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10/14-10/15/2021 | The Third North Korea Economic Forum Annual Conference

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The Third North Korea Economic Forum Annual Conference

Thursday, October 14, 2021

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

AND

Friday, October 15, 2021

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

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As an isolated socialist country, North Korea has had to face a constant challenge of justifying its own vision of economic self-reliance and the dynamics of marketization. The North Korean people’s greater access to foreign media and domestic market information has required different versions of legitimization of mass mobilization. Drawing from a variety of academic disciplines and subject-matter specializations, this year’s North Korea Economic Forum Conference will examine the role that ideology has played in shaping and constraining economic policy and economic life in North Korea, both in the Kim Jong Un era and historically.

If you have a question for the speakers, please submit it when you complete the guest registration.

Registered guests will receive confirmation email with details for joining the Zoom event.

This event is on the record and open to the public.

Schedule

10/14, 9 AM EDT – 11:00 AM EDT  | Day One: Mass Mobilization, Socialist Commerce, and Marketization

10/15, 9 AM EDT – 11:30 AM EDT |  Day Two: Global Financial Crises, Economic Aid, and Foreign Media

For full agenda, see the event program.

Background on the North Korea Economic Forum

The North Korea Economic Forum (NKEF) is part of the policy program at the George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS). The Forum aims to promote the understanding of North Korean economic issues, distribute the well-balanced, deeply touched, and multi-dimensionally explored pictures of North Korean economy and to expand the network among the various North Korean economy watchers. The Forum is mostly a closed and off-the-record meeting where participants can freely and seriously discuss the critical issues. Mr. William Brown is currently the chair of the NKEF and is leading the meetings. It also organizes special conferences made public throughout the academic year. The Forum is made possible by a generous grant provided by the KDI School of Public Policy and Management.

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09/29/21 | Korea Policy Forum, U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Cooperation

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Korea Policy Forum Virtual Roundtable

U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and U.S.-ROK Cooperation After the Biden-Moon Summit

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

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In their first summit meeting held last May, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden rejuvenated the decades-long alliance by not only focusing on traditional bilateral topics but also addressing new regional and global issues in the context of the intensifying U.S.-China strategic rivalry—including climate change, supply chains, and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. The agreements made at the summit could have long-term ramifications for South Korea’s strategic positioning in Northeast Asia and the United States’ broader regional strategy. In particular, the allies will have to navigate changing dynamics in domestic politics leading up to and after the 2022 presidential election in South Korea and midterm elections in the United States. Please join the GW Institute for Korean Studies for an online discussion with experts who will be discussing views from the United States and South Korea on the presently evolving chapter in U.S.-ROK relations following the May summit.

This event is on the record and open to the public.

Speakers

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Hyo-young Lee is currently Assistant Professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), teaching International Trade & Diplomacy. Before joining the KNDA faculty in March 2017, she worked as a research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) Division of International Trade (2013-2016), during which she also worked as Assistant Secretary for Trade, Industry and Energy at the Presidential Office (2014-2015). Her research interest spans over various issues in international trade, with particular interest in trade rules on industrial subsidy policies, digital trade, and various issues that are linked with trade, such as trade and national security, trade and climate change. She has written on various subjects, with recent reports on: Evolution and Evaluation of International Rules on Digital Trade (2021), Current Trends and Prospects for Asia Regional Economic Integration: RCEP and CPTPP (2021), Concept of ‘Peace and Economic Development’ in Multilateral Institutions and Implications for Inter-Korean Cooperation (2020), Regulation of Subsidies and U.S.-China Strategic Competition (2020), Trade and Development: Way Forward for Economic and Trade Cooperation with Developing Countries (2019), and Rise of Regionalism and Tasks for South Korea’s Trade Diplomacy (2019). Dr. Lee obtained her Ph.D. in International Studies from Seoul National University, South Korea.

 

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Hyun-Wook Kim is currently a Professor and Director-General at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy. His research areas include the U.S.-ROK alliance, U.S-DPRK relations and Northeast Asian security. He was an advisory member for the National Security Council and the Ministry of Unification, and is now a standing member for the National Unification Advisory Council. He is also a senior advisor for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is also an honorary research fellow at the Korean Naval Academy. He was a visiting scholar at UC San Diego in 2014 and at George Washington University in 2020-21. He has earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Brown University, and worked at the University of Southern California as a postdoctoral fellow. He received his B.A. in political science from Yonsei University.

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Robert Sutter is Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University (2011-Present). He also served as Director of the School’s main undergraduate program involving over 2,000 students from 2013-2019. His earlier full-time position was Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University (2001-2011). Sutter’s government career (1968-2001) saw service as senior specialist and director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service, and other organizations within the Intelligence Community. A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Sutter has published 22 books (four with multiple editions), over 300 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent books are Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force, Fifth Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and US-China Relations, Fourth Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

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Stephen B. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for International Economic Policy. He is also a current global fellow at the Wilson Center. Professor Kaplan’s research and teaching interests focus on the frontiers of international and comparative political economy, where he specializes in the political economy of global finance and development, China’s foreign investment in developing countries, and Latin American politics. His book, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2013), offers important lessons for understanding financial crises in the wake of the global pandemic. His new book, Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, July 2021), examines China’s overseas financial investments in the developing world. Professor Kaplan has also published articles in many top research journals, including the Journal of Politics, the Review of International Political Economy, the Latin American Research Review, and World Development. Professor Kaplan holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, a M.S. from Georgetown University, and a post-doctorate fellowship from Princeton University. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Kaplan was a senior economic researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, writing extensively on developing country economics, global finance, and emerging market crises from 1998 to 2003.

Moderator

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Gregg A. Brazinsky is Professor of History and International Affairs, Deputy Director of the Institute for Korean Studies, and Interim Director for the Sigur Center at GW. He also serves as Director of the Asian Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs. His research seeks to understand the diverse and multifaceted 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. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

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09/27/2021 | Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Michael Pettid

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“One Woman’s Take on Life in Chosŏn Korea”

Monday, September 27, 2021

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

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The Kyuhap ch’ongsŏ [The Encyclopedia of Daily Life] was compiled by Lady Yi Pinhŏgak (1759-1824) in the early years of the nineteenth century. The work was meant to be a guide to knowledge that womenfolk needed to properly manage a household and was passed on to her daughters and daughters-in-law. This translation covers two of the five volumes of the work that cover food and drink, and prenatal care, medicine, and first aid. The work gives great insight into what upper status women held to be important during this period and how they sought to achieve their goals. Lady Yi used various sources for her work including those written in Literary Chinese, Korean, and also oral knowledge that must have circulated widely at the time. The result is a work unlike any other that gives readers a small glimpse into the lives of upper status women during this time.

Michael J. Pettid is a Professor of Korean Studies at Binghamton University where he has taught since 2003. Prior to that, he received his doctorate from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and taught in Korea at the Academy of Korean Studies and Ewha Women’s University. The focus of his research and teaching is premodern Korea’s history, literature, religion, and culture. His most recent books are the co-edited volumes of Premodern Korean Literary Prose (Columbia University Press, 2018) and Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times (University of Hawaii Press, 2014); he also has monographs of Unyŏng-on: A Love Affair at the Royal Palace of Chosŏn Korea (Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley), and Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History (Reaktion Books, 2008) among numerous other publications. His most recent publication is a co-authored an annotated translation of a nineteenth century guidebook for women, the Kyuhap ch’ongsŏ [The Encyclopedia of Daily Life] (University of Hawaii Press, 2021).

The Lowest Ebb: China’s Policy toward North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969

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GW Institute for Korean Studies presents

“The Lowest Ebb: China’s Policy toward North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969”

featuring
Yafeng Xia
Professor of history at Long Island University, New York

Yafeng Xia is professor of history at Long Island University in New York and senior research fellow at Research Institute for Asian Neighborhood, East China Normal University in Shanghai. A formal research fellow and Public Policy fellow/scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, he is the author of Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949‒1972 (2006), coauthor of Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945‒1959: A New History, with Zhihua Shen (2015), and Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959‒1973: A New History, with Danhui Li (2017), as well as many articles on Cold War history. He has coauthored a new book, entitled, “A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung and the Myth of Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976,” which is under review for publication.

Friday, March 31st, 2017
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Marvin Center Room 302
The George Washington University
800 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052
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China’s relations with North Korea, especially during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1969, have received relatively little scholarly attention. Making use of newly acquired Chinese and Russian sources, Eastern European Communist‒era documents, and CIA analytical reports, I argue that China’s relationship with North Korea had worsened substantially during the eighteen months prior to the May 1966 beginning of the Cultural Revolution. By that time China had already believed that the Korean Workers’ Party was carrying out a “revisionist” policy.  I contend that the main reasons for the deterioration in Sino–North Korean relations were China’s radical and uncompromising foreign and domestic policies. However, it is important to distinguish the verbal attacks by the Red Guards on North Korean leaders from the position of the Chinese government. A review of North Korea’s relations with Beijing and Moscow between 1966 and 1969 reveals that Pyongyang did not have as much leverage over its two Communist allies as has generally been believed. Instead, Pyongyang was mainly reacting to policy changes in Beijing and Moscow, and it thereby adjusted its policies in order to better protect its own national security and interests.

Prospects for Korea-Japan Reconciliation in a Time of Political Turmoil

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Dr. Daniel Roh, a native Korean, has worked as college professor, management/investment consultant, and writer in the past 3 decades in Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Korea. He was trained as a Japan specialist at MIT with his PhD degree in the field of comparative political economy. In recent years, he has been interested in historical conflicts between Japan and Korea. Dr. Roh has published numerous books in Japanese and Korean. They include Abe Shinzo’s Japan (published in Korean in 2014) and The Takeshima Secret Pact (published in Japanese in 2008), which was awarded the grand prize of the Asia Pacific Award given by Mainichi Shimbun in 2009. At present, he is president and CEO of Asia Risk Monitor, Inc. registered in Seoul, Korea. 

May 23-24, 2017 Workshop

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“Korea and the World: New Frontiers in Korean Studies.”

The conference will take place on May 23-24 at the George Washington University, with ten young scholars presenting their studies.

Presenters:

  1. Dajeong Chung, The College of William and Mary, “From Dependency to Self Sufficiency, 1962-1972: American Food Relief to the Korean Peripheries.”
  2. Jeongmin Kim, New York University, “South Korea’s Wartime Black Market: Sexual Exchanges and the Everyday Economy during the Korean War.”
  3. Jooeun Kim, Georgetown University, “The Vietnam War and U.S. Credibility on the Korean Peninsula.”
  4. Khue Dieu Do, Seoul National University, “The Carter Zeal versus the Carter Chill: U.S. Relations with the Two Koreas during the Carter Administration.”
  5. Patrick Chung, Brown University, “From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: The US Military, Infrastructural Development, and the Origins, of South Korea’s Export Boom.”
  6. Peter Banseok Kwon, Harvard University, “Korea’s Search for Autonomy: Park Chung Hee’s Defense Industry Development and Evolving U.S.-ROK Relations, 1971-1979.”
  7. Steven Denney, The University of Toronto, “The Micro-Foundations of Democratic Support in Post-Transition South Korea.”
  8. Darcey Draudt, The Johns Hopkins University, “Multiculturalism as State Policy and Citizenship Practices in Global Korea.”
  9. Benjamin Young, The George Washington University, “Armed with Pencils and Notebooks: North and South Korean Students at the Teheran Foreign School in the Early 1980s.”
  10. Thomas Stock, University of California, Los Angeles, “Under Attack: Fraternal Criticism, Global Discourse, and the Development of North Korean Ideology.”

Commentators:

  1. Arissa Oh, Boston College
  2. Jiyoung Lee, American University
  3. Mitch Lerner, The Ohio State University
  4. Gregg Brazinsky, The George Washington University
  5. Harris Mylonas, The George Washington University
  6. James F. Person, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Afterlife of Division: Reconsidering the Post-Summit Reunions of Korean Families Separated between North and South

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GWIKS First Lecture Series

featuring
Nan Kim
Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Date/Time: January 30th, Monday/ 2:30 pm- 4:30 pm

Location: Room 505, 1957 E Street, N.W., Washington DC, 20052

GWIKS’s first lecture will feature Professor Nan Kim. She is an Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and specializes in divided Korea and Northeast Asia with their contemporary history, post-conflict reconciliation, historical trauma, theories of subjectivity, memory studies, and anthropology politics.  She attained her Bachelor degree at Princeton in English Language and Literature and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social/Cultural Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Nan Kim started as an Adjunct Professor at Alverno College and now works for University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She received honors from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Korea Foundation, Fulbright, Society for Economic Anthropology, Korea University, and Seoul National University. She is also the author of “Reuniting Families, Reframing the Korean War: Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Vernacular Memory”, “Memory, Reconciliation and Reunions of Separated Families in Contemporary South Korea: Crossing the Divide”, and “Korea on the Brink: Reading the Yonpyong Shelling and its Aftermath”.

2018 GWIKS Signature Conference

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Panel I: “Rights in Historical Perspective”

Legal Disputes and the Precursors of Rights (Kwŏlli) in Chosŏn Korea

Jisoo M. Kim, The George Washington University

 

Precarious Inheritance: Women and the Rights Over Separate Property in Colonial Korea

Sungyun Lim, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

A Tale of Two Commissions: The Evolution of Rights Claims in the Jeju Commission and the TCRK

Hun Joon Kim, Korea University

 

Discussant: Li Chen, University of Toronto

 

Panel II: “Institutional Mechanisms for Rights Claiming”

The State, the Constitutional Court, and I: Fundamental Rights and Judicial Review in Korea

Hannes B. Mosler, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Evolving Legal Opportunity Structures in South Korea

Celeste Arrington, The George Washington University

 

The Institutional Development and Sustainability of Public Interest Lawyering in Korea

Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University

 

Discussants: Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego & Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel III: “Mobilizing Rights for the Marginalized”

The Disability Rights Movement and Legal Practice in South Korea

JaeWon Kim, Sungkyunkwan University

 

Now, Later, Never: On Shigisangjo and Prematurity 

Ju Hui Judy Han, University of California, Los Angeles

 

The Movement for an Anti-Discrimination Act

Sung Soo Hong, Sookmyung Women’s University

Jihye Kim, Gangneung-Wonju National University

 

From “Humane Treatment” to “We Want to Work”: The Changing Notion of Labor Rights in South Korea 

Yoonkyung Lee, University of Toronto

 

Discussants: Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania & Sida Liu, University of Toronto

 

Panel IV: “Shaping Rights for New and Non-Citizens”

The Rights of Non-Citizenship: Migrant Rights and Hierarchies in South Korea 

Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University

 

Human Rights or Citizen Rights? Explaining Global Policies Toward North Korean Refugee Resettlement 

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, University of Missouri

 

How North Koreans Understand the Rights and Responsibilities of Democratic Citizenship: Implications for Political Integration 

Aram Hur, New York University

 

Discussant: Hae Yeon Choo, University of Toronto

12/6/19: Korea Policy Forum, “The Crisis that Has Defied Five Presidents: Covering the North Korean Nuclear Program for Three Decades”

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies & the East Asia National Resource Center Present:

 

Korea Policy Forum

 

“The Crisis that Has Defied Five Presidents:
Covering the North Korean Nuclear Program for Three Decades”

 

Speaker

David E. Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times

Moderator

    Yonho Kim, Associate Director, the GW Institute for Korean Studies

Date & Time

Friday, December 6, 2019
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602,
Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052

 

Event Description

The North Korean nuclear drama often seems like a movie in constant re-runs: A set of actions in Pyongyang creates a crisis; the crisis generates threats and sanctions, and then a spate of diplomacy as one American president after another promises to deal with the problem, once and for all. And yet, for all the noise, the North Koreans appear to be on a steady track toward building their nuclear arsenal, and the missile capability to deliver it. David E. Sanger, who has covered these issues since the late 1980’s, talks about what is the same now and what is quite different—and poses the question of whether there is a way out of this continuous loop. He will also address the North’s growing cyber capability, and why it offers the country leverage and capability that nuclear weapons do not.

Speaker

headshot of David E. Sanger in professional attireDavid E. Sanger is a national security correspondent and a senior writer. In a 36-year reporting career for The New York Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age, examines the emergence of cyber-conflict as the primary way large and small states are competing and undercutting each other, changing the nature of global power. He is also the author of two Times best sellers on foreign policy and national security: The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, published in 2009, and Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, published in 2012. For The Times, Mr. Sanger has served as Tokyo bureau chief, Washington economic correspondent, White House correspondent during the Clinton and Bush administrations, and Chief Washington correspondent. 

 

Moderator

portrait of Yonho Kim with white backgroundYonho Kim is Associate Research Professor of Practice and 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 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.

This event is open to public and on the record.

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