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Korea’s Compressed Modernity and Its Risks

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Join us for our second conversation with Seoul National University sociology Professor Chang Kyung-Sup who will discuss various challenges posed by South Korea’s “compressed modernity.” He writes that the same strategies and conditions that enabled explosive development and modernization in South Korea and other Asian societies also produced “existentially hazardous consequences in virtually all areas of public and private life, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to sustained advances in the future.” And he argues that South Korea’s dynamism flows from the methods that it utilizes to overcome such challenges. This program is a collaboration with the Society’s Policy Department and the Education Department. 

Professor Chang is joined in conversation with education senior advisor Linda Tobash, policy director Jonathan Corrado, and policy program officer Chelsie Alexandre. 

Paperback copies of Professor Chang’s newest book, The Risk of Compressed Modernity, are available for purchase online at a 20% discount using the code 20KSC. You can view our first discussion with Professor Chang in 2023 here. 

This program is made possible by the generous support of our individual and corporate members and the Korea Foundation. Promotional support for this program is provided by The Institute of Social Sciences at Seoul National University (SNU ISS). 

 

Korea’s Compressed Modernity and Its Risks

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 8 AM (EDT)


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350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
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About the Speaker:

Chang Kyung-Sup is a SNU Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University, where he has taught sociology since 1991. His work has dealt with comparative development and modernity, Korean liberalism, Asian citizenship regimes, and Asian transnationalism. His authored books include: The Risk of Compressed Modernity (Polity, 2025); The Logic of Compressed Modernity (Polity, 2022); Transformative Citizenship in South Korea: Politics of Transformative Contributory Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); Developmental Liberalism in South Korea: Formation, Degeneration, and Transnationalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition (Routledge, 2010); Asia In Itself: The Rise of a Continental Society (Polity, in progress). He is also a co editor of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 5 Volumes (Wiley, 2017).

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The Unseen Resilience of North Korean Female Defectors

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North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategy

Join us for a discussion on the unseen resilience of North Korean female defectors. Kim Seonghui and Na Min-Hee provide powerful personal testimony, describing their life and experiences in North Korea, their escape, and their new life in South Korea. Human rights advocate and expert Kwon EunKyoung joins the discussion, which is moderated by policy director Jonathan Corrado.

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

 
 

The Unseen Resilience of North Korean Female Defectors

Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 4 PM (EDT)


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Kim Seonghui fled North Korea in 2008 to give her daughter a life free from the violence and indignity she faced as a woman. In North Korea, Kim worked as a nurse, witnessing harrowing conditions caused by the absence of medicine, equipment, electricity, and basic supplies. Now in South Korea, she runs Hanadoga (“House of Unity”), a North Korean-style distillery brewing alcohol — as her mother once did — and leads volunteer efforts to support vulnerable people in her community.

 

 

 

Na Min-Hee is originally from Pyongyang. She was working in Malta as a state-dispatched overseas laborer when she first encountered the world outside of North Korea—and was struck by the freedom and dignity with which women lived abroad. Despite strict surveillance, she fled to Germany in 2015 and, eventually found refuge in South Korea. Now living in South Korea, Na is happily married and committed to reclaiming her voice and agency as a woman. She shares her story and perspectives openly through her YouTube channel with 162K subscribers, determined to speak not from fear or silence, but with strength and autonomy.

 

 

 

Kwon EunKyoung is the Director of the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NK Net) and Secretary General of the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK). She focuses on creating effective strategies to improve the quality of life for North Korean people and to raise their awareness of the values shared by the global community. She works to broaden channels that connect the world with the hearts and lives of the North Korean people.

Rapid Reaction: The First Trump-Lee Summit

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Join us for a timely discussion on the highly anticipated first meeting between US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. Taking place after the agreement of a new trade framework on July 30, this meeting may address such diverse topics as: Korean investments into the US, Alliance cost sharing and modernization efforts, trilateral US-Korea-Japan collaboration, and coordination on North Korea. Expert panelists unpack summit expectations, outcomes, and implications. This discussion features Dr. Katrin Katz, The Korea Society’s inaugural Van Fleet Nonresident Senior Fellow, and Josh Smith, Korea Bureau Chief for Reuters News Agency, in conversation with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado and program officer Chelsie Alexandre.

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

 
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Rapid Reaction: The First Trump-Lee Summit

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 | 8 AM (EDT)

 

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Dr. Katrin Fraser Katz is The Korea Society’s inaugural Van Fleet Nonresident Senior Fellow. Dr. Katz is a former director for Japan, Korea, and oceanic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, where she served from 2007 to 2008. She is also a Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and the Master of Arts in International Administration (MAIA) program at the University of Miami and an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Previously, she was a special assistant to the assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. She was previously an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and has also taught at Georgetown University. In 2017, Dr. Katz received the inaugural Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award from The Korea Society. Dr. Katz’s research, which has been supported by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, explores the interplay of cooperation and conflict in East Asia’s political, economic, and security dynamics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University; a master’s degree in East Asian and international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she was awarded the John C. Perry Scholarship for East Asian Studies; and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in international relations and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania.

 
 
Josh Smith is the bureau chief for Reuters in Seoul. He has covered North and South Korea since 2017, including the tensions during the 2017 period, the Trump-Kim summits in 2018 and 2019, a reporting trip to Pyongyang, and South Korea’s recent martial law crisis. He previously covered politics and policy in Washington DC and lived for five years in Kabul where he covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
 

North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategy

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North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategy

Join us for a discussion on the rising scale and sophistication of North Korea’s cyber operations with Mitch Haszard, senior threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, and Scott Kardas, geopolitical threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future. How does North Korea’s cyber activities fit into the Kim regime’s larger goals? How can the U.S., South Korea, and the broader international community respond to this threat? This program will follow the evolution and growing magnitude of the regime’s cyber operations and its attacks. The conversation will be moderated by policy program officer Chelsie Alexandre.
 
https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/north-koreas-cyber-strategy
https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/north-koreans-continue-to-use-foreign-technology
https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/inside-the-scam-north-koreas-it-worker-threat

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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North Korea’s Evolving Cyber Strategy

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 | 12 PM (EDT)


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Mitch Haszard is a Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst on the Strategic and Persistent Threats team at Recorded Future. The Strategic and Persistent Threats team focuses on tracking and researching state-sponsored cyber activity. Mitch holds an MS in Cybersecurity from New York University, an MA in International Studies from Yonsei University, and a BS in International Business from the University of Maryland, Global Campus.

 

 

 

Scott Kardas is a geopolitical threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future. He first went to Korea to teach English in 2012. He got his Masters degree from Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies in 2017. From 2018-2020, Scott worked as a civilian instructor at the Korea Military Academy (육군사관학교). Since 2021, Scott has worked as an analyst focusing on the geopolitics of Northeast Asia.

 

Remembering The Korean War

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Join us for a conversation on the enduring legacy and impact of The Korean War and the U.S.-Korea Alliance. The Korean War Armistice Agreement, which remains in effect today, was signed 72 years ago on July 27, 1953. 

The program opens with prerecorded remarks from Korea Society president and CEO Tom Byrne filmed at the base of the Korean War Memorial in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing, Queens titled: Remembering ‘The Forgotten War.’ 

Introductory remarks are provided by Consul Choong-geon Lee from the Republic of Korea New York Consulate, Korean War Veteran Mr. Jack Foley, and Brigadier General (Ret.) Chris Stockel, NYC Metro Area chapter president of the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA). This program is produced in collaboration with KDVA. Following the introductions, author Dr. Michael Devine discusses his book, The Korean War Remembered: Contested Memories of an Unended Conflict (for sale here at 40% discount with the code 6AS23), which explores how conflicting “theaters of memory” in the United States, South Korea, North Korea, and China “have evolved over decades and how they continue to shape the domestic and foreign policies of the countries still involved in this unresolved struggle…” The moderator is policy program director Jonathan Corrado. 

This program is also a collaboration with The Korea Society education department and is attended by participants from The Korea-America Student Conference (KASC18), consisting of 24 student members from undergraduate and graduate universities in both the United States and South Korea.

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

 
 

Remembering The Korean War

Friday, July 25, 2025 | 12:30 PM (EDT)


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Dr. Michael J. Devine offers the unique perspective of a scholar with half a century of close ties to Korea and the Korean American community, as well as practical experience in the management of historical institutions. Devine is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously, he was the director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, a professor of history and the director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. He was a Peace Corps volunteer to Korea and a two-time senior Fulbright lecturer at Korean universities. He received his MA and PhD in American History from Ohio State University. 

 

 

Jack Foley Chris Stockel

Mr. Jack Foley 

Following Jack’s graduation from high school in March 1951 at the age of 17, he proudly enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Jack completed recruit training at Parris Island before being transferred to Camp Pendleton in California for advanced infantry instruction. The training included rigorous Mountain Warfare exercises in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in preparation for deployment to Korea.
Upon his return home in late November 1952, he was promoted to the rank of Marine Sergeant in the USMC and assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp LeJeune, NC serving with the Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment.  
In May 1953, Jack was reassigned to Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA where he served as a Weapons instructor at the Officer Candidate School.  Following this assignment, he returned to Camp LeJuene where he completed his service and was honorably discharged.
After Jack’s honorable discharge from active duty in 1955, he was accepted into the New York City Police Department where he began his career in law enforcement. Concurrently, he rejoined the Marine Corps as a reservist, ultimately serving a total of 25 years and retiring with the rank of Master Sergeant.  During that time, he participated in specialized training programs including Desert Warfare training in the Mojave Desert, Jungle Warfare School in Panama, and Cold Weather training in Norway. 
 
In 1990, Jack continued his commitment to public service by joining the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Myers, Florida. He served proudly as a Deputy Sheriff and later retired with the rank of Police Sergeant.

 

 

Choong-geon Lee is Consul, Head of Political Affairs Section at the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York. Since he joined the foreign service in early 2000s, he has been around various posts in Korea and overseas, including Europe and the Middle East. In New York, he is working to promote people-to-people ties between the two countries.

 

 

 

Brigadier General (Ret.) Chris Stockel currently serves as the vice president of the Civil Affairs Association, senior U.S. civil military operations (CMO) advisor to the Korea Battle Simulation Center (KBSC), and the Korea Defense Veterans Association New York City Metro Chapter president. He commanded infantry, special forces, and civil affairs units, culminating at the one-star level as commanding general (CG) of the 351st Civil Affairs Command (CACOM) in Mountain View, CA and as the acting Combined Forces Command (CFC) C9 (civil affairs), Korea. 

As CG of the 351st, he was responsible for nearly all civil affairs operations in the INDO-PACIFIC. Previous to this, he was deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) and chief of staff (COS) of the 352nd CACOM. Before this, he was the commander civil military operations center (CMOC) and deputy COS strategic effects Operational Command Post (OCP)Third Army/ARCENT, Kuwait. He deployed twice to Iraq – once as a CA officer and later as the PAO for CJSOTF-AP. 

Other assignments included interagency duty with State counter- terrorism at Main State in the CT bureau, formerly S/CT, a joint assignment with USSOCOM, and Special Operations USEUCOM (SOCEUR). His training assignments, tours, and deployment postings included numerous European, Asian, Central American, Caribbean, East African, and Middle Eastern countries (including Egypt, Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon, and Kuwait). He spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations focused on China, at AUSA LANPAC in Hawaii on HADR, and testified about Iraq before Congress to the House committee on State and Foreign Operations.

Stockel earned a BA in Mathematics/Computer Science with a minor in German from Trenton State College including a year abroad at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a Master’s Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He is a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations. While in uniform he held DoD language ratings in German, Arabic, and Spanish. He is ranger and special forces qualified. His numerous awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, German Parachute Badge, Latvian Special Forces Parachute Badge, Indonesian Parachute Badge, Cote d’Ivoire Parachute Badge.

 

Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea

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What are the motivations and geopolitical significance of the ongoing partnership between the governments of North Korea and Iran? Join us for a program with Professor and Author Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., who discusses his new book co-authored with Professor Anthony N. Celso. During the program, Bechtol explains the ideological, financial, and environmental forces contributing to the partnership, the roles of Russia and China, the two regimes’ military capabilities, proliferation activities to terrorist organizations, and the partnership’s role in destabilizing the rules-based order. The book is available for purchase online here. A limited number of hardcover editions will be available for cash sale at a discounted rate of $20 at the event. This program is moderated by 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.
 
 

Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 | 12 PM (EDT)


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Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. (Ph.D. Union Institute), is an award winning professor of political science at Angelo State University and a retired Marine. He was formerly on the faculty at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College (2005–2010) and the Air Command and Staff College (2003–2005). Dr. Bechtol served as an adjunct visiting professor at the Korea University Graduate School of International Studies (2006–2007). He was an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1997 until 2003, eventually serving as the senior analyst for Northeast Asia in the Intelligence Directorate (J2) on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He formerly sat on the editorial review board of the East Asian Review from 2005 to 2009 and served as editor of the Defense Intelligence Journal from 2004 to 2005. He is currently on the editorial advisory board of the Korea Observer (2011–present), the editorial board of the International Journal of Security Studies, and is on the scientific board of Global Humanities (2014-present). He is the current Chairman of the Board of the International Council on Korean Studies. He is the co-author of the recent book (with Anthony N. Celso) Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership between Iran and North Korea (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2025), and the author of North Korean Military Proliferation to the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability (University Press of Kentucky: 2018), North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014), The Last Days of Kim Jong-Il: The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era (University of Nebraska Press: 2013), Defiant Failed State: The North Korean Threat to International Security (Potomac Books: 2010), and Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea (Potomac Books: 2007), and he is the editor of Confronting Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula (Marine Corps University Press: 2011) and The Quest for a Unified Korea: Strategies for the Cultural and Interagency Process (Marine Corps University Foundation: 2007). He is also the author of more than forty articles in peer-reviewed journals.  A widely sought after expert on North Korean international security issues, Dr. Bechtol has been called on to present commentary to the BBC, CNN, CBC, FOX News, Radio New Zealand, syndicated nationwide radio shows such as POTUS politics on SIRIUS/XM, the John Batchelor show, and several interviews on National Public Radio (to name a few).

 

South Korea’s New President and Prospects for U.S.-Korea Relations: A View From Former Ambassadors

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Former U.S. ambassadors to South Korea and members of the board at The Korea Society were featured in a prominent discussion about South Korea’s newly elected president Lee Jae-myung for the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). Ambassadors Philip Goldberg (2022–2025), Harry Harris (2018–2021), and Board Chair Kathleen Stephens (2008–2011) analyzed the outcome of the election amidst deep political polarization and implications for the future of the U.S.-Korea alliance.

 

Unpacking South Korea’s Snap Presidential Election

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Join us for a rapid reaction analysis of South Korea’s 2025 Presidential election. This snap election was triggered by the impeachment of South Korea’s 13th democratically elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol, after he declared martial law last December. This conversation unpacks the issues, the candidates, the voters, and the results, seeking to understand the domestic political undercurrents and consequences of a 60 day race occurring at a pivotal moment for Korea and U.S.-Korea relations. It features Dr. Aram Hur, the Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and Timothy W. Martin, the Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Seoul, in conversation with Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado and policy program officer Chelsie Alexandre.

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

 

Unpacking South Korea’s Snap Presidential Election

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 8 AM (EDT)


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Aram Hur is the Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her research focuses on nationalism and democracy, with special attention to issues of identity, integration, and democratic support in East Asia. Professor Hur is the author of Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Robert A. Dahl Award for best book on democracy by an untenured scholar from the American Political Science Association. Her research appears in leading disciplinary journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Comparative Political Studies and is widely cited in domestic and international media. She was selected as the 2021 Sherman Emerging Scholar by The Korea Society, a 2018-19 CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar, and is the recipient of the 2023 Gold Chalk Award for Teaching from the University of Missouri. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. with honors from Stanford University.
 
 

Timothy W. Martin is the Korea bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Seoul, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of North and South Korea.He previously wrote about Samsung from Seoul, but in prior stints at the Journal’s New York, Atlanta and Chicago offices, he covered Wall Street’s biggest buyers, painkiller addiction, airlines and food.

In Memoriam, Congressman Charles B. Rangel

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In Memoriam, Congressman Charles B. Rangel

In Memoriam, Congressman Charles B. Rangel

 
The Korea Society fondly remembers our friend, Former United States Congressman Charles B. Rangel, who passed away on Memorial Day at the age of 94. 
 
For his full obituary, please go here. An excerpt reads:
 
“Born and raised in Harlem, he was first elected to Congress in 1970, after serving in the New York State Assembly and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Congressman Rangel retired from the United States Congress in 2017. He was a veteran of the Korean War, where he earned the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with Valor.” 
 

In 2020, Congressman Charles B. Rangel received The Korea Society’s highest honor, the Van Fleet Award, alongside Korean War Veterans Association Area Commander Salvatore Scarlato on behalf of American veterans who served during the Korean War. 

Congressman Rangel said: “Thank you for giving me this award on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people who made the ultimate sacrifice. When I left Korea, I had hoped in my heart that I never would return, but I did return. To my miraculous amazement, I saw out of the smothering ashes and the poverty, despair, and hopelessness, a great nation rise that is not only a friend of America and an exciting trading partner, but an anchor in that part of the world for democracy. On behalf of all of us who participated, for those of us who are not here and for those families who still have the haunting memories of their loved ones, let me thank you for what you’re doing to make sure that these efforts were not in vain.” To watch his full acceptance speech, please go here. 

 

Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy

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Join us for a discussion with Dr. Joan E. Cho, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University on her 2024 book Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy, which explores the nonlinear nature of South Korea’s democratization. Using oral interviews, original protest datasets, and publications by student and labor activists, Cho illustrates how modernization structures such as industrial complexes and tertiary education initially bolstered authoritarian regimes before facilitating protests by various social movement groups, which ultimately succeeded in ushering in the country’s democratization. During the discussion, Cho also describes how this historical legacy continues to impact Korean politics, including the generational divide and the recent Martial Law and impeachment episodes. This program is moderated by 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.

 

This program is co-hosted by The Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

 

Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy

Friday, May 16, 2025 | 12 PM (EDT)


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Dr. Joan Cho’s primary research and teaching focuses are authoritarianism, democracy, and social movements in Korea and East Asia. She is the author of Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy (University of Michigan Press, 2024). Her research has been published in Electoral Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of East Asian Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society. Dr. Cho is an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) in the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Associate-in-Research of the Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University. She serves on the APSA Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession (2024-2027). Previously, Cho was Vice President of the Association of Korean Political Studies (2022-2024), faculty co-convener of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (2022-2024), and a 2018-2019 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar. She holds Ph.D. and A.M. degrees in Political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard University and B.A. (cum laude with honors) in Political Science from the University of Rochester.