Past Events

Join The Korea Society and Former Members of Congress (FMC) & the Congressional Study Groups for a dialogue with a bipartisan pair of Former Members

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Join us for a conversation with Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon moderated by The Korea Society President & CEO Tom Byrne. This interview is reintroduced under

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South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup gives his New Year greetings. Marking the year 2023 as the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-Korea Alliance, Defense Minister

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Join us for a discussion on the causes and consequences of South Korea’s shrinking birth rate, including its impact on social and civic relations, the

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Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by culture writer and screenwriter Karen Han is the first definitive critical and visual survey of the Academy Award–winning South

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Annual Membership Party 2023

Signature Events

Let’s ring in the year 2023 with us! The Korea Society is pleased to invite you to our members-only Annual Membership Appreciation Party on Thursday,

Han!

Arts & Culture

“[Han] is not an easy word to understand. It has generally been understood as a sort of resentment. But I think it means both sadness

Join this discussion with Dr. Henry W. Brands, Professor and Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, about

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University, on his new book, Agents of Subversion: The Fate

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Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times: In Seongmin Ahn’s paintings, it is not our past we are looking at but our possible future. – John

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