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 […]
REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESIDENT PARK GEUN-HYE IN A BILATERAL MEETING
His Excellency YJ Choi, South Korea’s Ambassador to the United States, and Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, The Korea Society Chair, dialogued on the remarkable relationship between Korea and the United States, and Korea’s rise globally. Korea and the U.S. share a common security and vibrant business relations. Korea figures as a growing investor in the United […]
Experts reflect on President Park Geun-hye inauguration, promises of greater “economic democracy” at home and a new trustpolitik with the North, and relations with the U.S. Stanford University’s David Straub, The Council on Foreign Relations’ Scott Snyder, and Yonsei University’s John Delury address these issues, with an eye toward evolving regional dynamics. […]
