April 30, 2015 - Katharina Zellweger, former North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, discusses current research on the issue of people with disabilities in North Korean society. Ms. Zellweger, who first visited the DPRK over 20 years ago, worked in North Korea from 2006-2011 on humanitarian aid and development assistance.

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http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/people_with_disabilities_in_a_changing_north_korea.html

April 23, 2015 - Interweaving cultural, intellectual, and literary history, Professor Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, looks at Korean writers in the final decade of Japanese colonial rule.  Korean writers, including Yi T’aejun, Ch’oe Myŏngik, Im Hwa, Sŏ Insik, Ch’oe Chaesŏ, Pak T’aewŏn, Kim Namch’on, and O Changhwan, used various strategies to narrate life as colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, producing some of the most sophisticated writings of twentieth-century modernism.

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http://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/literature/literature_in_late_colonial_korea.html

April 16, 2015 - Phil Suttle, Director of Global Economic Analysis for Tudor Investment Corporation, and Charles Kimball, Managing Director for Korea Center for International Finance, offer analyses on the state of the South Korean economy and how deflationary concerns affects prospects for growth.

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http://www.koreasociety.org/corporate/koreas_economic_outlook.html

March 18, 2015 - Author and journalist Blaine Harden discusses his new book, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom, with Kenneth Rowe (No Kum Sok), the former fighter pilot in the North Korean Air Force who defected to South Korea in his MiG-15 in 1953. The book interweaves Rowe’s story with that of Kim Il-Sung’s rise to power during the Korean War.

Using government documents found in Chinese and Russian archives related to the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim’s rise to power, as well as Rowe’s never-before-released FBI, CIA, and US Air Force files, Harden has written a heart-pounding escape adventure that provides an entirely new way to understand the world’s longest-lasting totalitarian state.

For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/literature/the_great_leader_and_the_fighter_pilot_with_blaine_harden.html

March 5, 2015 - Alan McGlade, Managing Director of DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures) and Co-CEO of DEV Korea, discusses investment opportunities in Korean startups and suggests ways to build collaborative bridges between New York and Seoul through DEV’s new fund. 

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http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/investing_in_korean_startups.html

February 19, 2015 - Be inspired by the story of a young woman who overcame life’s challenges to launch a business and fulfill her dream of visiting NYC during Fashion Week! Su Kyung Kim, the 19-year-old founder and CEO of Korean online shopping mall Victoria Garconne, discusses overcoming personal and financial hardships, launching a fashion retail business at age 15, and growing it into a million-dollar company before turning 20.

For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/contemporary-korea/koreas_online_shopping_mall_phenom.html

February 25, 2015 - Marking a year since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) Report on North Korea, Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Advisor and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University, speaks to the significance of the report and steps forward. Dr. Cha will be joined by Lindsay Lloyd, Program Director at the Bush Institute, in a session introduced by The Korea Society SVP Dr. Stephen Noerper.

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http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/human_rights_and_diplomacy_on_the_korean_peninsula.html

February 19, 2015 - Part of the Legacies in Korea-U.S. Relations and Media Perceptions of Korea Series

Rutherford Poats, former United Press War Correspondent and Bureau Chief, discusses his book, Decision in Korea. Published over sixty years ago—and recently re-released as an ebook—this “reporter’s survey” stands as a vital record of the choices that tested a war-weary United States and the young United Nations.

For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/decision_in_korea_six_decades_on.html

January 28, 2015 - Makeup artist Seong Hee Park, who created looks for K-Pop’s Wonder Girls and TV star Yunjin Kim, explores how the traditional ideals of Korean beauty in the paintings of Chosŏn-era artist Shin Yun-bok influences today’s Korean female stars.

For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/contemporary-korea/images_of_korean_female_beauty.html

February 2, 2015 - Author Jang Jin-sung, on his first visit to the U.S., discusses his new book, Dear Leader Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea, which describes his life in North Korea as a psychological warfare officer and one of Kim Jong-il’s revered “court poets,” as well as his dramatic escape to China and South Korea. Jang will also read selections from his poetry and share insights into North Korea shaped by his experiences as well as contacts with North Korean exiles and overseas officials. The evening’s discussion will be led by Dr. Su Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and current senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/literature/jang_jin-sung_poet_spy_escapee.html