The Asia Institute Seminar
20th March, 2012
Dr. Harold Varmus
Director
The National Cancer Institute, U.S.A
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Technology and Society
Report on the Asia Institute Seminar on Nuclear power in North Korea (March 22, 2012)
Stephane Mot published this article about the lively discussion at the Asia Institute seminar on North Korea’s nuclear program held on Thursday.
Dr. Kim Myungja
President Green 21
(former minister of the environment; author of “The
Nuclear Dilemma”)
Dr. Sok Chul Kim
Senior Researcher
Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety
Ms. Sharon Squassoni
Director
Proliferation Prevention Program
CSIS
Mr. Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
North Korea and Nukes: Back to the Stone Age?
As expected, North Korea set the agenda ahead of the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit (see focus on Seoul Village), this time by announcing for April a ‘satellite’ launch in the general direction of (Japan, thank Kim The Third for small mercies) the East China Sea.
“Worse than the Great Depression” Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Seminar
This seminar at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues that the current situation is far worse than the great depression for America in terms of loss of manufacturing. The argument should be taken seriously.
Asia Institute Seminar on Nuclear Power in North Korea
Asia Institute Seminar
On the occasion of Seoul Nuclear Summit
“Revisiting Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Security in North Korea”
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Asia Institute Seminar with Nayan Chanda (February 3, 2012)
Asia Institute Seminar
Nayan Chanda
Author and Journalist
(Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization)
Emanuel Pastreich
Director
The Asia Institute
(Professor, Kyung Hee University)
“Korea and Globalization”
February 3, 2012
Founding of the “Global Convergence Technology Forum” in Daejeon
March 8, 2012
I had the great pleasure of attending the launching of the “Global Convergence Technology Forum,” the legal NGO form for the Global Convergence Forum that I helped to found in Daejeon about 19 months ago. The meeting was presided over by Professor Jeon Duk Young of KAIST, one of the visionary individuals in Daejeon who fully grasped the value of such a forum for debate
Korean propriety for a network society in Kookmin Daily News (in Korean)
Here is my article on Korean propriety for a network society in Korean in Kookmin Daily News
국민일보 2012년 03월 05일
“네트워크 시대 열어갈 한국 禮學”
하버드대에서 한국 고전문학을 공부했을 때 조선시대의 문학가들인 김만중 박지원 정약용의 글을 좀 읽어봤다. 그 글에 ‘예학(禮學)’이라는 학문에 대한 언급이 참 많았다.
한국의 예학은 단지 관혼상제(冠婚葬祭)의 사례가 모이는 것보다 사회질서를 평화로운 수단으로 유지하는 헌법에 가까운 성격의 제도라는 느낌이 들었다. 현대적인 인간과 인간 사이를 관리하는 방식으로 보이기에 매우 신선했다.
우리는 이른바 네트워크 시대에 살고 있다. 네트워크 속에서 개인으로 구성되는 복잡한 관계가 중대한 영향을 미치는 시대다. 이런 관계는 페이스북이나 다른 소셜 네트워크를 통해 이뤄지지만 사실 우리는 그것이 무엇인지 제대로 알지도 못하는 실정이다.
Article in Munhwa Ilbo newspaper on Korea’s Organic Farming Tradition (in Korean)
This article in Korean recounts the my “Jewel of Great Price” report in Korean. The question raised is how the great tradition of organic farming from Korea’s past can be brought back to life in our age.
문화일보
2012년 2월 29일
“한국 유기농의 무한한 價値”
이만열/경희대 후마니타스칼리지 교수·동아시아문명학
Kyung Hee University’s Founder: Dr. Young Seek Choue (1921-2012)
Young Seek Choue (1921-2012)
Dr. Young Seek Choue was one of most remarkable figures of the post-Korean War period. A man who devoted himself to a vision of peace and education in an age when most Koreans were concerned with the basic challenges of survival and economic development, Dr. Choue was above all a visionary, a man who established and built Kyung Hee University while remaining engaged in a far-sighted plan to “build a civilized world.” He started this project at a time when most Koreans were struggling to feed themselves. He imagined a global role for Korea, deeply engaged with the United Nations, that in the 1950s and 1960s seemed fantastic, but today, with Ban Ki Moon as Secretary General seems most prescient.