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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

The Future of Korean International Competitiveness

The globalization model adopted by major Korean companies like Hyundai, LG and Samsung has made Korea one of the world’s most advanced economies. To stay

President Lee Myung-Bak addresses The Korea Society

On April 15, 2008, His Excellency Lee Myung-Bak, the 17th President of the Republic of Korea, addressed the members, friends and guests of The Korea

New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations

New Beginnings Project: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations During a press conference held in New York at The Korea Society, three members of the New

The Republic of Bloggers

With some of the highest rates of broadband and wireless Internet penetration in the world, Korea and Japan are home to thriving online communities that

The New York Philharmonic

A Panel Discussion When the New York Philharmonic became the first American orchestra to play in North Korea on February 26, 2008, decades worth of

Reinventing Traditional Korean Music

Komun’go performance and master class with Heo Yoon-JeongKomun’go Performer and Composer Thursday, February 28, 2008 Legend has it that when Korean courtiers first played the

North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces

When assessing the impact of the mid-1990s famine on the North Korean population, experts have been working on an assumption: that North Koreans living in

Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity

    On February 7, 2008, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of

The Secret History of Capitalism

From 18th Century Britain to 20th Century South Korea Over the last two and half decades, most developing countries have experienced slowing growth, rising inequality

Evolution of the U.S.-ROK Military Alliance

The U.S.-ROK military alliance is strong, according to General B.B. Bell, commander of United States Forces Korea, and the time has come to make it