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Reading China: A Roundtable with Zichen Wang

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Join us for this roundtable discussion with Zichen Wang, Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and founder of the Pekingnology newsletter on China, for a discussion on the complexities, contradictions, and communications of China’s policies. This roundtable is hosted in collaboration with The National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR). The moderator of the discussion is The Korea Society President and CEO Thomas Byrne.

The Korea Society thanks our corporate sponsors and individual members and the Korea Foundation for their generous support, which has made this program possible.

 
 
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Reading China: A Roundtable with Zichen Wang

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 2 PM


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Zichen Wang is the Founder and Editor of the *Pekingnology* newsletter. Born and raised in China, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Shandong Economic University (now Shandong University of Finance and Economics) in July 2011. Zichen then went on to work for Xinhua News Agency for over 11 years, including a 29-month stint in Brussels where he covered the European Union. In October 2022, he left Xinhua to join the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading non-government think tank in Beijing, where he currently serves as a Research Fellow and Director for International Communications.

Zichen is currently pursuing a mid-career Master in Public Policy (MPP) at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Princeton University, fully funded by a SPIA fellowship.

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon with Ankit Panda

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Join us for a conversation with Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on his newly published book: The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon. The book describes how “nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of international statecraft in ways unseen since the Cold War… The prospect of nuclear escalation is again shaping how political decision-makers and military establishments around the world think and act.” The book includes a passage on North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, the subject of Panda’s first book, and the debate over South Korea acquiring an indigenous deterrent. This program is moderated by Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado.

This program is produced in collaboration with Temple University Japan and made possible by the generous support of our individual and corporate members and the Korea Foundation.
 

 

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon with Ankit Panda

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 12 PM (EDT)


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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research interests include nuclear strategy, escalation, missiles and missile defense, space security, and U.S. alliances. He is the author of The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon (Polity, 2025), Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Risks (Carnegie, 2023), and Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst/Oxford, 2020). Panda is co-editor of New Approaches to Verifying and Monitoring North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal (Carnegie, 2021).

Panda has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva, and his analysis has been sought by U.S. Strategic Command, Space Command, and Indo-Pacific Command. Panda is among the most highly cited experts worldwide on North Korean nuclear capabilities. He has testified on matters related to South Korea and Japan before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Panda has also testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. Before joining Carnegie, Panda was an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and a journalist covering international security.

Panda is a frequent expert commentator in print and broadcast media around the world on nuclear policy and defense matters. His work has appeared in or been featured by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Economist, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Atlantic, the New Republic, the South China Morning Post, Politico, and the National Interest. Panda has also published in scholarly journals, including Survival, the Washington Quarterly, and India Review, and has contributed to the IISS Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment and Strategic Survey. He is editor-at-large at the Diplomat, where he hosts the Asia Geopolitics podcast, and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks, where he hosts Thinking the Unthinkable With Ankit Panda, a podcast on nuclear matters.

 

A Conversation with Ambassador (Ret.) Raymond Burghardt

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Join us for a discussion co-hosted by The Korea Society and Temple University Japan with Ambassador Raymond Burghardt, who served for many years as one of the leading Asian specialists in the U.S. Foreign Service. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) from 2006 to 2016. Previously, he was Ambassador to Vietnam (2001-2004), AIT Director in Taipei (1999-2001), Consul General in Shanghai (1997-1999), Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Manila (1993-1996) and Seoul (1990-1993) and Political Counselor in Beijing (1987-1989). Ambassador Burghardt joins in conversation with Temple University Japan Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies Co-Director Robert Dujarric, senior vice president at Park Strategies Sean King, and Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado. 

This program is made possible by the generous support of our individual and corporate members and the Korea Foundation.

 

A Conversation with Ambassador (Ret.) Raymond Burghardt 

U.S. relations with Taiwan and America’s Asian allies under Trump 2.0

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 10:30 AM 


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Raymond Burghardt served for many years as one of the leading Asian specialists in the U.S. Foreign Service. Currently, he is consultant for the Institute for Defense Analyses, president of Pacific Century Institute, and advisor on Asia to a major US financial company. He was formerly Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) from 2006 to 2016. Prior to that, he was Ambassador to Vietnam (2001-2004), AIT Director in Taipei (1999-2001), Consul General in Shanghai (1997-1999), Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Manila (1993-1996) and Seoul (1990-1993) and Political Counselor in Beijing (1987-1989). Burghardt’s earlier career included an assignment on the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to President Reagan and Senior Director of Latin American Affairs. From 2006 until December 2012, Burghardt served concurrently with his AIT position as Director of East-West Seminars at the East-West Center in Honolulu.  Burghardt received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1967 and did graduate study at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a native and current resident of New York City.

 

Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation Series on Ethics & Common Values: A Conversation with Ilyon Woo

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With the ever-growing need to understand ourselves and humanity as a whole, it is necessary to examine the concepts of morality, ethics and universal values as guiding principles of the human condition. With generous support from Y.T. Hwang Family Foundation, The Korea Society presents a Series on Ethics and Common Values.

This series promotes the understanding of central themes of our human existence – morality, ethics, personal responsibility, compassion and civility – through a series of lectures by distinguished speakers and conversation with extraordinary individuals who exemplify the universal values in line with the mission of Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation and The Korea Society.

The Korea Society and Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation is proud to present Ilyon Woo in a conversation with Ed Park.

 

 This program is made possible by the support from Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation

 

Y. T. Hwang Family Foundation
Series on Ethics & Common Values
A Conversation with Ilyon Woo

Wednesday, April 23, 2024 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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Ilyon Woo is the New York Times best-selling author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

Time Magazine called Master Slave Husband Wife an “edge-of-your-seat drama”; The Wall Street Journal pronounced it: “A narrative of such courage and resourcefulness it seems too dashing to be true…. a ‘genuine nail-biter.’” It was one of the New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2023” and People Magazine’s “Top Ten Books of 2023,” also named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, and Oprah Daily. A finalist for a Kirkus Prize, the book was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal, nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards, and supported by a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant.

Woo is also the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and The New York Times. Woo has traveled the country to speak at bookstores, museums, schools, and book festivals, and she has been featured on such programs as NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and CBS Sunday Morning. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

 

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Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bookforum, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. He is a founding editor of The Believer and the former literary editor of The Village Voice, and has worked in newspapers and book publishing. He currently teaches writing at Princeton University.

 

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Acting and Activism with Minnie Mills

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Join us for a conversation on acting and activism with actress and North Korean human rights activist Minnie Mills and Korea Society policy program officer Chelsie Alexandre. Exploring the origin and development of her professional acting career, Minnie discusses roles on “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “Obliterated,” and future projects. She then describes her passion for supporting North Korean refugees through volunteering for the nongovernmental organization Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). How does she balance work with school and volunteering? What has she learned from North Korean refugees? An introduction is provided by Dr. Victor Cha, Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University, and President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department, CSIS.

This program is made possible by the generous support of the Kim Koo Foundation.

 

 

 

Acting and Activism with Minnie Mills

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 4 PM (EDT)


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Actress Celine “Minnie” Mills is best known for her role as ‘Shayla’ in the hit Amazon Prime Video series THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY. She now stars as ‘Jen’ in Sony Pictures Television Studios and Netflix’s action-comedy series OBLITERATED, and voices the lead role ‘Ruby / Venus’ in the rom-com podcast series DUMP HIM!

In addition to acting, Minnie has been a lifelong advocate for North Korean Human Rights, working closely with the organization Liberty in North Korea. She currently works under Ambassador Julie Turner at the State Department and was recently appointed Goodwill Messenger. Minnie also studies Behavioral Neuroscience at Columbia University.

 

 

 

Victor Cha is president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also a distinguished university professor and professor of government at Georgetown University. In 2021, he was appointed by the Biden administration to serve on the Defense Policy Board in an advisory role to the secretary of defense. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the National Security Council (NSC), where he was responsible for Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island nations. Dr. Cha was the U.S. deputy head of delegation at the Six Party Talks and received two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the NSC. He is the author of eight books, including the award-winning Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States–Korea–Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press, 1999), which won the 2000 Ohira Book Prize; The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco, 2012), selected by Foreign Affairs as a “Best Book on the Asia-Pacific for 2012”; Powerplay: Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, 2018); Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale University Press, 2023); and The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea (Columbia University Press, 2024). Dr. Cha is a two-time Fulbright scholar and a former Olin Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a former Hoover, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), and Koret fellow at Stanford University. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ten academic journals and is coeditor of the Contemporary Asia book series at Columbia University Press. He serves on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and is a senior fellow at the George W. Bush Institute. Dr. Cha received his PhD, MIA, and BA from Columbia University and a BA with honors from Oxford University.

Umma: A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes

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Sarah Ahn’s viral food videos featuring her mother Nam Soon Ahn have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational home life. Their latest collaboration is a must-have cookbook Umma: A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes, which captures the flavors, traditions, and stories of Korean cooking. The recipes are framed by mother-daughter conversations that are funny, profound, and universally relatable—plus all the food is backed by the recipe-testing power of America’s Test Kitchen.

In a conversation with Eric Kim of the New York Times, Sarah and Nam Soon Ahn discuss their debut cookbook.

 

 

Umma: A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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About the Speakers:

 

Sarah Ahn is America’s Test Kitchens social media manager and the creator of the Ahnest Kitchen website. She records her experiences on Instagram and TikTok of living with her Korean immigrant parents, chronicling her mother’s cooking, grocery shopping trips, and more. Many of Sarah’s posts have gone viral with 10+ million views and they have sold grocery stores out of product. She has been featured on NBC News, ABC News, Yahoo News, and Good Morning America. Nam Soon Ahn, her mother, is a former restaurateur whose culinary wisdom and recipes form the foundation of this book. Together, they honor their heritage with love, flavor, and authenticity.

 

About the Moderator:

 

Eric Kim is a New York Times staff writer and essayist born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His debut cookbook, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, was an instant New York Times Best Seller. A former digital manager for the Food Network and contributing editor for Saveur magazine, he now hosts regular videos on NYT Cooking’s YouTube channel and writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine.

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Korea’s Politics of the Vortex: 2025

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Join us for a discussion about the legacy, implications, and a modern application of the theories from Gregory Henderson’s 1968 seminal text Korea: The Politics of the Vortex, with Edward J. Baker, advisor to the Harvard University Korea Institute, and Dr. Ingu Hwang, Associate Professor of the Practice at Boston College. The discussion will also address Hwang’s 2022 book, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea, which examines the role of South Korean pro-democracy actors in (re)shaping the global history of human rights activism and politics in the 1970s. The moderator for this program is Korea Society president and CEO Tom Byrne. 

This program is made possible by the generous support of the Kim Koo Foundation. 
 

 

Korea’s Politics of the Vortex: 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 4 PM (EDT)


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Edward J. Baker’s interest in Korea began with Peace Corps service, with his wife Diane, there in 1966-68. He has lived in Korea all together for about 10 years and has traveled widely in Asia. He has a BA from Colby College, a JD from Yale Law School and an MA in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard. He was a staff member of the Subcommittee on International Organizations (chair Donald M. Fraser, D MN) of the U.S. House of Representatives during its Investigation of Korean-American Relations in 1977-78 and one of the authors of its final report. He was the associate director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute for 25 years and taught East Asian and Korean history at Hanyang University and Seoul National University from 2007 through 2010.

Until the thorough democratization of the Republic of Korea marked by the December,1997 election of President Kim Dae Jung, he frequently wrote and spoke on South Korean political affairs. He was a founding member of the board of Asia Watch in 1985 (now Human Rights Watch—Asia) and was Amnesty International’s US South Korea coordinator from 1979-91. In recent years he has taken a strong interest in attempting to promote a peaceful solution to the confrontation between North Korea and the US/South Korea and the reunification of Korea.
 

Ingu Hwang received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Chicago in 2015. Currently, he is an associate professor of the Practice in the International Studies Program, an affiliated professor in the History Department and the Asian Studies Program. Prof. Hwang is also the Leader of the Global Korea Project at Boston College. He offers interdisciplinary courses on modern and contemporary Korea and East Asia that explore colonial/post-colonial experiences, division and geo-politics, the Korean War, development and social justice, human rights history in global contexts.  

His research centers on contemporary transnational and global Korean history with a focus on  the topics of democracy, peace, security, and human rights. His first book, Human Rights and  Transnational Democracy in South Korea, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press  Human Rights Series in 2022, offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea’s democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Other publications include contributions to the Korea Democracy Foundation’s book, 1970s Korean Democratization and Protestants (Korean), published in 2024 and to the Kim Dae-jung Peace Foundation’s Kim Dae-Jung’s Thoughts and Politics: Peace, Democracy, Reconciliation, and Cooperation (Korean), published in 2023. Currently, he is working on his second monograph, the first scholarly biography of Nobel Prize recipient Kim Dae-jung. The monograph utilizes a global political and cultural lens to analyze Kim’s engagements with Korean, regional, and international political discourses and policies from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Andrew Ahn: A Director’s Talk

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This spring, from director Andrew Ahn comes The Wedding Banquet, a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent that includes Bowen Yang, Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-Jung, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee’s beloved, award-winning rom-com teems with humor and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.

Join us for a conversation with Andrew Ahn about his latest film and his career.

 

 

Andrew Ahn: A Director’s Talk

Thursday, April 3, 2025 | 6:30 PM (EDT)


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About the Speaker:

Andrew Ahn is a Korean American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Ahn’s latest film The Wedding Banquet starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Kelly Marie Tran premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. His previous film Fire Island was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won the Ensemble Tribute at the 2023 Gotham Awards and a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Film Streaming/TV. Ahn’s sophomore feature Driveways premiered at the 2019 Berlinale and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Screenplay and Best Lead Actress for Hong Chau. Ahn’s first film Spa Night premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance. The film went on to win the 2017 John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award.

Ahn has directed both fiction and documentary television, including Bridgerton and Generation. He has promoted diversity in the arts by mentoring youth filmmakers through programs like Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices, Outfest’s OutSet, and the Sundance Institute’s Native Filmmaker Lab. He graduated from Brown University and received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

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Unlocking Korea’s Tech Potential – Strengthening U.S. Investment and Innovation

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Korea’s thriving tech industry—driven by global brands and cutting-edge innovation—continues to attract substantial foreign investment, even as the regulatory landscape evolves. Korea’s recent proposed online platform regulations have drawn significant attention for its impacts on major tech companies and the broader competitive landscape in the country’s technologically advanced market.

To tackle these developments and their implications for US-Korea’s tech investment relations, this program will convene a panel with experts across both U.S. and Korean tech industries that will share their valuable firsthand insights and perspectives on critical matters such as key factors and challenges of investing within Korea’s regulatory framework, as well as policy measures and incentives that could further strengthen Korea’s strengths as a premier destination for U.S. investment.

 

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Unlocking Korea’s Tech Potential – Strengthening U.S. Investment and Innovation

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | 12:00 PM (EDT)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Scott Jacobs, Head of Public Policy, Global Government Affairs, Coupang

Scott Jacobs is currently Head of Public Policy, Global Government Affairs at Coupang, a U.S. technology and Fortune 200 company (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Coupang Eats, Coupang Play, and Farfetch. Previously, Mr. Jacobs was a Senior Manager for Trade and Social Responsibility at Amazon, where he led the company’s public policy work and partnerships on human rights, anticorruption, supply chains, U.S.-China trade, and other economic security issues.

Prior to joining Amazon, Scott Jacobs was a Vice President at Albright Stonebridge Group, a leading international consulting firm led by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, where he advised multinational clients including Fortune 500s, global investors, foundations, and non-profits on government affairs and business strategy.

In the Obama administration, Mr. Jacobs served in the Office of the United States Trade Representative as Confidential Assistant to the Deputy USTR before being selected to join Ambassador Ron Kirk’s staff as an Advisor and acting Director of the Executive Secretariat. In these roles, he focused on policy and trade matters related to Europe and the Middle East, Western Hemisphere, intellectual property, and small business market access.

Previously, Mr. Jacobs worked in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs, where he assisted with special projects and produced weekly reports for then Vice President Joe Biden’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) task force.

Ji Hyun Lee, Economic Research Lead, AWS

Ji Hyun Lee is a seasoned economist with expertise in international economics. She currently serves as the Economic Research Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Washington, D.C., where she leads research on the economic impact of AWS’s global business operations. Ji Hyun has played a pivotal role in the company’s expansion, developing innovative research products, including studies on the downstream economic impact of cloud adoption, AIML adoption, and the economic and environmental impacts of AWS’s energy-related investments.

Before joining AWS, Ji Hyun served as a Director of Quantitative Analytics and Data Science at Gartner, where she guided C-level executives using research driven by advanced analytics and econometric models, while also leading sustainability and ESG initiatives. Her career includes significant roles at the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency and the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea, where she contributed to shaping South Korea’s “Low Carbon, Green Growth Vision.” Ji Hyun holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in International Economics & International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, as well as M.A. and B.A. degrees from Seoul National University.

Lilla Nora Kiss, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst, Antitrust & Innovation Policy, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
(ITIF)

Lilla Nóra Kiss, PhD is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy. Her research focuses on international antitrust law and innovation policy, with a focus on digital platforms.

Lilla also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Global Antitrust Institute of Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Lilla instructs students in Antitrust Law and Consumer Protection Law in the LLM in Global Antitrust Law & Economics program.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

Tami Overby, Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group

Tami Overby is a Senior Counselor at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Washington, D.C. She draws on more than three decades of experience working in Asia to advise clients on investment and trade issues in South Korea and across the region.

Ms. Overby most recently served as Senior Director at McLarty Associates. Previously, she was Senior Vice President for Asia and President of the U.S.-Korea Business Council at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the latter role, she represented U.S. businesses during negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), directed the Chamber’s work with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and helped companies navigate market access and investment issues throughout the region.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Overby spent 14 years as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, where she helped grow the bilateral trade relationship and supported the completion and ratification of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. She currently sits on the boards of the Korea Society, the U.S.-Asia Institute and the Korea Economic Institute.

Ms. Overby received her B.S. in business administration and management from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

 

Charting Future Pathways for U.S.-Korea-Japan Trilateral Relations

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Join us for a discussion on the current status and future pathways for U.S.-Korea-Japan trilateral relations, with Dr. Joshua Walker, President and CEO of Japan Society, and Emma Chanlett-Avery, Deputy Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Washington DC office and the Director for Political-Security Affairs. The moderator for this program is Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado.

This program is made possible by the generous support of the Kim Koo Foundation. 

The Korea Society thanks our corporate sponsors and individual members and the Korea Foundation for their generous support, which has made this program possible.

  

Charting Future Pathways for U.S.-Korea-Japan Trilateral Relations

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 4 PM (EDT)


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About the Speakers:

 

Emma Chanlett-Avery is Deputy Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Washington, DC office and the Director for Political-Security Affairs. Previous to this post, she served for 20 years as a Specialist in Asian Affairs at the Congressional Research Service, where she focused on U.S. relations with Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Thailand, and Singapore, with an emphasis on security issues and alliances. In 2023, she served as a Congressional Fellow on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, assisting the Chairman with drafting Asia policy legislation and preparing for hearings. Ms. Chanlett-Avery was a Presidential Management Fellow, with rotations in the State Department on the Korea Desk and at the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group in Bangkok, Thailand. She also worked in the Office of Policy Planning as a Harold Rosenthal Fellow. She is a member of the Mansfield Foundation U.S. – Japan Network for the Future and a Mansfield-Luce Asia Network Scholar. In 2016, she received the Kato Prize, awarded by Washington think tanks for strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Japan America Societies, Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japan America Society of Washington DC, and as a Trustee of International Student Conferences, Inc. Ms. Chanlett-Avery received an MA in international security policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and her BA in Russian studies from Amherst College.

 
 

Joshua W. Walker, PhD became President & CEO of Japan Society in December 2019. Previously, he worked at Eurasia Group, the world’s leading political risk analysis firm, where he served as global head of strategic initiatives and Japan in the Office of the President. Prior to that, he was CEO and president of the USA Pavilion of the 2017 World Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan; founding dean of the APCO Institute; and senior vice president of global programs at APCO Worldwide, a leading global strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the private sector, he worked in numerous roles at various U.S. government agencies, including the State Department and the Defense Department. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and professor of Leadership and the American presidency at George Mason University and the Reagan Foundation. He was also Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and co-founded the Yale Journal of International Affairs. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a doctorate from Princeton University. Dr. Walker grew up in Japan where his parents still serve as missionaries, came to the United States when he was 18, and is bicultural and bilingual.