In this interview with Richard Bush, director of the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., we discuss recent developments in China and the important role of Korea in Northeast Asia and around the world.
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.
This article in the Segye Ilbo Newspaper discusses my ideas about the importance of the humanities and the Korean tradition of the scholar “Seonbi”
March 19, 2012
Emanuel Pastreich interview in Segye Ilbo Newspaper
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
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
This article is the Korean version of the Asia Institute Seminar with Mr. Nayan Chanda. Mr. Nayan Chanda serves as the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at theYale Center for the Study of Globalization. he is a distinguished author and long-time journalist–best known for breaking stories from the Far Eastern Economic Review. The interview concerns Korea’s new global role and the long-term process of globalization that has formed our world.
Emanuel will be a discussant on Saturday, March 17, 2012, at a symposium concerning the “DMZ International Peace Residency” established adjacent to the DMZ near Yeoncheon by the Institute for Modern Art of Kyung Hee University.
Here is a short description of the event:
The Institute for Modern Art at Kyung Hee University, taking as its subject the “wound of global conflict” that defines the division of the Korean Peninsula strives to imagine how we can use culture and art to heal that wound.
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
