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Ambassador Christopher Hill Book Event: Outpost

Monday, October 20, 2014 | 12:00 AM
- About the Speaker Title: Ambassador Christopher Hill Book Event: Outpost
- About the Speaker: 2014-10-20 12:00:00
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- Event Link:   (From Simon & Schuster Publishing) Christopher Robert Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.       
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- Custom HTML field 2 title:   (From Simon & Schuster Publishing) Outpost is his memoir. Hill’s account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.    
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On October 20th, Christopher R. Hill, former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul and now Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, visited The Korea Society to talk about his recently published memoir, "Outpost, Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy." Ambassador Christopher R. Hill’s Memoir: Outpost Monday, October 20, 2014 | 6 PM 5:30 AM | Registration & Light Fare 6:00 PM | Discussion $10... Read More
Euny Hong: The Birth of Korean Cool

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | 6:30 PM
- About the Speaker Title: Kyung-sook Shin: I’ll Be Right ThereEuny Hong: The Birth of Korean Cool
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- Event Link: Euny Hong is a journalist and author with international experience in web, print, and television news. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Europe, International Herald Tribune, New Republic, Boston Globe, and The Forward. She is the author of one previous book, the novel Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners. She is fluent in English, French, German, and Korean.   <hr />   About the Book   In 1985, 12-year-old Euny Hong, an American, entered a Korean public school system that thrashed students for wearing unzipped jackets; her elite Hyundai apartment building regularly faced brownouts and water shutoffs. Two decades later, Korea had leapfrogged from third-world military dictatorship to first-world liberal democracy on the cutting edge of global technology. It paid back a $57 billion loan from the IMF, wired the entire country for superfast Internet, and created the Ministry of Culture to spread the Korean Brand worldwide. Samsung, once known as ‘Samsuck,’ now generates 1/5 of South Korea’s GDP and dominates the global smartphone market. Hong pairs stories from her own childhood, spent first in Chicago and then in the Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul, with in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews. She spoke with government officials and cultural icons—Samsung execs, admins at Korea’s National Institute for International Education, Michelin-starred chefs, rapper Psy of the viral hit “Gangnam Style”—to show us how one country made an unprecedented leap into the 21st century to become a global leader in business, technology, education, and pop culture.  
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Author Euny Hong discusses, with The Wall Street Journal Online’s columnist Jeffrey Yang, her first nonfiction book, The Birth of Korean Cool, which mixes stories from her childhood in Korea with in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews with government officials and cultural icons. The result is an entertaining look at how South Korea made an unprecedented leap into the 21st century to become a global leader in business, technology, education, and pop culture. The book will be available for sale and a... Read More
The Samsung Way: Corporate Book Event

Thursday, August 7, 2014 | 6:00 PM
- About the Speaker Title: The Samsung Way: Corporate Book Event
- About the Speaker: 2014-08-07 18:00:00
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- Event Link: Jaeyong Song is AmorePacific Chaired Professor of Strategy and International Management at Seoul National University (SNU). He received his Ph.D. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SNU, he was a Professor of Strategy at Columbia Business School and Yonsei University. He has served as the Associate Dean of SNU Business School. He also served as Vice President of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration (KASBA) and President of the Association of Korean Management Scholars (AKMS). He is a Korea Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and an editor of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), which is a Financial Times top 45 business journal. Professor Song also served as an adjunct consultant to both the World Bank and the Medley Global Advisors in New York. He worked as a visiting research fellow for the Asian Development Bank Institute and the Long-Term Credit Bank Research Institute in Japan. He has written articles for Chosun Daily and Maeil Economic Daily as a guest columnist. Professor Song was chosen as one of the top 10 business/management gurus in Korea by Maeil Economic Daily in 2011. He was a keynote speaker for GE’s Global Leadership Meeting 2014. He won both the Richman Best Dissertation Award of the Academy of Management and the Hedlund Best Dissertation Award from the European International Business Association in 1999. He also won the Chazen Teaching Innovation Award at Columbia Business School in 1999 and the best performing professor award from Yonsei University (2003). He won both the SNU Teaching Award (2009) and the Best Teaching Award at Seoul National University Business School (2005). He received the Maeil Economic Daily Book of the Year Award with his book “The Samsung Way.” He also received the KASBA SERI Best Researcher Award (2014), the best paper award from the KASBA (2008), Korean Academy of Management (2011), Korean Academy of International business (2008), and Korean Association of Small Businesses (2009). He has been involved in executive education programs for such major corporations as Samsung, Hyundai-Kia Motors, LG, SK, POSCO, Lotte, and KT. He has also served as an advisor and/or a board member of major corporations such as Samsung, Hyundai-Kia Motors,SK Holdings, Lotte Confectionary, POSCO, AmorePacific, Nongshim, and Hanmi Parsons.His research has appeared in top-tier journals including Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Research Policy. His article was also published in the Harvard Business Review. His books “Smart Management” and “The Samsung Way” became best sellers. “The Samsung Way” has been published in multiple languages by McGraw Hill and other major publishers abroad. He is on the editorial board of Long Range Planning and Global Strategy Journal. His current research interests cover global strategy and innovation strategy.
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A bestseller in Korea, with over 100,000 copies sold, The Samsung Way reveals the management principles driving one of the world’s most innovative Korean companies. Having conducted over 80 interviews with senior Samsung executives, Dr. Jaeyong Song discusses the compelling transformation of Samsung from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a global leader and industry competitor of Apple, Intel, GE and Microsoft. Thursday, August 7, 2014 | 6 PM $10 Members, $20... Read More
Kyung-sook Shin: I’ll Be Right There

Thursday, June 5, 2014 | 6:30 PM
- About the Speaker Title: Kyung-sook Shin: I’ll Be Right There
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- Event Link:   Kyung-sook Shin, the author of eighteen works including seven novels, eight story collections, and three essay collections, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. Her best seller, Please Look After Mom, sold more than two million copies in Korea, and has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold in 34 countries. She was both the first woman and the first Korean to be honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also the recipient of the Today’s Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize, Hyundae Literary Award, Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literature Prize, Yi Sang Literary Award, the Oh Yeongsu Literature Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts. In the last several years she has focused her energy on writing full-length novels that have solidified her position as one of Korea’s top writers. The English translation of her seventh and most recent novel, I’ll Be Right There, will be published on June 3, 2014  
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- Custom HTML field 2 title:   Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief.   Yoon’s formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.  
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Kyung-sook Shin, one of Korea’s most acclaimed writers and author of the international bestseller Please Look After Mom, has written a seventh novel, I’ll Be Right There, a coming-of-age story set in South Korea’s turbulent 1980s. Following the June 3rd release of the English translation of I’ll Be Right There, Ms Shin visits The Korea Society to discuss her life and writing, as well as her latest book. A reception and book signing will follow. Thursday, June 5, 2014 | 6:30 PM The... Read More
Korea and the Politics of Identity I: How in Heaven’s Name

Thursday, May 15, 2014 | 6:00 PM
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Novelist Cho Chongnae’s How in Heaven’s Name focuses on a group of Korean youths conscripted and forced to serve across Asia and Europe in World War II. Translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton discuss this compelling work. Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, senior vice president of The Korea Society. Korea and the Politics of Identity I: How in Heaven’s Name 5:30 PM | Registration & Light Fare 6:00 PM | Discussion Korea Society Fellow, Patron, and Corporate members,please register HERE for complimentary... Read More
Chang-rae Lee: On Such A Full Sea

Thursday, February 6, 2014 | 6:30 PM
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- Event Link: Chang-rae Lee, a second-generation Korean American, immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. He was raised in Westchester, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing. He worked as a Wall Street analyst for a year before turning to writing full time.   He is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.   Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker.   Her first novel, <a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/the-foreign-student-by-susan-choi/">The Foreign Student</a>, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, <a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/american-woman-by-susan-choi/" target="_blank">American Woman</a>, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker.  Her third novel,<a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/a-person-of-interest-home-page/" target="_blank"> A Person of Interest</a>, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award.  In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells, and their sons. 
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- Custom HTML field 2 title: On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class—descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China—find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan’s journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind. On Such A Full Sea goes on sale January 7, 2014.
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Chang-rae Lee, the award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, has written a fifth book, On Such a Full Sea, which is a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America. Following the January publication of this much anticipated new novel, Chang-rae Lee sits down with fellow writer Susan Choi, whose most recent novel is the acclaimed My Education, to discuss his new book; his writing and exploration of identity and culture; as well as his... Read More
K-Literature Book Discussion Group

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 | 6:30 PM
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- Custom HTML field 2 title: Dr. Jin Young Choi was a professor of American literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul for twenty-seven years. She also taught at a college in North Carolina for several years following her graduate studies in the U.S. She has translated several Korean literary works, including Kim Won-Il’s The Wind and the River, as well as short stories and children’s tales. A graduate of Seoul National University, Ms. Choi received an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Seoul National University.
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Lovers of literature and history are invited to join a book discussion group reading three novels by some of Korea’s best known writers, each about a different time period in Korea’s modern history: the Japanese Occupation, the Korean War, and the post-War period. October 1 | Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. KimOctober 29 | The Rainy Spell by Heung-gil Yun, translated by Ji Moon Suh December 3 | Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim Dr.... Read More
Monday Salon @ The Korea Society: A Trio of Writers

Monday, February 11, 2013 | 6:30 PM
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The Korea Society and KoreanAmericanStory.org co-host a literary conversation and reception with three accomplished Korean-American writers: Catherine Chung, Eugenia Kim, and Yuliana Kim-Grant. These authors have written deeply personal and moving novels about loss, hope, and heritage and will share both their stories, as well as their characters’, with readings from their books. Each of these debut novels garnered critical acclaim: Forgotten Country (2012) by Catherine Chung"I was left utterly devastated by the... Read More
A Drop of Chinese Blood Release with James Church

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | 6:00 PM
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James Church’s Inspector O novels have been hailed as “crackling good” (The Washington Post) and “tremendously clever” (Tampa Tribune), with Church himself embraced by critics as “the equal of le Carre” (Publishers Weekly). Now Church—a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way no one else can—comes roaring back with a new series featuring Inspector O’s nephew, Bing, the director of state security in a region in northeast China bordering North... Read More
Black Flower Release with Young-ha Kim

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | 6:00 PM
Join literary lion Young-ha Kim as he discusses the release of Black Flower. This powerful drama creates fiction from a little-known historical moment when a thousand Koreans flee war and the loss of their nation before colonial annexation. The travelers endure harsh seas for the promise of land in Mexico, but soon discover they’ve been sold into indentured servitude. Aboard ship, an orphan, Ijeong, falls in love with the daughter of a noble; separated when the various haciendados claim their laborers, he vows... Read More

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