On April 25, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in a joint press conference with President Park of the Republic of Korea at the Blue House, Seoul, South Korea. Friday, April 25, 2014 Remarks By President Obama and President Park of The Republic of Korea in Joint Press Conference
In December 2011, Kim Jong-un took over for his father as supreme leader of North Korea. More than two years into Kim Jong-un’s reign, many North Koreans still suffer severe economic privation, as well as strict social and political controls. Though North Korea remains largely closed to the international media, North Korean citizen-journalists have managed […]
On March 28, 2014, Korean President Park Geun-hye delivered a historic address on Korean unification at the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. Friday, March 28, 2014 Park’s Historic Dresden Address on Unification
Amnesty International’s Frank Jannuzi discusses the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report of North Korean human rights violations. The report follows an extensive year-long review, including testimony by victims of the regime. Frank Jannuzi, Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research and Head of Washington, DC Office of […]
Dr. Park Jin, former Member of Parliament and Chair Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, examines the opportunities and challenges for Korea’s foreign policy at a time of increased regional tensions. Moderated by Ambassador Mark Minton, President of The Korea Society. Korea’s Foreign Policy Initiatives under Park Geun-hye […]
Georgetown Professor, noted Korea analyst, and author of Beyond the Final Score Victor Cha joins Senior Vice President Stephen Noerper for a Studio Korea taping on sports, Sochi, and the road to the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. The two discuss Korea’s “coming out” at the historic 1988 Seoul Games, the hand-off of the torch from Sochi […]
Join dynamic contemporary artist Jin Joo Chae in this Studio Korea session. Jin Joo Chae employs printmaking and mixed media and is concerned with American coverage of the tense dynamics between North and South Korea. Using fragile and fragrant media–newspaper and screen-printed chocolate–she manipulates dominant political narratives to suggest more complex and physically embodied realities. […]
Korea’s President and her advisors speak of hope for enhanced trilateral relations among Korea, the United States and China. 2013’s historic summits between Obama and Park, Obama and Xi, and Park and Xi revealed a growing complementarity of positions vis-a-vis North Korea and common calls for denuclearization. How does Korea navigate space among its great […]
On December 11th, 2013, Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, chairman of the Korea Society, appeared on Public Radio International’s The Takeaway. He discussed the significance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ousting his uncle and mentor Jang Song-thaek from office with host John Hockenberry. http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/ouster-north-korea-leaves-world-watching/
Korea uber-analyst and author Bob Carlin discusses on the day of its re-release what many consider the foremost book on modern Korea, Don Oberdorfer’s The Two Koreas. Carlin wrote the updated forward, bringing this arresting publication, loved by university students, business leaders and public alike, to a new generation of readers. Carlin discusses the changes […]
