North Koreans escaping regime repression employ escape channels similar to those used by Harriet Tubman to help American slaves, says author Melanie Kirkpatrick. Explore the network of ethnic Koreans, brokers and missionaries who seek to aid those fleeing the North with Kirkpatrick and human rights advocate and U.S. businessman Steven… MORE

What are the prospects for United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon’s second term? How will Korea exercise its two-year term on the UN Security Council? And what of the new Green Climate Fund, founded within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be based in Korea’s Songdo/Incheon? Michele Griffin… MORE

Please join us for a special season preview taping session with Robert C. Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Secretary Orr will address Korea and UN Leadership and hopes for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's second term.… MORE

This special conversation between Ambassadors Hill and Mark Minton, President of The Korea Society, weighs next steps for U.S. policy toward Korea given developments South and North; key issues for and possible areas of cooperation with President Park Geun-hye; growing the strong state of the Korea-U.S. "special relationship" further; Washington's… MORE

The Korea Society’s Dr. Stephen Noerper interviews Scott Thomas Bruce of CRDF Global on the Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s recent trip to North Korea. Mr. Bruce discusses the significance of Eric Schmidt’s visit, the implications of North Korea’s possible opening to information technology, opportunities for NGOs to engage with… MORE

Marking the record-high 75.6 percent voter turnout in the Korean Presidential elections and victory of Park Geun-hye, The Korea Society Chairman and McLarty Associates Senior Director for Asia, Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, Columbia University Professor Charles Armstrong and Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Scott Snyder discuss and debate the significance… MORE