President Park Geun-hye inauguration, promises of greater “economic democracy” at home and a new trustpolitik with the North, and relations with the U.S. Stanford University’s David Straub, The Council on Foreign Relations’ Scott Snyder, and Yonsei University’s John Delury address these issues, with an eye toward evolving… MORE

On Monday, February 25, 2013, Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, Chairman of The Korea Society, and Ambassador Mark Minton, President of The Korea Society, attended the Inauguration of South Korean President Park Guen-hye, the country's 18th-term president. Ambassador Minton reflects on President Park's Inaugural speech and a presidential banquet ceremony held at the Blue House.  … MORE

On February 12, 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in a show of defiance to the international community and the nuclear non-proliferation regime. President of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), David Albright; Executive Director of the Ploughshares Fund, Phillip Yun; and the Senior Director of… MORE