Geopolitical Affairs Programs

2026 Gala

2026 Annual Gala

2026 Van Fleet Award Honoree
JENSEN HUANG
Founder & CEO
NVIDIA

This year, the Korea Society is honored to announce the 2026 Van Fleet Award recipient is Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in recognition

Korean War Exhibition Photos

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—POSTPONED—Korea and the Politics of Identity III: Essays and Identity

POSTPONED The Korea Society welcomes Queens College Professor Pyonggap Min and the staff of the Korean American Data Bank as they award the winners of

Walter “Skip” Sharp

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and The Korea Society invite you to meet Walter “Skip” Sharp, retired United States Army Four Star General, Senior Strategic Adviser, Korea

Media Perceptions and Korea

Ivan Zakharchenko, UN Correspondent for Russia’s Ria-Novosti, reflects on his decades of covering the Korean Peninsula—including time in Seoul and Pyongyang reporting for TASS—as well

Confronting the Human Rights Challenge in North Korea

During Kim Jong-un’s rule, North Korea’s unrelenting deprivation of fundamental human rights has, if possible, gotten even worse. North Koreans seek to flee the regime

North Korea’s Prisoners: The Gender Dimension

Roberta Cohen, co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and Jinhye Jo, a North Korean refugee, examine the violence against women in

Korea and the Politics of Identity II: The First Generation

Susan Cox, Holt International Vice President of Policy and External Affairs and Honorary Korean Consul General for Oregon, looks at how the first generation of

Obama visits Asia: State of the Rebalance

State of the Rebalance Thomas Hubbard, US State Department/Korea Society/McLarty AssociateMay 23,2014   President Obama’s recent trip to Asia was a timely, perhaps necessary, reminder

Korea and the Politics of Identity I: How in Heaven’s Name

Novelist Cho Chongnae’s How in Heaven’s Name focuses on a group of Korean youths conscripted and forced to serve across Asia and Europe in World

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Ambassadors’ Dialogue: U.S.- Korea Relations

As part of the Korea Economic Institute of America’s Ambassadors’ Dialogue Series, American Ambassador Sung Kim and Republic of Korea Ambassador Ahn Ho-young address current