Korea’s Regional Relations and Global Korea

  • Politics, Policy, and PyeongChang 2018

    Wednesday, February 7, 2018 | 9:00 AM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-02-07_PoliticsPolicyAndPyeongchang2018.mp3
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    These first-Wednesday monthly roundtables draw members and supporters from policy, corporate, media, academe, and the United Nations to discuss and debate Korea’s leadership, regional relations or the North Korea challenge. The 2018 kickoff addresses issues of politics and policy in the lead-up to the Winter Games and takes place two days prior to the Opening Ceremonies. Korea Society senior director and Columbia adjunct professor Stephen Noerper addresses the lead-up to the Winter Games with a call-in from the... Read More

  • South Korea at the Crossroads

    Thursday, February 1, 2018 | 6:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-02-01_SouthKoreaAtACrossroadsWithScottSnyder.mp3
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    • Youtube Video:
      Against the backdrop of China’s mounting influence and North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder examines the trajectory of fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and offers predictions—and a prescription—for the future. Pairing a historical perspective with a shrewd understanding of today’s political landscape, Scott Snyder... Read More

  • PyeongChang 2018 Launch featuring Olympic Committee President Lee Hee-beom

    Tuesday, November 14, 2017 | 11:00 AM
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    Have Olympic fever? You will. Curious about the first of the three successive Olympics Games in Northeast Asia beginning in 2018? Amazed by photos of PyeongChang ready to host the world? The Hon. Lee Hee-beom, President and CEO of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, speaks to Korea Society members, media and other dignitaries in advance of the XXIII Winter Games. The day after a United Nations resolution supporting the Games, President Lee shares insights into the path toward... Read More

  • Korea-Russia-China Relations: New Realities for the Korean Peninsula

    Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2017-11-08_Korea-Russia-China-Relations-NewRealitiesForTheKoreanPeninsula.mp3
    • Podcast URL: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/korea-russia-china-relations-new-realities-for-korean/id210903888?i=1000394584603&mt=2
    Will Russia play a constructive role in helping stem tensions around the Korean Peninsula? Or will it play the role of spoiler given a decline in US-Russia relations? How do the approaches of Moscow toward Pyongyang and Seoul square with those of Beijing? How is South Korea responding? Noted Russian professor Anna Kireeva speaks to dynamics in Korea’s relations with Russia and China, as well as Russia’s Asia pivot, as part of the Society’s ongoing series on Korea’s regional relations in this special luncheon... Read More

  • Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture

    Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | 4:00 PM
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    The Korea Society celebrates sixty years since its founding with a public and press presentation on September 27 by Katrin Katz of Northwestern University. Ms. Katz served on the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration. The Korea Society selected Ms. Katz, whose dissertation addresses maritime conflict in Northeast Asia and the dynamics of nationalism in Korea, as the recipient of the Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award, which encourages new American thought leadership... Read More

  • Korea-China Relations: Part II

    Thursday, May 11, 2017 | 12:30 PM
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    Korea Society President Thomas Byrne convenes a discussion on Korea-China Relations, with former Newsweek Beijing Correspondent Isaac Stone Fish and Stimson Center Senior Associate Yun Sun, formerly with the International Crisis Group's office in Beijing. This session follows on the Society's March Korea-China session with Harvard's John Park and focuses on the twists and turns of South Korea's economic and political relations with China, and examines the complexity of China's support for UN Security Council sanctions... Read More

  • Special Taping: Rapid Reaction on the Korean Presidential Elections

    Wednesday, May 10, 2017 | 12:30 PM
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    Join Korea Society senior director and Columbia University adjunct professor Stephen Noerper in conversation with Tong Yang, Korea Foundation and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies Gi-Wook Shin. Professor Shin appears remotely from Stanford University. This rapid reaction program examines the winner and losers in the election, priorities and next steps for the new Korean President, and implications for United States policy given tensions around the Korean Peninsula. Special Taping:Rapid Reaction... Read More

  • New Thinking on Korea's Aging, Shrinking Society with Professor Youngtae Cho

    Saturday, June 10, 2006 | 7:00 PM
    Join us for a virtual program exploring new thinking on Korea’s aging, shrinking society with Dr. Youngtae Cho, Director of the Population Policy Research Center and professor of demography at the School of Public Health at Seoul National University (SNU). Although South Korea’s total fertility rate rebounded slightly to reach 0.8 babies per woman, it remains the lowest in the world and well below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to maintain the population level. Consequently, Korea’s population structure is... Read More

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