The Annual Gala Dinner is the Korea Society’s premier event of the year, celebrating the U.S-Korea relationship as well as honoring those who work towards maintaining this special alliance. This year, in light of health and safety concerns regarding COVID-19, we have decided to “recreate” our Annual Gala as a virtually-celebrated event on Wednesday, October 7, with the theme “Enduring Alliance, Expanding Horizons”. KEYNOTE ADDRESS + - Transcript Click to… Read More

Daniel Russel, Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Susan Thornton, Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale University, join Senior Director Stephen Noerper for a discussion on the upcoming US Presidential election, with an eye to US policy implications for Korea and Northeast Asia. This all-star… Read More

Photo credit: Ruth Hogben for ABT Listen to our conversation with Hee Seo, the first Asian ballerina to be named principal dancer - ballet's highest title - at the American Ballet Theatre, as she discusses her illustrious career and thoughts on the future of performing art. Her dancing and fluid line exude an unhurried purity that sums up all that is lovely about ballet. - The New York Times Sign… Read More

Drawing by Karl Stevens for the New York Review of Books What if the finest, funniest, craziest, sanest, most cheerfully depressing Korean-American novel was also one of the first? - Ed Park Join Alexander Chee and Ed Park in their conversation on Younghill Kang, the first Korean-American novelist and a pioneer of Asian American literature. As they discuss the life and career of Kang and his novel East Goes West,… Read More