A collection of original audio and video products made in-house by The Korea Society in 2017. |
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Heungnam Remembered
Thursday, December 14, 2017 | 4:00 PM
Author Ned Forney and retired Admiral J. Robert Lunney discuss the Heungnam Evacuation and Lunney’s “Ship of Miracles” in this special holiday event commemorating the United Nation’s first humanitarian evacuation. Forney speaks to his major Seoul daily release profiling six descendants of those saved, including South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Lunney, who welcomed President Moon to Virginia during his first US visit as President, shares reflections on those harrowing days,… Read More
PyeongChang 2018 Launch featuring Olympic Committee President Lee Hee-beom
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 | 11:00 AM
Have Olympic fever? You will. Curious about the first of the three successive Olympics Games in Northeast Asia beginning in 2018? Amazed by photos of PyeongChang ready to host the world? The Hon. Lee Hee-beom, President and CEO of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, speaks to Korea Society members, media and other dignitaries in advance of the XXIII Winter Games. The day after a United Nations resolution… Read More
Trump in Asia
Thursday, November 9, 2017 | 6:00 PM
Pacific Forum CSIS President Ralph Cossa discusses President Trump's visit to Korea and East Asia, as well as the political and security landscape of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Cossa reflects on Trump's message on North Korea, concerns over missile and nuclear capabilities, and challenges to and opportunities for Korea-US coordination and trilateral cooperation. Senior director and Columbia professor Stephen Noerper facilitates this special news maker dialogue, which also… Read More
Korea-Russia-China Relations: New Realities for the Korean Peninsula
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 | 12:00 PM
Will Russia play a constructive role in helping stem tensions around the Korean Peninsula? Or will it play the role of spoiler given a decline in US-Russia relations? How do the approaches of Moscow toward Pyongyang and Seoul square with those of Beijing? How is South Korea responding? Noted Russian professor Anna Kireeva speaks to dynamics in Korea’s relations with Russia and China, as well as Russia’s Asia pivot, as… Read More
Advancements in Higher Education for Women featuring Ewha Womans University President Heisook Kim
Thursday, October 26, 2017 | 4:00 PM
Members, professors, students and Ewha Woman University alumni gather to hear Ewha Womans University President Heisook Kim. Among the forefront of Korean educators, President Heisook Kim speaks to the challenges and opportunities in higher education and the growth of women leaders. An alumni reception follows.Arrivals: 3:30 PM - 3:45 PMAddress and Q&A: 4 PM - 5 PMReception: 5 PM -5:30 PM Advancements in Higher Education for Women featuring Ewha Womans… Read More
Po Kim: Making Impossible Demands on Art
Monday, October 23, 2017 | 6:00 PM
In the course of his career, painter Po Kim worked in three distinct modes, gestural abstraction, realist still-life and symbolist figuration. This talk will examine each of these periods and look at how Po Kim's work related to the art of the period, especially that of other artists working in New York. I will also seek to understand the motives that sparked his stylistic restlessness, and ask whether his early… Read More
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