Past Events

The We/Me Culture: Marketing in Korea

    Koreans take great pride in their country’s ethnic homogeneity and are deeply influenced by Confucian values that stress group identity and social harmony.

17th Annual Golf Tournament

After a long absence, the Van Fleet Memorial Golf Tournament returned to the Alpine Country Club in Demarest, New Jersey in 2007. If the 87

Exhibiting Korea

A New, Monthly Series of Gallery Talk Programs May 24 – November 16, 2007 Exhibiting Korea, a new monthly series of presentations on the fine

The We/Me Culture: Marketing in Korea

Koreans take great pride in their country’s ethnic homogeneity and are deeply influenced by Confucian values that stress group identity and social harmony. Seem like

Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World

Exhibition July 26, 2007 – December 18, 2007 “… eye-catching.” – New York Times Art Review, “Korea’s Extraordinary Send-Offs for Ordinary People”, August 17, 2007

Is the Korean Wave Dead? The Next Phase of Korean Pop Culture

Recent years have seen a wave of Korean pop culture—known as hallyu—sweep across Asia as consumers from Thailand to Japan became ardent fans of Korean

Film Panel: Finishing the Game

  When Bruce Lee died, he left behind 12 minutes of footage from his final film. The upcoming movie Finishing the Game imagines what would have happened

Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea

In 1993, Cullen Thomas was a young man who wanted to see the world and South Korea was one of his first stops. Convicted of

24 Hours After South Korea’s Presidential Election: An Assessment

The upcoming presidential election in South Korea on December 19 could mark a critical turning point in U.S.-ROK relations and the ongoing negotiations over North

How and Why We Remember the Korean War

A Discussion of David Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter David Halberstam’s final book, The Coldest Winter, a new history of the Korean War, has been on