Djun Kil Kim

Samsung Korean Studies Program Professorial & Research Chair,
University of Asia & the Pacific

 Tuesday, March 24 @ 5:30 pm

Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center
1952 Gallows Rd. Suite 330, Vienna, VA 22182

 Korean modern history remains defined by two pivotal experiences of the Korean people in the 20th century: Japanese colonial occupation and the post-World War II national division. Yet today there are still divergent, competing narratives that interpret the significance of these traumatic but probationary periods, even within an individual nation among the political left and right. In the Republic of Korea, for example, the left and right share common political ancestry of conventional anti-colonial nationalism, but differ in anti-communist or anti-intervention ideologies. In order to seek a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary Korean history, this lecture pursues a new narrative of Korea developing and transforming through the influence of various global civilization doctrines such as Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Communism, and American functionalism, throughout its history.

Common Ground 

On view through March 25

Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C.

Thursday, March 26 @ 6:30 pm

Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C.

Through March 31

The 8th Korea-America Student Conference is accepting applications from U.S. undergraduate and graduate students for the upcoming conference held in the U.S. this July 2015. KASC is an intensive academic and cultural exchange program launched in 2008 to build closer ties between young leaders in both countries. Each year, fifty students from the U.S. and Korea are competitively selected to spend one summer month together, discussing, analyzing, and presenting innovative solutions to global and bilateral issues in the US-Korea relationship. Rolling admissions until March 31, 2015. Details here.