Rapid Reaction Podcast Recording Session on Korea’s Legislative Elections: The Day After

Details: Thursday, April 12 , 2012 | 8:00 AM

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Event Link: Gi-Wook Shin is the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies; the founding director of the Korean Studies Program; a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and a professor of sociology, all at Stanford University. As a historical-comparative and political sociologist, his research has concentrated on areas of social movements, nationalism, development, and international relations. Shin is the author/editor of numerous books and articles. His books include Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security (2011); U.S.-DPRK Educational Exchanges: Assessment and Future Strategy (2011); History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories (2011); South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society (2011); One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era (2010); First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of the Last Cold War Frontier (2009); Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia (2007); Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia (2006); Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy (2006); North Korea: 2005 and Beyond (2006); Contentious Kwangju (2004); Colonial Modernity in Korea (1999); and Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea (1996).   Charles K. Armstrong (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University . A specialist in the modern history of Korea and East Asia, Professor Armstrong has published several books on contemporary Korea, including The Koreas (Routledge, 2007), The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950(Cornell, 2003), Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), and Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, second edition 2006), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His next book is Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1990 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2013. He is also writing the Modern East Asia volume for the Wiley-Blackwell series Concise History of the Modern World, to be published in 2013 as well.
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Hotly contested and viewed by many as a bellwether for the December presidential election in Korea, the April 11 parliamentary election pits the conservative, incumbent Saenuri Party, led by Park Geun-hye against the liberal Democratic United Party, under Han Myeong-sook. The conservative Liberty Forward Party (Sim Dae-pyung) and left-progressive United Progressive Party (Rhyu Si-min, Lee Jung-hee and Sim Sang-jeong), as well as center-right K Party and center-left New Progressives, also weigh into the mix. Though the liberals have formed a coalition, the conservatives appear more fragmented, with Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak loyalists seemingly at odds. Stanford University Professor and Director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Gi-wook Shin and Columbia University Professor and Director of the Center for Korean Research Charles Armstrong lead an intimate conversation on the results the day-after, their implications in the near-term, and their impact on the upcoming presidential elections. This is a special rapid reaction podcast recording session for regular policy attendees at The Korea Society.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Executive Policy Discussion
Rapid Reaction Podcast Recording Session on
Korea’s Legislative Elections: The Day After

with

Gi-Wook Shin

and

Charles K. Armstrong