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Fall 2024
August 29, 2024
Cyber Shadows: Understanding and Countering North Korea’s Illicit Digital Operations
September 4-5, 2024
Korea Week
September 4:
Session 1 – International Competition in Advanced Technologies and Korea-U.S. Relations. / Session 2 – Navigating Uncertainties: Inter-Korean Relations, Russia-North Korea Dynamics, and the Impacts of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
Septemper 5:
K-Culture Day: On-campus Korean Food Tasting Event, Conversation with K-Culture Expert, Film Screening- “Past Lives” by Director Celine Song
September 13, 2024
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
Park Jeong-Mi – “The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Nation Building in South Korea.”
October 1, 2024
Premodern Korea Lecture Series
Barbara Wall – “The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to The Journey to the West in Korea.”
October 8-9, 2024
The 2024 North Korea Economic Forum (NKEF) Annual Conference seeks to dive into how the North’s economic policies are shaped by, and in turn influence, its international relations.
October 17, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
Minister of Unification Yung Ho Kim – “Changing Geopolitics in Northeast Asia and Inter-Korean Relations”
October 18, 2024
Soh Jaipil Lecture Series
Joan Cho – “Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy.”
October 25, 2024
2nd Annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium titled “K-Food for Thought: Questioning the Korean Culinary Culture
October 30, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
North Korean Human Rights and “August 15 Unification Doctrine”
November 15, 2024
Korea Policy Forum
North Korea Human rights and “August 15 Unification Doctrine”
November 20, 2024
Global Korea Forum
“Trilateral Cooperation and the Korean Peninsula” through the U.S., South Korea, and Japan partnership.”
Spring 2025
January 30, 2025
2025 Spring Festival & Lunar New Year Party with the GW Asian Studies community.
February 5, 2025
Korea Policy Forum
“Citizen Activism in the Wake of Korea’s Martial Law Declaration: Student and Faculty Perspectives.”
February 24, 2025
Korea Policy Forum
U.S.-South Korea economic relations, featuring expert insights on trade policy, investment, and economic security.
March 21, 2025
Signature Conference, Joint Event with NRC and EALL
Linguistic Influence of Korean Popular Culture across Global Boundaries
March 28, 2025
Pre Modern Lecture Series
Hyun Suk Park – “Courtesans in Military Garrisons in Choson Korea”
March 29, 2025
GW-IU Undergraduate Research Conference
U.S.-South Korea economic relations, featuring expert insights on trade policy, investment, and economic security.
April 1, 2025
North Korea Economic Forum
The Trump 2.0 Administration and the North Korean Economy
April 7, 2025
Pre Modern Lecture Series
Dennis Wuerthner – “Kumo Sinhwa as Anti-Yiduan Propaganda-Fiction”
April 11, 2025
Signature Conference, Joint Event with NRC/TERP/Sigur
Disability Rights in East Asian Democracies
