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[GWIKS Special Event] Minhwa, Marvelous Korean Folk Paintings

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GWIKS Special Event

Minhwa, Marvelous Korean Folk Paintings

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

Hybrid Event

Elliott School for International Affairs

Room 505, 1957 E ST NW, Washington DC

Virtual via Zoom

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This lecture sheds light on some of the unique charms of Minhwa (Korean folk painting) from a modern perspective. Unconventional and free-spirited decorative art popular in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), Minhwa has recently caught on with modern Korean people. Amid the ongoing Korean wave or Hallyu, interest in Minhwa has also been growing outside of Korea and is becoming a major trend in contemporary Korean art. Minhwa could be said to be the most representative form of purely Korean art. A native art that stems from nature, Minhwa reflects the emotions, thoughts, and ways of life of the Korean people. It embodies the traditional style of free expression that has been going on for a long time in Korea. Minhwa consists of paintings driven by a rich popular imagination. As Koreans have dreamed of an equal world, many Minhwa images display a sense of resistance against a hierarchical society and rigidity. Minhwa paintings are full of symbols of happiness. Whereas most traditional Korean court paintings and literati paintings of the Joseon Dynasty represent Confucian ethics and ideologies, Minhwa paintings express practical and instinctive desires such as joy, wealth, success, and longevity. They are a spontaneous expression of the Korean sensibility.

Speaker

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Byungmo Chung is an art historian specializing in Korean folk and genre paintings. He previously served as a Professor at Gyeongju University, a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, and as the President of the Association of Korean Folk Painting. He is the Head Director of The School of Minhwa. Noteworthy among his accomplishments is his organization of the Joseon Dynasty Chaekgeori exhibitions in 2016, hosted at prestigious institutions such as the Charles B. Wang Center in New York, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. From 2022 to 2023. He also curated Chaekgeori exhibitions in Europe, showcasing works by contemporary folk artists at esteemed venues, including the Nantes Korean Spring Festival in France, the Korean Cultural Center in France, the Korean Cultural Center in Spain, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. Chung has authored numerous articles and books on Korean folk and genre paintings, notably including “Chaesaekhwa: Polychrome Paintings of Korea.”

Moderator

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Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor Emeritus of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs, and Senior Advisor to the Institute for Korean Studies at George Washington University. She taught at GW for 32 years and served as Chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department for the last 12 years of her tenure before retiring in 2015. She has published 13 books and numerous articles on Korean language/linguistics and Korean culture, history, and literature. She was President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (1990-1992) and Editor-in-Chief of its journal, Korean Linguistics (2002-14). Organizer of major cultural and academic events, she is the recipient of prestigious grants and prizes including three Fulbright awards, the Republic of Korea Order of Cultural Merit, and the Samsung Bichumi (Women of the Year) Award in Korea. She currently serves as President of the Korean Literary Society of Washington.

05/22/23 Book Launch Event: South Korea’s Survival Strategy – Nakyon Lee’s Initiative

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Book Launch Event​

South Korea’s Survival Strategy – Nakyon Lee’s Initiative

Monday, May 22, 2023

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

In-Person Event

George Washington University, Elliott School for International Affairs 1957 E ST NW, Washington DC
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602

**Consecutive interpretation from Korean to English will be provided during the Q&A session**

** 발표는 한국어로 진행되며, 순차 통역(한국어/영어)이 제공됩니다. **

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies invites you to a conversation with GWIKS Visiting Scholar Nakyon Lee, the former Prime Minister of South Korea. Based on his research during his term at GWIKS (June 2022-June 2023), he recently published a book in Korean entitled South Korea’s Survival Strategy – Nakyon Lee’s Initiative [Daehaminguk Saengjon Jeonryak – Lee Nakyon ui Gusang] (Book 21, 2023). At the book event, Prime Minister Lee would like to share his concerns about the current global situation and to discuss ongoing issues in international affairs. This book event will continue the discussions based on Mr. Lee’s lecture hosted by GWIKS in February. The book has already attracted great interest in South Korea for its analysis of survival strategies as the country faces military tensions on the Korean peninsula, U.S.-China competition, the Ukraine war, and global instability. Before returning home in late June, he will give lectures at two universities in Germany. We hope many of you can join us!

 

조지워싱턴대학 한국학연구소(GWIKS) 방문연구원 이낙연 전 대한민국 국무총리와 함께 북 토크를 겸한 귀국 간담회에 여러분을 초대합니다. 이 전 총리는 GWIKS에서의 연구를 토대로 한글책 ‘대한민국 생존전략-이낙연의 구상’ (21세기 북스)을 출간했습니다. 이 책은 한반도의 군사적 긴장과  미중 경쟁, 우크라이나 전쟁 등 세계정세의 불안한 전개에 직면한 대한민국의 선택을 제안해 한국에서 큰 주목을 받고 있습니다. 이 전 총리의 귀국을 앞두고 관심 있는 분들과 고민과 지혜를 나누고자 합니다. 지난해 6월부터 GW의 방문연구원으로 활동한 이 전 총리는 미국을 떠나 독일의 2개 대학에서 강연한 뒤 6월 하순에 귀국할 예정입니다. 관심 있는 분들의 많은 참여를 바랍니다.

Speaker

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NAKYON LEE is a former prime minister of the Republic of Korea, who served under the Moon Jae-in administration. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in law and became a journalist at Dong-a Ilbo. After 21 years as a journalist, he entered politics and served five terms as a member of the National Assembly. During hisfourth term in 2014, he became the governor of Jeollanam-do Province until President Moon nominated Lee as his first prime minister in 2017. He was also elected as the chairperson of the Democratic Party of Korea in 2020. During his years in public affairs, he has focused on both domestic and international affairs of South Korea. As prime minister, he was responsible for overall domestic issues, including the safety of the citizens and society. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee at the National Assembly, in which he worked towards a peaceful inter-Korean relationship. He currently serves as a Visiting Scholar at the GW Institute for Korean Studies, where his research focuses on the peacebuilding process on the Korean peninsula.

Introductory Remarks

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ALYSSA AYRES is Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Ayres is a foreign policy practitioner and award-winning author with senior experience in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors. From 2013 to 2021, she was senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she remains an adjunct senior fellow. Her work focuses primarily on India’s role in the world and on U.S. relations with South Asia in the larger Indo-Pacific. Her book about India’s rise on the world stage, Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World, was published in 2018. Ayres is also interested in the emergence of subnational engagement in foreign policy, particularly the growth of international city networks, and her current book project (working title, Bright Lights, Biggest Cities: The Urban Challenge to India’s Future, under contract with Oxford University Press) examines India’s urban transformation and its international implications. From 2010 to 2013, Ayres served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia. She received an AB from Harvard College and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Moderator

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MARK W. LIPPERT has a distinguished career in the United States government that spanned approximately two decades and included series of senior-level positions across multiple agencies. From 2014-2017, he served as the United States ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Republic of Korea, based in Seoul. He previously held positions in the Department of Defense, including as chief of staff to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (2013-2014) and as assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (2012-2013), the top official in the Pentagon for all Asia issues. Lippert also worked in the White House as chief of staff to the National Security Council in 2009. Lippert served in the uniformed military. An intelligence officer in the United States Navy, he mobilized to active duty from 2009 to 2011 for service with Naval Special Warfare (SEALs) Development Group that included deployments to Afghanistan and other regions. From 2007 to 2008, he deployed as an intelligence officer with Seal Team One to Anbar Province, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science and holds an M.A. in international policy studies from the same institution. He speaks Korean and also studied Mandarin Chinese at Beijing University.

05/04/2023 | North Korea Economic Forum: Virtual Panel Discussion

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North Korea Economic Forum

Virtual Panel Discussion

“Reviewing North Korea’s Progress on Reforms in Agriculture and Finance”

Thursday, May 4, 2023

09:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Virtual via Zoom

Program & Profiles

North Korea remains a black box to outside watchers who strive to understand the current status of the country’s economy. Although Pyongyang’s extremely strict COVID policies, including the closure of its borders, are largely still in place, the economy seems to be muddling through without any news about a full-scale disaster. However, the ruling Workers’ Party convened a plenary meeting dedicated to the “urgent task of improving the agricultural sector” last February. In following up on the decisions made at the plenary meeting, the government agencies were also urged to strengthen the country’s financial foundation and financial discipline to support the comprehensive development of their socialist construction. We invite you to join the GW Institute for Korean Studies and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University for an online discussion on North Korea’s progress on reforms in agriculture and finance.

Event Agenda

05/02/2023 | Korea Policy Forum, Assessing the Biden-Yoon Summit: 70-Year Alliance and New Thinking

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Korea Policy Forum

Assessing the Biden-Yoon Summit:

70-Year Alliance and New Thinking

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

09:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

10:00 PM – 11:30 PM KST

Virtual via Zoom

Program & Profiles

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will have their meeting at the White House on April 26. While commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the US-ROK alliance this year, the two leaders will explore a path to strengthen and expand the decades-old alliance based on new thinking on the strategic environment that the allies face. Three leading experts from the U.S. and South Korea, respectively, will be joining us to discuss their analyses of the results of the summit meeting. The GW Institute for Korean Studies, the East Asia National Resource Center, and the U.S-China Policy Institute at Ajou University invite you to join us for an engaging discussion on this important topic.

Event Agenda

04/22/23 | Rising Tides with the GW Strategic Crisis Simulations

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“Rising Tides with the GW Strategic Crisis Simulations”

Saturday, April 22, 2023

11:00 A.M – 05:30 P.M. EST

In-Person Event

Norma Lee and Morton Funger Hall, 2201 G St NW, Washington, DC 20052

About the Event

GWIKS is pleased to share that we are co-sponsoring a special simulation with GW Strategic Crisis Simulations. SCS is excited to announce their most anticipated simulation of the year for the ninth year in a row: “Rising Tides,” their kinetic U.S.-China-Taiwan simulation.

This year’s Rising Tides will focus on Taiwan and the implications of U.S.-China strategic competition in the region. This iteration expands to include regional alliances, including India, Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Korea.

This will be SCS’s largest “Rising Tides” yet, and we are very excited to see you all there. 

04/25/23 | Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Masato Hasegawa

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“Politics of Geography and Transport in the Qing-Chosŏn Borderland”

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

09:00 A.M – 10:30 A.M. EST

Zoom Event

Event Program (PDF)

About the Event

This presentation traces the late Chosŏn discourse on roads and carts and examines the interplay between transport, the environment, and historical memory. Drawing on writings of Chosŏn scholars on the use of roads and carts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Dr. Hasegawa will discuss the manner in which scholars formulated policy proposals concerning infrastructure and transport in late Chosŏn Korea. Among the scholars who put forward such proposals, he will pay particular attention to Kim Yuk (1580-1658) and Pak Chega (1750-1805), both of whom travelled through the Sino-Korean borderland and personally observed the terrain of Korea’s northwest and Manchuria. They strongly advocated for adopting Chinese carts as a means of transporting loads inside Korea and sharply criticized those at the Chosŏn court who asserted that wheeled vehicles were ill-suited to Korea’s mountainous terrain. By analyzing writings of Chosŏn scholars such as Kim Yuk and Pak Chega, this presentation will not only highlight the roles of the state that they saw in matters of infrastructure and transport. It will also assess the significance of historical memory, both in their formulation of proposals relating to infrastructure and transport and in the views of their opponents.

Speaker

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Masato Hasegawa is an Assistant Professor of History at National Taiwan University, where he teaches courses in Korean, East Asian, and environmental history. He specializes in the history of technology and the environment in early modern East Asia, and his current research focuses on the intersections of bureaucratic knowledge, war mobilization, and ecology in the Sino-Korean borderland from the 16th to the 18th century.

Moderator

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Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She is the Founding Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation  by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled  Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

04/19/23 | Soh Jaipil Lecture Series with Sandra Park

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Anointed Citizenship: Christianity and Border Crossers in Wartime South Korea

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

Hybrid Event

In Person, Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Virtual via Zoom

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Event Description

Who can become a good citizen? Why and how does religion determine the answer? These questions emerged with violent urgency in wartime South Korea at the height of American military and moral power on the peninsula. During the Korean War (1950–53), the moral politics of Christianity scripted an enduring pledge of allegiance for North Korean border crossers during their flight or defection to US-led “Free” South Korea. In this lecture, Park presents two wartime narratives of Christian border crossing from her book project: deliverance (refugees) and conversion (prisoners of war). She pivots from churches and revival tents to roadblocks and barbed wire guarded by the US military to show the intersection of war, religion, and empire, as the global Cold War engendered violent conditions of inclusion and exclusion across East Asia and beyond. By reexamining the “success” of Christianity in (South) Korea as a wartime story, Park’s research contributes to larger discussions of the role religion plays in the formation of modern nation-states and empires.

Speaker

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Sandra Park is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS). She is a historian of modern Korea, the US empire, and the global Cold War. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Anointed Citizenship: The Politics of Christian Border Crossing in Cold War Korea. Drawing on extensive archival research across government, military, and missionary archives, her book project examines the coherence of Christian moral politics as a pledge of allegiance for North Korean border crossers petitioning for citizenship in “Free” South Korea under the US military empire. Her project traces the cross-border movements of Christians and transpacific circulations of Christian political claims during and immediately after the Korean War, contributing to existing literatures on North Korean migrants and citizenship, religion and the global Cold War, and US-Korean relations in the twentieth century.

Moderator

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Gregg A. Brazinsky is Professor of History and International Affairs and Deputy Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies. His research seeks to understand the diverse and multi-faceted interactions among East Asian states and between Asia and the United States. He is the author of Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He served as Interim Director of the GW Institute for Korean Studies during the Spring 2017 semester.

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03/27/23 | Soh Jaipil Lecture Series with Se-Mi Oh

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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism

Monday, March 27, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

Hybrid Event

In Person, George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons, Room 602

And Virtual via Zoom

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Event Description

Presenting from her forthcoming book, City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism, Dr. Oh will discuss how to read space and spatial practices as a writing of history. Focusing on Seoul of the 1920s under Japanese colonialism, this talk will demonstrate how the urban space became a site of discursive production for Japanese colonialism and how architecture brought about a new mode of visual experience through which a new notion of history and time was articulated. Because monumental architecture was built on top of the existing matrix of the former capital and Seoul was transformed into a living depository of heterogeneous discursive sediments, this presentation will excavate these sediments as a method of history writing and explore the material and immaterial layers of urbanity to reveal how colonial subjects engaged with, and frequently undermined, the visual regime of Japanese colonialism.

Speaker

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Se-Mi Oh is Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the architectural and urban practices of Seoul and explores the relationship between space and history writing. She is the author of City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), which examines the relationship between language, text, and media to trace the discursive formation of modernity and colonialism in the urban space of Seoul in the 1920s.

Moderator

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Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. She currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and the Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at GW. She also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Studies. She is a specialist in gender, law, and emotions in Korean history. Her broader research interests include gender and sexuality, crime and justice, forensic medicine, literary representations of the law, history of emotions, vernacular, and gender writing. She is the author of The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2017 James Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. She is also the co-editor of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled Sexual Desire, Crime, and Gendered Subjects: A History of Adultery Law in Korea. She received her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.

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03/08/2023 | Korea Policy Forum, South Korea’s Nuclear Armament Debate

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Korea Policy Forum

South Korea’s Nuclear Armament Debate

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

Hybrid Event

Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (Room 505)

1957 E Street Northwest Room 505 Washington, DC 20052

Virtual via Zoom

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North Korea’s recent advanced missile tests and hostile statements that include threats of preemptive nuclear attacks against South Korea have fueled a debate among South Koreans about new military options to address the growing threat from the North. One noticeable development is that South Korea’s nuclear armament, a topic that used to be a taboo for decades, is increasingly drawing attention as an option that should be on the table. One could dismiss this as a tide of “nuclear populism” that could be subdued by reassuring and strengthening U.S. extended deterrence against the North Korean threat. However, it is also true that this traditionally unthinkable option is being seriously examined by more politicians and experts in South Korea than in the past. Two leading experts from the U.S. and South Korea, respectively, will be joining us to discuss their views of South Korea’s nuclear armament debate. The GW Institute for Korean Studies and the East Asia National Resource Center invite you to join us for an engaging discussion on this important topic.

Speakers

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Young-Jun Kim is a Professor of the National Security College at the Korea National Defense University (KNDU) and a visiting scholar of the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. He has served as a member of Central Committee of the Presidential Peaceful Unification Advisory Board, a member of National Security Advisory Board for the Republic of Korea President’s Office, a member of advisory board for the Department of Unification, the National Assembly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, the Joint Chief of Staff and the National Intelligence Service. His recent publications include Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: People’s Army and the Korean War (2017). He is a member of the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Commander’s Strategic Shaping Board (CSSB) and the former International Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth. He is a managing editor of journal “The Korean Journal of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Energy” sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General-Director for the Korea Nuclear Policy Society and Korea Defense Policy Association. As Korean security expert, he has appeared on the FOX TV News, CBS TV News, BBC TV News, the Wall Street Journal, the National Interest, WION News TV, Al Zazeera New TV, Kyodo Tongshin and other Korean and international media.

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Sang-Hyun Lee is the President of the Sejong Institute in Korea. He also serves as President of the Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS). He was a research fellow at the Korean Institute for International Studies (1987-88), the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (1988-90), and a policy advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Unification, and the Ministry of National Defense. He served as Director-General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from May 2011 to April 2013. He is a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament and the Korea-US Nuclear Policy Leadership Initiative (NPLI). He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for
Development and Security (ISDP) in Stockholm, Sweden and the Stimson Center in Washington DC. His main research interests include international politics and security, Korea-U.S. relations, inter-Korean relations, nuclear security and nonproliferation, and East Asian security issues. His recent publications include: Trump Administration’s Nuclear Policy: Implications for Global Nuclear Energy and North Korean Nuclear Issue (2019), Trump Administration’s National Security Policy and Its Implications for Global Order and Korean Peninsula (2018), Trump Administration and ROK-US Relations (2017, co-authored), and North Korea under Kim Jong-un: Evaluating Past Five Years (2017, co-authored). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.

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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on the Asia-Pacific region, his research interests range nuclear strategy, arms control, missile defense, nonproliferation, emerging technologies, and U.S. extended deterrence. He is the author of Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press, 2020). Panda was previously an adjunct senior fellow in the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and a member of the 2019 FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy. He has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva on nonproliferation and disarmament matters, and has testified on security topics before the U.S.Senate Armed Services Committee and the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Panda was a Korea Society Kim Koo Fellow, a German Marshall Fund Young Strategist, an International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue Young Leader, and a Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs New Leader. He has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in NorthKorea,U.S.-DPRK relations, the U.S.-ROK alliance and Northeast Asian regional security. She was named one of Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World” and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for her role in co- founding and managing the 38 North website, which provides policy and technical analysis on North Korea. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project; an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National Committee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean Americans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy journal for emerging scholars. From 2008- 2018, Ms. Town served as the Assistant Director of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS. She holds a BA in East Asian Studies and International Relations from Westmar University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Moderator

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Yonho Kim is an Associate Research Professor of Practice and the Associate Director of GW Institute for Korean Studies. He specializes in North Korea’s mobile telecommunications and U.S. policy towards North Korea. Kim is the author of North Korean Phone Money: Airtime Transfers as a Precursor to Mobile Payment System (2020), North Korea’s Mobile Telecommunications and Private Transportation Services in the Kim Jong-un Era (2019) and Cell Phones in North Korea: Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution? (2014). His research findings were covered by various media outlets, including Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Yonhap News, and Libération. Prior to joining GWIKS, he extensively interacted with the Washington policy circle on the Korean peninsula as Senior Researcher of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Senior Reporter for Voice of America’s Korean Service, and Assistant Director of the Atlantic Council’s Program on Korea in Transition. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University, and an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

03/09/2023 | GWIKS Special Talk Series, K-Culture Night: Exploring Korean Hip-Hop and its Influences

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GWIKS Special Talk Series

K-Culture Night: Exploring Korean Hip-Hop and its Influences

Thursday, March 9, 2023

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

In-Person Event

George Washington University, Elliott School for International Affairs 1957 E ST NW, Washington DC
Lindner Family Commons, Room 602

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) invites you to join us for a special K-Culture event on Korean Hip-Hop! While K-Pop is now known throughout the world, there is also a burgeoning hip-hop community in Korea which has gained popularity in recent years. For an introduction to Korean Hip Hop, GWIKS will be screening two parts of a documentary from Arirang TV: Korean Hip-Hop – Part 1. Rise of the Hip-Hop Scene (코리아 힙합 1부 – 힙합, 한국을 뒤흔들다) and Korean Hip Hop Part 2. A Way of Life (코리아 힙합 2부 – 힙합, 세상을 향한 긍정의 힘). The documentary is in Korean with English subtitles.

Our screening will be followed by a discussion led by Dr. Crystal S. Anderson from George Mason University on the influence of African-American Music on Korean Hip Hop. Dr. Anderson’s 2020 book, Soul in Seoul: African American Music and K-pop, explores the impact of African American popular music on contemporary Korean pop, R&B and hip-hop and the role of global fans as the music press. Dr. Anderson has written extensively on issues related to K-Pop and Afro-Asian cultural studies. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about Korean Hip Hop and how American artists have influenced Hip-Hop in Korea.

Dinner will be provided and the evening will end with a drawing for two free tickets to see the popular Korean hip hop group, EPIK High on March 13th at the Warner Theater in DC!

Event Schedule

6:00 – 6:15 p.m. Introduction

6:15 – 7:15 p.m. Film Screening

7:15 – 8:00 p.m. Discussion and Q&A

About the Film

[Part 1]: Hip-hop was an import into Korea’s music scene that caught the attention –and ears- of its Korean listeners. Learn about the evolution of hip-hop in Korea through one-on-one interviews with noted hip-hop journalist Kim Bong-hyeon and well-known Korean hip-hop artists.

Fans of Korean hip-hop will instantly recognize artists like first-generation artist MC Meta as well as high caliber rappers like San E, Huckleberry P and many more! Join Basick and Layone at the OUTLIVE Concert, and get a glimpse of performances on Korea’s biggest rap competition TV show.

[Part 2]: As Korean hip-hop continued to develop, the artists became acutely aware of the fine line walked between ‘disrespect’ and ‘respect.’ Diss battles began to steal the stage, but there was also a maturity and level of respect that artists maintained through it all.

Korean hip-hop grew into a way of life, impacting people of all ages and walks of life. We’ll introduce you to some college students with a love for rhyme, and bring you exclusive interviews with major artists like MC Meta, San E, Huck P, Ja Mezz and insights from hip-hop journalist Kim Bong-hyeon.

Speaker

Dr. Crystal S. Anderson is a dynamic scholar working in the fields of Transnational American Studies, Black Internationalism, Global Asias and Digital Humanities. Her first book, Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (2013), uses the films of Bruce Lee to interpret cross-cultural dynamics in post-1990 novels, films and anime. Her 2020 book, Soul in Seoul: African American Music and K-pop, explores the impact of African American popular music on contemporary Korean pop, R&B and hip-hop and the role of global fans as the music press. It was translated into Korean in 2022. She has also published book chapters on overlapping masculinities in Korean popular music and the impact of the Korean wave in the United States. She manages several digital humanities projects, including KPK: Kpop Kollective, the oldest and only public scholarship site for K-pop, and KPOPCULTURE, an open educational resource on K-pop music for educators. A veteran blogger on Asian popular culture, she is also a former associate chief editor for Hellokpop, an online entertainment site for Korean entertainment.

 

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