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Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

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Join us for the launch of the Korean translation of Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government, a memoir written by the late Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. This program features William R. Rhodes, CEO of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors and author of “Banker to the World,” which includes a foreword written by Volcker, and insights from Christine Harper, a member of Bloomberg’s editorial board, on Volcker’s extraordinary life and legacy. From his early days working in the Treasury Department, to his time in the Federal Reserve navigating the high inflation of the 1970s and 80s, Volcker’s thoughtful reflections on the importance of good government, stable finance, and stable prices continue to resonate in this new translation.

This program is produced in partnership with Columbia University’s APEC Study Center.

 

 

 

Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

VIDEO RELEASE: Thursday, October 5, 2023


 The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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Christine Harper is a member of Bloomberg’s editorial board, and the co-author of Paul Volcker’s 2018 memoir, Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government. Over more than 25 years at Bloomberg News, including eight in London, Christine covered technology, media, and telecom companies, corporate debt, and investment banking. She joined the editorial board in June 2023 after five years as editor of Bloomberg Markets magazine and five years helping to oversee the newsroom’s global coverage of financial institutions. Before joining Bloomberg, Christine worked at Dow Jones in New York and Brussels and at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi.
 
 

William R. Rhodes is an American banker and philanthropist. He was awarded the Korean Diplomatic Medal by the Korean government for having helped restructure the Korean debt and for helping to lead the negotiations on the KORUS FTA. Rhodes is president and CEO of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors, LLC which he founded in 2010. Having stepped back from full-time responsibilities with Citi after more than 53 years with the institution. He most recently served as senior advisor, senior vice chairman and senior international officer of Citigroup and chairman, president & CEO of Citibank, N.A. He held various senior executive positions at Citi from 1957 until his retirement from Citigroup on April 30, 2010. Subsequent to his retirement, he continued to serve as a senior advisor to Citi from 2010 through 2017.

From DMZ Colony to Phantom Pain Wings: An Evening with Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi

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This evening is devoted to the incendiary magic that arises when one brilliant poet translates another. For over a decade, poet Don Mee Choi (National Book Award winner, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow)

(l) Kim Hyesoon © Jung Melmel; (r) Don Mee Choi © Dirk Skiba

This evening is devoted to the incendiary magic that arises when one brilliant poet translates another. For over a decade, poet Don Mee Choi (National Book Award winner, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow) has been translating the fiercely iconoclastic and radically feminist poetry of Kim Hyesoon (Daesan Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize), one of the foremost poets of South Korea. The two will read from their works and speak about their writing and collaboration with Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director Susan Bernofsky.

 

 

From DMZ Colony to Phantom Pain Wings: An Evening with Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7:30 PM

 

@ Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Lantern
Columbia University School of the Arts
615 W. 129th Street, New York NY 10027

 

 

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Kim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. Her poems first appeared in Literature and Intellect (Munhak kwa jiseong), one of the two leading journals that led the intellectual and literary movement against the U.S. backed military dictatorships. Kim came into prominence from the late 1990s and was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong and Midang awards. Kim recently received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), the 2021 Cikada Prize, and the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2022. Kim’s profile appeared in The New Yorker in which she was quoted saying: “Feminism isn’t something you’re born believing. Feminism is going through life and changing yourself.” Kim’s poems in translation have appeared in various publications such as the Poetry Foundation, The New York Times, The Nation, The European Review, Guernica, and Boston Review. Her poetry has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, and Swedish. Kim is a professor emeritus of Seoul Institute of the Arts. She lives in Seoul with her husband Lee Kang-Baek, a renowned playwright, and her artist daughter Lee Fi Jae. Kim’s fourteenth book of poetry After Earth Dies, Who Will Moon Orbit? was published last year.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), which received the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her work also includes Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010) and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She is a recipient of fellowships from MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations. She was a fellow of the 2019 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and 2021 Guest Picador Professor-Leipzig University. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry: Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008), All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011), I’m OK, I’m Pig! (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) and others, including the 2019 International Poetry Prize winning book Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018) and most recently, Phantom Pain Wings (New Directions, 2023). After working in Seattle for a couple of decades, Choi now lives in Berlin with her husband Jay Weaver, a musician and schoolteacher. Her forthcoming book is Mirror Nation (Wave Books, April 2024).

 

The U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance at 70: Legacy and Future

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Signed on Oct. 1, 1953, in the wake of the armistice, the U.S.-South Korea alliance has matured into a dynamic partnership, deterring conflict and fostering cooperation with respect to trade, technology and people-to-people ties. This expert panel reflected on the legacy and future of the alliance.

This program was jointly hosted by The Korea Society, the Korea Defense Veterans Association and the Korea-Pacific Program at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.

 

The U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance at 70: Legacy and Future

October 4, 2023 | 5 PM


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350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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Thomas J. Byrne is President and CEO of The Korea Society and has taken on the role of “Honorary Ambassador,” appointed by the minister of MOTIE under the auspices of KOTRA/Invest Korea, to help promote trade and investment ties between Korea and the U.S. Byrne previously served at Moody’s Investor Services, where he was Senior Vice President, Regional Manager, spokesperson, and Director of Analysis for the Sovereign Risk Group in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, based in Singapore. Prior to that, he was the Senior Economist of the Asia Department at the Institute of International Finance in Washington D.C. from 1984 to 1996. Byrne has an MA in International Relations with a concentration in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced international Studies and a BS in Biology from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before his graduate work, he served in South Korea for three years as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer. Byrne teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City and at Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. As president, he has written opinion articles published in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The National Interest, and Reuters Breakingviews.
 
 

Stephen Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor and director of the Korea-Pacific Program at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. He teaches courses on the international relations of the Asia-Pacific at GPS covering political economy as well as security issues. He has done extensive research on North Korea in particular. In addition, he has a long-standing interest in transitions to and from democratic rule and the current phenomenon of democratic backsliding. His recent research on South Korea addresses the issue of political polarization, including with respect to foreign policy.
 
 

Allison Hooker is a foreign policy and national security specialist with 20 years of experience in the U.S. Government working on Asia. She served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia, where she led the coordination and implementation of U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific region. Prior to that, Hooker served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Korean Peninsula, where she staffed the U.S.-DPRK Summits in Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ. Prior to her service at the White House, Hooker was a senior analyst for North Korea in the Department of State and staffed the Six-Party Talks on North Korea’s nuclear program. She received a Masters’ of Arts Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and has been a research fellow at Osaka University and Keio University, where she focused on Japan-Korea relations, and Japan-China relations, respectively.
 
 

Youngwan Kim is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Korea in 1993. He worked at various Ministries of the Korean Government, including Foreign Ministry, Unification Ministry, and Office for Government Policy Coordination, Prime Minister’s Office. Prior to his current post as Consul General in LA, he served as Director-General for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Prime Minister’s office. He also worked as Director-General for Planning and Management of the Foreign Ministry. His most recent foreign post was a Member of the Panel of Experts, UN Security Council Sanctions Committee at the United Nations headquarter. His foreign posts also include Washington D.C., New York, Beijing and Baghdad.
 
 

Munseob Lee is an economist who concentrates his research efforts on macroeconomics, growth and development, firm dynamics, and Korea. He has investigated the factors that determine the growth of firms, with a particular focus on how government purchases can promote long-term growth of small businesses. Additionally, he examined the disproportionate effect of inflation, revealing that low-income households and black families are the most affected by rising prices in the United States.

Lee, who is an Associate Director in GPS’s Korea-Pacific Program, teaches courses including Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Macroeconomics of Development and The Korean Economy.
 
 

In 2019, General Curtis “Mike” Scaparrotti completed a distinguished 41-year career in the U.S. Army as the Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO. Prior to that he served as the Commander of U.S. Forces Korea / United Nations Command / Combined Forces Command in Seoul from 2013 to 2016. Other prominent postings in his highly-decorated career include Director of the Joint Staff, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, the Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan, the Commanding General of I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division. Additionally, over the years, General Scaparrotti served in key leadership positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic level. He has commanded forces during Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), Support Hope (Zaire/Rwanda), Joint Endeavor (Bosnia-Herzegovina), and Assured Response (Liberia). General Scaparrotti holds a Master’s degree in Administrative Education from the University of South Carolina. In addition to his work with The Cohen Group, General Scaparrotti sits on the boards iof the Atlantic Council and Patriot Foundation, and is a Senior Fellow at the National Defense University.
 
 

Yoo Myung-hee served at the Ministries of Trade, Industry and Energy and Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea for nearly three decades before becoming Korea’s first female trade minister (2019-2021). In a variety of roles she designed and implemented Korea’s trade policy and negotiation strategies and led numerous bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations as Korea’s chief negotiator, including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and Korea’s free trade agreements with the United States and ASEAN. As trade minister, she contributed to international initiatives to ensure supply chain resilience and to address digital trade policy. She received her BA and MPA from Seoul National University and JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and currently teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University.

New Nuclear Dynamics of Northeast Asia

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Join us for a program that addresses the new nuclear dynamics of Northeast Asia produced in cooperation with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center. This panel discussion investigates how regional shifts in nuclear weapons capabilities and evolving doctrines affect the Korean Peninsula and beyond, with a focus on North Korea’s quickly developing nuclear and missile deterrent, the maturing nuclear capabilities of the People’s Republic of China, the US-ROK Alliance’s evolving nuclear posture, Russian aggression, and the role of trilateral US-Korea-Japan security cooperation. The panel consists of: Matthew Kroenig, Vice President and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy, Markus Garlauskas, director of the new Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Dr. Sue Mi Terry, and Major Jessica Taylor, USAFR and Princeton University, in conversation with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado.

 

 

New Nuclear Dynamics of Northeast Asia

Thursday, September 21, 2023 | 10 AM (EDT)


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350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

 

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Markus Garlauskas is the director of the new Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, which replaces the former Asia Security Initiative. He leads this new initiative’s efforts focused on security, prosperity, and freedom in the Indo-Pacific region. He led projects focused on deterrence and defense issues in East Asia as a nonresident senior fellow from August 2020 until assuming his duties as director in January 2023. Garlauskas served in the US government for nearly twenty years. He was appointed to the Senior National Intelligence Service as the National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for North Korea on the National Intelligence Council from July 2014 to June 2020. As NIO, he led the US intelligence community’s strategic analysis on North Korea issues and expanded analytic outreach to non-government experts. He also provided direct analytic support to top-level policy deliberations, including the presidential transition, as well as the Singapore and Hanoi summits with North Korea.
 
 

Dr. Matthew Kroenig is Vice President and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Council’s Director of Studies. In these roles, he manages the Scowcroft Center’s bipartisan team of more than thirty resident staff and oversees the Council’s extensive network of nonresident fellows. His own research focuses on US national security strategy, strategic competition with China and Russia, and strategic deterrence and weapons nonproliferation. Kroenig is currently a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. He previously served in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. He received the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. He was a national security adviser on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney (2012) and Marco Rubio (2016). Kroenig is also a tenured professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University. He has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, and Stanford University. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
 
 

Major Jessica Taylor, US Air Force Reserve, is a nonresident fellow in the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is currently pursuing her PhD in international relations with a focus on the Indo-Pacific as a part of the Security Studies program at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. In addition, Taylor is a logistics readiness officer in the US Air Force Reserve. Taylor has served in the US Department of Defense in both military and civil service capacities for nearly twenty years. She most recently served in South Korea from 2019 to 2021 as an international relations strategist where she provided geopolitical analysis and advice to the headquarters command staffs of United Nations Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command, and US Forces Korea. In addition to experience in East Asia, Taylor has had assignments in South Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Taylor holds a BA in biology from Baylor University and an MS in foreign service from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
 
 

Dr. Sue Mi Terry was the Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy from 2021-2023. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, Dr. Terry served in a range of important policy roles related to both Korea and its surrounding region. Formerly a Senior Fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she served as a Senior Analyst on Korean issues at the CIA (2001-2008), where she produced hundreds of intelligence assessments–including a record number of contributions to the President’s Daily Brief, the Intelligence Community’s most prestigious product. She received numerous awards for her leadership and outstanding mission support, including the CIA Foreign Language award in 2008. From 2008 to 2009, Dr. Terry was the Director for Korea, Japan, and Oceanic Affairs at the National Security Council under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. In that role, she formulated, coordinated, and implemented U.S. government policy on Korea and Japan, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. From 2009 to 2010, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council. She holds a Ph.D. (2001) and an M.A. (1998) in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. in political science from New York University (1993). She was born in Seoul and raised in Hawaii and Northern Virginia.

2023 Annual Dinner

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The 2023 Annual Dinner was held on September 20 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-ROK alliance, Korea Society Board Chair Ambassador Kathleen Stephens and Korea Society President and CEO Thomas J. Byrne welcomed all our guests to the gala to kick off the eventful evening. Emmy Award-winning anchor and reporter Vivian Lee expertly navigated us through the gala program as Master of Ceremonies.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

State of Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp delivered glowing remarks as keynote speaker. Governor Kemp highlighted Georgia’s commitment to furthering its special relationship and mutual understanding with Korean businesses investing in the state as well as with Korean-Americans who call Georgia home.

VAN FLEET AWARD CEREMONY


This year’s Van Fleet Award Honorees, the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), were accepted by Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp and KITA Chairman Christopher Koo on behalf of the respective organizations. Governor Kemp thanked The Korea Society for recognizing the bright future of Korean investment in Georgia and emphasized the impact of key figures across the Department of Economic Development who work to deepen the partnership of prosperity between the Republic of Korea and Georgia. Chairman Koo thanked the Society for recognizing KITA’s achievements in building trade and industry ties and strengthening friendships while looking forward to taking on the critical challenges that lie ahead.

GUEST SPEAKER


U.S. Representative for California’s 40th Congressional District Young Kim delivered virtual remarks as the evening’s guest speaker. In her remarks, Congresswoman Kim emphasized the importance of the U.S.-ROK alliance to the two nations’ continued economic success as well as peaceful geopolitical ties in the Indo-Pacific.

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Brian P. Kemp
Governor
State of Georgia 

 

VAN FLEET AWARD HONOREES

 
  Georgia Department
of Economic Development
 		  Korea International
Trade Association (KITA)
 		 
  Accepted by   Accepted by  
  Brian P. Kemp   Christopher Koo  
  Governor   Chairman  
  State of Georgia   Korea International Trade Association (KITA)  
 

GUEST SPEAKER

  Special Virtual Remarks by

Young Kim
Congresswoman
U.S. Representative for California’s 40th Congressional District

  
 

MASTER OF CEREMONIES

  Vivian Lee
TV Journalist & Correspondent
Asian American Life		  
 

PERFORMANCE

  I Love Dance  
 


The Plaza
Fifth Avenue at Central Park South
New York City

Reception 6:30 PM | Dinner 7:30 PM

Black Tie, Traditional Attire

AwardeesGuest SpeakerMaster of CeremoniesPERFORMANCETable Sponsorship and Individual TicketSUPPORTERS

     

Accepted by

Georgia Department of Economic Development

Accepted by
Brian P. Kemp
Governor
State of Georgia

Governor Brian P. Kemp is currently serving his second term as Georgia’s 83rd governor. Throughout the Kemp administration, Georgia has consistently broken economic records with jobs and investment in every corner of the state. Korea has become the state’s largest source of foreign direct investment in recent years, with a mission to Korea as Kemp’s first overseas mission as Governor in 2019. During Kemp’s term, Korean investment in the State of Georgia has increased nearly 600% through state-worked economic development projects alone. Under Kemp’s leadership, Georgia’s commitment to bringing opportunity to all of its citizens has led to a partnership with Korean job creators that is bringing generational investment to hardworking Georgians.

A native of Athens, Georgia, Brian Kemp started his first small business over 35 years ago. His experience as a small business owner has driven his mission as governor to put hardworking Georgians first, and his leadership is yielding historic economic results. Thanks to his decision to reopen first during the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point in state history, there are more Georgians working than ever before, and Georgia has been named the Top State for Business for an unprecedented nine consecutive years.

Governor Kemp, First Lady Marty Kemp, and their three daughters live on their family farm in Athens and are committed to building a safer, stronger Georgia for all who call the Peach State “home.”

 

     

Accepted by

Korea International Trade Association (KITA)

Accepted by
Christopher Koo
Chairman
Korea International Trade Association (KITA)

Christopher Koo is Chairman of Korea International Trade Association (KITA). In his capacity, he oversees the overall trade policies and promotion activities aimed at bolstering the Korean economy. Koo is concurrently Chairman of the Board at the LS Group while serving as Chairman of the Korea-US Economic Council (KUSEC), contributing to enhancing long-standing Korea-U.S. relationship.

Prior to his appointment to this position in February 2021, he dedicated his entire life to the world of business. Koo began his career in 1978 at the Bando Trading (currently LX International) where he held a position at the New York Office (1980-1984) and assumed the role of Regional Director of the Southeast Asian Regional Office in Singapore (1990-1992). He was also the Chief Sales Officer and later became Vice President of Sales (1997-2001) at the LG Investments & Securities (currently NH Investment & Securities). In October 2001, he joined LG Cable (currently LS Cable & System) and served as the Chairman of LS Group (2001-2021). Under his outstanding leadership, LS Group successfully transformed itself into the world’s 3rd largest wire and cable manufacturer.

As a former Chairman of Korea Cycling Federation (2015-2022), Mr. Koo is a renown cycling enthusiast and the first Asian cyclist to complete the Trans Alps Challenge. He is also a former Chairman of Korea Invention Promotion Association (2014-2021) and incumbent Chairman of Korea International Art Fair (Kiaf Seoul) Organizing Committee with tremendous contribution to the development of art, culture and science in Korea.

Known as a highly recognized business leader, he was honored with Korea’s Most Admired Executive Award in 2015 and Gold Order of Industrial Service Merit in 2009 for his unrivalled meritorious service in the growth of domestic industry.

Christopher Koo earned his B.A. in Business Administration from Korea University and completed degree coursework at London Business School. In 2023, he received an Honorary Ph. D. in Philosophy from Korea University.

     

Young Kim
Congresswoman
U.S. Representative for California’s 40th Congressional District

 

Representative Young Kim is proud to represent California’s 40th District, which includes parts of Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, in the U.S. House of Representatives. An immigrant, small business owner, community leader, former California Assemblywoman, mother, and grandmother, Young is proud to be one of the first Korean American women ever to serve in Congress and is fighting to help all Americans have the chance to achieve their dream just like she did.

In the House of Representatives, Young serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee – where she serves as Chairwoman of the Indo-Pacific Subcommittee and as a member of the Africa Subcommittee – and on the House Financial Services Committee – where she serves as Vice Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions and as a member of the Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee. Young also serves as co-chair of the Women in STEM Caucus, the Financial Literacy and Wealth Creation Caucus, and the Maternity Care Caucus.

In her first term, Young had nearly 30 bills pass out of the House of Representatives and more than a dozen signed into law. Her record was ranked among the most effective of members of Congress according to the Center for Effective Lawmaking, the Common Ground Committee, the Lugar Center and McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and data by Quorum Analytics. She also received the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Legislative Action Award.

Young and her husband Charles live in Anaheim Hills in CA-40 and are the proud parents of Christine, Kelly, Alvin and Hannah and grandparents of Mia and Caleb.

 

 

 

 

 

Vivian Lee
TV journalist & Correspondent
Asian American Life

Vivian Lee (she/her) is an Emmy-winning TV journalist, public speaker, moderator and director/producer in New York. She is currently a correspondent with Asian American Life, a production of CUNY-TV. Vivian also co-hosts a podcast called The 5 Of Us that examines issues affecting women who work. Before that she was an anchor, show host, and reporter for Spectrum News NY1.

During her 12 years at NY1, she covered numerous stories of national and international importance, including live, continuous coverage of the COVID pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and Joe Biden’s 2020 election win; Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of the city’s coastal communities, and Pope Francis’ election from Vatican City. Vivian was the first reporter from New York City to report Francis’ election live from St. Peter’s Square.

Vivian also hosted Spotlight New York, a weekly magazine show exploring the creative landscape of the five boroughs of NYC, its arts and cultural institutions, and up-and-coming performers as well as legacy artists. Her work was recognized in 2020 with an Emmy Award for her story on Manhattan’s famed Joe’s Pub.

Vivian’s career in New York started at WNBC in 2002, where she was a general assignment reporter covering local politics, transit, healthcare and education issues. Prior to that she was CityTV Toronto’s parliamentary correspondent and federal affairs reporter in Ottawa, Canada.

Vivian began reporting while completing her journalism degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, with stints at CJOH-TV Ottawa, ATV-ASN News Halifax, and A Channel Calgary, where she co-anchored the award-winning weeknight evening news show “A Channel News@Night.”

Vivian has received numerous awards recognizing her industry and community contributions, including the New York Women’s Foundation’s 2021 “Pillars of Courage” award, shared with four of her former NY1 colleagues. She also received KAFSC’s 2019 Lifetime Engagement Award. A featured speaker on numerous panels and workshops discussing ageism, gender discrimination and Asian American identity,

Vivian currently serves as co-chair of KoreanAmericanStory.org and lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.

 

I LOVE DANCE

I LOVE DANCE (ILD) was launched in 2006 by MJ Choi. Since its founding, it has evolved to galvanize K-POP culture in the greater NYC area. Today, it provides K-POP Dance Classes in Manhattan, Flushing, and Fort Lee NJ (Soon to open its 4th location in Long Island) where classes are filled with a fun-loving, diverse group of K-POP fans that share a very special bond.

A truly unique characteristic of I LOVE DANCE is that despite its predominant K-POP focus, more than 90% of its members are non-Korean. Students of various backgrounds meet not only to learn dance, but also to socialize and embrace each other’s uniqueness. Truly, this has been a testament to the growing popularity of the K-POP culture, as well as the unifying characteristic of dance as an art form.

Currently, I LOVE DANCE hosts about 1000 members enrolled in dance classes each month. Beyond offering top notch Dance Classes, I LOVE DANCE produces professional K-POP Cover Videos (~50 Million aggregate views to date on YouTube), organizes Flash Mobs, offers dance performances and workshops (Lincoln Center, Met Museum, AMNH Museum, Google, Samsung, Twitch, Etsy, Cigna), hosts auditions in collaboration with major Entertainment companies (YG, JYP, FNC, BigHit, Pledis, Hybe), and works to serve as an ambassador to spread K-POP culture in the US.

 

DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

DINNER COMMITTEE

LEADER – $100,000
• Recognition from the podium as Dinner Committee
• 10 guests for VIP reception; 10 guests for general reception
• 10 guests for dinner in premium seating; 10 guests for dinner in preferred seating
• Full-page Acknowledgment; corporate profile with photo and bio of corporate representative in the dinner program book

BENEFACTOR – $50,000
• Recognition from the podium as Dinner Committee
• 10 guests for VIP reception
• 10 guests in priority seating
• Full-page Acknowledgment; corporate profile with photo and bio of corporate representative in the dinner program book

PATRON – $30,000
• Recognition from the podium as Dinner Committee
• 4 guests for VIP reception; 6 guests for general reception
• 10 guests in preferred seating
• Full-page Acknowledgment; corporate profile with photo and bio of corporate representative in the dinner program book

In addition to above benefits, Dinner Committees will receive
• recognition by level on the event webpage, promotional emails, social media, and a large screen aside the stage in the event room.
• Year-round recognition in the Korea Society’s Annual Report

TABLE SPONSORSHIP

SPONSOR – $20,000
• 2 guests for VIP reception; 8 guests for general reception
• 10 guests for dinner
• Half-page Acknowledgment; corporate profile with photo of corporate representative in the dinner program book

DONOR – $15,000
• 10 guests for general reception and dinner
• Half-page Acknowledgment; corporate profile in the dinner program book

ALL SPONSORS BENEFITS INCLUDE:
• Recognition by level on event webpage, promotional emails, social media, and a large screen aside the stage in the event room.
• Year-round recognition in the Korea Society’s Annual Report

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT AND TICKETS

PATRON COUPLE – $6,000
• 2 tickets for VIP reception and preferred seating
• Acknowledgement on our website and in the dinner program book

PATRON – $3,500
• 1 ticket for VIP reception and preferred seating
• Acknowledgement on our website and in the dinner program book

CONTRIBUTOR – $1,000
• 1 ticket for general reception and dinner

Tickets

Tickets
 
Full Name

Title or Position
Company
Email

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Full-page in the dinner program book – $10,000
Half-page in the dinner program book – $6,000

Table Sponsorship and Individual Patron ticket registrations must be confirmed by August 30, 2023 to be acknowledged in the dinner program. Cancellations after September 8, 2023 will not be accepted.

The Korea Society is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

For further information on sponsorship opportunities or to purchase tickets, please contact Jamie Joo or by phone at (646) 439-4009.  

 

2023 Annual Dinner Sponsors
(as of August 21, 2023) 

 

Chair
 

 
Benefactor
 

 
 

 

 

 
Patron
 

 

 
Sponsor 
 

 

  

  

 

 
Donor 
 

  

  
Dr. Ho Youn Kim
Chairman of Binggrae Corporation Ltd.
Founder of the Kim Koo Foundation

 

  

  

  

  
Additional Supporter
 
Cynthia & Anthony Kim

 

  
In-Kind Donor
 
 

 
Special Acknowledgement
 
Young H.T. Cho
Chairman of Donghwa Cultural Foundation and SWPK Art Gallery
President of Anthrop-J Investment Group, LLC
 
Henry Do
President & CEO
POSCO America Corp. (POSAM)
 
Francis Kang
Head of Conference at Korea Blockchain Week
FactBlock
 
Athar Khan
Director of International Specialty Sales
Delta Air Lines
 
Jae Kim
President – Southeast U.S. Korean Chamber of Commerce
Senior Manager, Korea-U.S. Leader – Aprio, LLP
 
Mark Lippert
Senior Advisor, Korea Chair, CSIS
Former U.S. Ambassador to ROK
 
General (Ret) Skip and Joanne Sharp
Former Commander of the United Nations Command,
ROK-US Combined Forces Command, and U.S Forces Korea
 
Jeong Joon Yu
Vice Chairman and Head of US Government & Corporate Affairs
SK Group
 

 

 

Counterpoint | Three Ceramic Artists

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September 14-December 8, 2023|

Firing clay has been amongst the few mediums to have persevered through thousands of years. Three contemporary ceramic artists pursue their own exploration with clay while reshaping the tradition. Transcending the stereotype of the medium, Janny Baek, Steven Young Lee, and Sunkoo Yuh offer new perspectives shaped by cultural and social influences and reflect the shifting emphasis within the practice of ceramic art.

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Janny Baek is an artist and architect born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Queens, New York. Janny received her BFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design, and worked as a sculptor in animation and toys before completing her Masters in Architecture at Harvard University, and counts her experiences in craft, pop culture, industrial design and architecture as the major influences on her current work in ceramics. After founding her firm, McMahon-Baek Architecture, in 2014, Janny returned to making sculptures and started her ceramics practice in 2019. Baek currently lives and works in lower Manhattan with her husband and their two daughters.

Steven Young Lee is an artist in Helena, Montana. He was the Resident Artist Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for 16 years until 2022, where he maintained an active studio practice along with orchestrating an organization devoted to excellence in ceramics. In 2004-05, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China as part of a cultural and educational exchange in Jingdezhen, Shanghai and Beijing and spent two months in Seoul, South Korea studying ceramic tradition and history. In 2005-6 he was a visiting professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. Lee has lectured extensively in North America and Asia. In the Fall of 2016 he was one of four artists featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. In March 2013 he participated on a panel, “Americans in the Porcelain City,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Also in 2013, he was one of several international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA featuring contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition. In 2019, he had a solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. In 2021, his work was included in “Crafting America”, a survey of contemporary craft at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and OBJECTS:USA 2020 curated by Glenn Adamson in partnership with R&Co in New York, NY. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Everson Museum of Art, the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Korea, and many private and public collections. Lee earned his BFA and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University.

Sunkoo Yuh’s work is informed by his personal and intimate experiences in everyday life. He records these impressions as spontaneous yet intricate ink and brush works. Selected two-dimensional compositions are then represented and re-contextualized into conceptual and three-dimensional forms on a small to monumental scale. Yuh was born in 1960 in South Korea, immigrated to the U.S. in 1988 and now resides in Athens, GA, where he is a professor of art at the University of Georgia. He received his BFA degree from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea and his MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY. Yuh was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition, Icheon, Korea, The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant. His work is in the collections of The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, the Oakland Museum of Art, California and more.

 

 

Behind the Scenes: Writing a Picture Book

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Join two Korean-American picture book writers as they discuss the many different layers of consideration, introspection, and deliberation that go into conceiving and writing picture books, and the importance of humor and diversity in children’s literature.

For many young readers, being able to see themselves reflected in the books they read is a profound experience. Seeing and reading accurate representations of one’s own identity and culture provide a sense of visibility and relatability. Not only are diverse representations in children’s books important for children of color, but they’re important for all children, as they offer a chance to learn realities and experiences different from their own and to appreciate that difference.

Frances Cha, the bestselling author of If I Had Your Face who has just written a humorous picture book about centuries-old dokkaebi journeying from Korea to modern New York, will be in conversation with Aram Kim, author, illustrator and designer of children’s books, about writing and illustrating Korean-themed picture books for children.

During the event, picture books by Frances Cha and Aram Kim will be available for sale.
The Goblin Twins will be available on September 5, 2023. Available for pre-order.

 

Behind the Scenes: Writing a Picture Book
with Frances Cha & Aram Kim

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 6:30 PM (EDT)

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About the Speakers:

Frances Cha is the author of the novel If I Had Your Face, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, BBC and Esquire among other publications and is being translated into 11 languages. Born in Minnesota, she moved to Texas at age 4, Hong Kong at age 8 and South Korea at age 11. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she received a Dean’s Fellowship. She worked as the assistant managing editor of Samsung Economic Research Institute’s business journal in Seoul, and as a travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. She has taught media studies at Ewha Womens University and creative writing at Yonsei University. Currently, she teaches fiction workshop in the Columbia University MFA program. Her children’s book The Goblin Twins is forthcoming from Crown Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House) in September 2023.

 

Aram Kim is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and designer of children’s picture books. She was born in Ohio, raised in South Korea, and now lives in New York. By day, she is an Art Director at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. At all other times, she writes and illustrates her own stories. Her debut picture book Cat on the Bus was called a “beautifully designed visual work” by School Library Journal and included in the Children’s Choice Reading List 2017 as well as New York Public Library’s summer reading list 2018. No Kimchi For Me!, about family, food, and intergenerational connections, has universal themes, and at the same time celebrates Korean culture. It was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year 2018, and 2018 A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy by The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. It’s the first one in the series Yoomi, Friends and Family which also includes Let’s Go to Taekwondo! and Sunday Funday in Koreatown. Aram’s most recent book, Tomorrow is New Year’s Day is about Seollal, a Korean celebration of the Lunar New Year that came out in December 2022. Aram is a recipient of the 2022 Mills Tannenbaum Award for Children’s Literacy.

Chinese Views of North Korea’s Uncertain Future

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Join us for a discussion featuring Dr. Sungmin Cho, professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, an academic institute of the US Department of Defense, based in Hawaii. Dr. Cho will present research that analyzes Chinese texts focusing on North Korea’s regime stability, the country’s uncertain future, and the potential unification of the Korean Peninsula. The research encompasses a review of 62 Chinese journal articles and 29 expert commentaries written by Chinese scholars. Cho explains how examining the writings of Chinese civilian scholars helps decipher Chinese strategic thinking, despite the presence of censorship. Cho also provides an analytic framework for Beijing’s cost-benefit calculus regarding the potential unification of the Korean Peninsula, aiming to empower policymakers in Washington and Seoul to develop a more informed understanding and strategy. This program is a collaboration between The Korea Society’s Policy Department and the Education Department, and is moderated by policy director Jonathan Corrado.

 

Chinese Views of North Korea’s Uncertain Future

Friday, September 8, 2023 | 12 PM (EDT)

 


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Dr. Sungmin Cho is a professor of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), an academic institute of the US Department of Defense. His area of expertise covers US-China competition, Chinese politics and the geopolitics of Northeast Asia. Dr. Cho has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including World Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, The China Journal, Asian Security, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, and Korea Observer. His policy analysis also appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, and War on the Rocks. Dr.Cho contributed commentaries at the invitations of CSIS, Brookings and other think tanks. Prior to the academic career, Dr. Cho served in the Korean Army as an intelligence officer for three years, including seven-month deployment to Iraq. He earned B.A. in Political Science from Korea University, M.A. in International Relations from Peking University, and Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.

 

The South Korea Nuclear Debate

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What motivates interest among the South Korean population and national security expert community in the potential development of an indigenous nuclear deterrent? How likely is Seoul to go in this direction? And if it does, what are the costs, benefits, and implications for its economy, the US-Korea Alliance, the region, and the nonproliferation regime? Dr. Clint Work, Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), Dr. Lami Kim, College of Security Studies at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Dr. Bee Yun Jo, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, and Dr. Hyun-Binn Cho, The College of New Jersey, discuss with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado and program officer Chelsie Alexandre. 

 

 

The South Korea Nuclear Debate

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | 8 PM (EDT)


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Dr. Bee Yun Jo is Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Strategy (defense strategy division), Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). Before joining KIDA in 2020, she was Research Professor at Institute of International Affairs(IIA), Seoul National University, and full-time lecturer at East Asia International College(EIC), Yonsei University. Her research focuses on South Korea’s deterrence and defense strategy, particularly on ROK-US extended deterrence, US’s nuclear strategy, and alliance and armament in Northeast Asia. Her recent publications include US’s Low-yield Nuclear Weapons and Extended Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula(Seoul: KIDA, 2021), “Plan B for Non-Nuclear States in East Asia: Debating on Nuclear Latency as Means for Potential Deterrence”(National Strategy, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2021), and “The Nukes We Need: Retrofitting American Extended Deterrent”(Journal of Peace and Unification, 2022). She is evaluation committee member of ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MOFA), advisory committee member of Department of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, MOFA, and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative. She is also editorial board member of the Korean Political Science Association and member of planning board of Korean Association for Political and Diplomatic History. She holds Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors, from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She received M.A.(Valedictorian) and Ph.D. in International Studies from Graduate School of International Studies(GSIS), Seoul National University. She can be reached at bjo87@kida.re.kr.
 
 

Dr. Clint Work is a Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). In addition to his work on KEI’s publications and publication-related programs, Clint leads KEI’s University Outreach and conducts research, writing, and public engagement focused on US-Korea relations. Before joining KEI, Clint served as a Fellow in the Henry L. Stimson Center’s 38 North Program from 2020-2022, where he focused on issues related to US-ROK alliance transformation, led Congressional engagement about peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, and organized and moderated a military working group centered on North Korea’s evolving “checkerboard” threat. He also worked with a broad range of universities and state and local organizations throughout the country to foster public engagement on US-Korea relations. Prior to joining Stimson, Dr. Work was an assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Asia Campus in South Korea and the regular foreign policy writer for The Diplomat Magazine’s Koreas page. He holds a Doctorate in International Studies from the University of Washington and a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his work focuses on the Korean Peninsula, US-Korean relations, East Asia, and US foreign policy. He is currently writing on the history and evolution of the US force presence on the Korean Peninsula and US-ROK alliance transformation in the post-Cold War era. In addition to his academic publications, he has written extensively for popular media, including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat Magazine, War on the Rocks, The National Interest, 38 North, and Sino-NK. He regularly provides commentary to U.S. and foreign media outlets, such as The Economist, Time Magazine, NPR, and Arirang News.
 
 

Dr. Lami Kim is a Professor at the College of Security Studies at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is also serving as a Nonresident Visiting Scholar at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, a member of the Project on Nuclear Issues Mid-career Cadre at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar, and an Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum. Her research interests are the intersection between international security and technology, including nuclear and emerging technologies, and security issues in East Asia. Her work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, Global Governance, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Bureau of Asian Research, Routledge, the National Interest, the Diplomat and CSIS. Until June 2023, she served as Associate Professor and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the U.S. Army War College, where she also serves as Director of the Cyber Command Strategy Fundamentals Program. Previously, she served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center, the Wilson Center, Pacific Forum, and the Stimson Center; as a Nuclear Scholar, a US-Korea NextGen Scholar, and a Security and Statecraft Fellow at CSIS; as a Visiting Fellow at Seoul National University and the East-West Center; and also as a South Korean diplomat. She has taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and the University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.
 
 

Dr. Hyun-Binn Cho is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at The College of New Jersey. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research interests are in international security, nuclear security, and security in the Asia-Pacific, with a regional focus on China and North Korea. His work is published or forthcoming in Security Studies, The Washington Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and The National Interest. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, an M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and a B.Sc. in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is from Seoul, South Korea.

Koreatown LA/NY

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Two young Korean-American photographers present a series of images, a poignant portrait of a community and its habitants from the areas considered to be “Koreatown”—one in Los Angeles, one in New York. Emanuel Hahn and Janice Chung document the lives and stories in two of the most diverse neighborhoods in America, as the communities and neighborhoods themselves continue to evolve and change. It is a celebration of the Korean immigrants and their experiences, and the artists ask the viewer to reconsider the common notions of what it means to be from “here.”

Emanuel Hahn‘s Koreatown Dreaming series was born out of a sense of urgency to document the stories of Koreatown LA during the Covid-19 pandemic and creeping gentrification. Although Koreatown is increasingly a popular destination for tourists and transplants, many small businesses in Koreatown serving the local population are closing, and long-time establishments and mom-and-pop stores have disappeared without leaving a record of their history and contributions to the city of Los Angeles. Documenting the lives and stories of those who are still surviving, his photo series offers a compelling insight into this entrepreneurial immigrant group.

In her HAN IN TOWN series, Janice Chung captures what was once the epicenter of Koreatown in New York City—Flushing, Queens—and focuses on the various businesses that have continued to serve the Korean-American community through all of the neighborhood’s transformations. By spotlighting these businesses, Chung investigates communal nostalgia for a Flushing of the past. Her other series Where Are You? uncovers a vulnerable search for identity and belonging within the intimate spaces of family. Documented over the course of five years, photographs taken in her hometown of Queens weave together the places of Chung’s childhood. Viewers are asked to take a second glance and remain just a while longer in the generational gaps and cultural tensions felt by Korean Americans.

 

Artist Talk: Emanuel Hahn

  

Artist Talk: Janice Chung

 

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Emanuel Hahn is a Los Angeles-based photographer and director. As a Korean Third Culture Kid growing up in Singapore and Cambodia, he developed an interest in storytelling around topics of identity, diasporic experiences and the question of what it means “to belong”. His deep observational and listening abilities have led him to tell the stories of the coffee farmers in Colombia, Chinese grocery store owners in the Mississippi Delta, the Korean Uzbeks in Brooklyn, and most recently the Koreatown community in Los Angeles through his photo book Koreatown Dreaming.

Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Janice Chung is a Korean American photographer whose work explores themes of nostalgia, home, and the hyphenated experience. Often utilizing the natural elements in her environment, Chung examines the nuanced complexities of Korean American identity within the diasporic struggle and immigrant narrative. Chung’s work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Hyperallergic, Damn Magazine, and Booooooom.