Call for Applications: The application for the ninth annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Award will open in March 2025. Established in 2017 through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sherman and family, the Award encourages and contributes to the advancement of thought leadership for a new generation of Korea scholars and professionals. Each year The Korea Society recognizes an emerging expert and provides the awardee with… Read More

Join us to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the South Korea-US Alliance at this conference held at the Syngman Rhee Lecture Hall (Bowl 16) in Robertson Hall at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs.The proceedings include a keynote address, a panel on security and diplomacy, a lunch buffet for registered attendants, and a panel exploring the role of Korean-Americans in the Dynamic Korea-US relationship. Join us to… Read More

Han Kang’s Booker Prize-winning 2016 novel The Vegetarian solidified her place as a master of the surreal, and is a powerful reminder that what makes surrealist narratives so haunting is the way they illuminate concerns that are real and urgent. Han, one of South Korea’s leading literary voices, joins the Pen America's World Voices Festival for the North American launch of her new novel, Greek Lessons. Following a female protagonist… Read More

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Siegfried Hecker, who discusses “his on-the-ground experience at the North's nuclear center at Yongbyon,” unpacking the ramifications of North Korea’s technical developments in the context of fateful foreign policy decisions by Washington, Seoul, and Pyongyang. Dr. Hecker describes how “successive U.S. administrations have been unable to prevent the North, with the weakest of hands, from becoming one of only three countries in… Read More