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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot with Blaine Harden

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | 6:30 PM
- About the Speaker Title: The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot with Blaine Harden
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- Event Link: <a style="line-height: 1.3em; background-color: transparent;" href="http://www.blaineharden.com/sample-page/"><img width="114" height="150" alt="2015 03 18 great-leader speaker2" src="images/banners/2015/2015_03_18__great-leader__speaker2.png" />Blaine Harden</a> is the author of Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent; A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia; and Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Africa won a PEN American Center citation for first book of nonfiction. Escape from Camp 14 was both a New York Times and an international bestseller published in twenty-seven languages. For 28 years, Blaine worked for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. For four years, he was a local and national correspondent for The New York Times and a writer for the Times Magazine. He has also reported for PBS Frontline, The Economist, Foreign Policy, National Geographic and the Guardian. Journalism awards include the Ernie Pyle Award for coverage of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Nondeadline Writing (stories about Africa), and the Livingston Award for International Reporting (stories about Africa). He lives in Seattle.   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok"><img width="114" height="150" alt="2015 03 18 great-leader speaker" src="images/banners/2015/2015_03_18__great-leader__speaker.png" />Kenneth H. Rowe</a>, aka No Kum Sok, was a teenager in North Korea when he began pretending to love Great Leader Kim Il Sung. It was the late 1940s, Kim was preparing an invasion that would start the Korean War, and No was such a good pretender that he became the youngest jet fighter pilot in North Korea’s air force. On September 21, 1953, he stopped pretending. He landed his Soviet-made MiG-15 at a U.S. air base near Seoul and asked if he could live in America. He was given a $100,000 reward and went on to become a successful aeronautical engineer named Ken Rowe. Now 83, he lives with his wife in Daytona Beach.      
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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... Read More
Jang Jin-Sung: Poet, Spy, Escapee

Monday, February 2, 2015 | 6:30 PM
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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... Read More
The Beauty of Korean Arts and Crafts

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 | 6:30 PM
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Celebrate Korea’s handicrafts and artistic traditions with adoptive parents Debbi Kent and Joan Suwalsky in a talk about their new book, 100 Thimbles in a Box: The Spirit and Beauty of Korean Handicrafts . The authors will share their experiences in researching and writing this beautiful book of nearly 500 photographs illustrating 44 traditional arts, including ceramics, fiber arts, paper, inlay, metal, wood, and painting, which they wrote to help introduce the relatively little-known crafts of Korea to Western... Read More
Ambassador Donald P. Gregg’s Memoir: Pot Shards

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 | 12:00 PM
- About the Speaker Title: Ambassador Donald P. Gregg’s Memoir: Pot Shards
- About the Speaker: 2014-11-05 12:00:00
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- Event Link:   (From New Academia Publishing) Donald Phinney Gregg, born in 1927, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He served in the Army in l945–47, graduated cum laude in philosophy from Williams College in 1951, and immediately joined CIA as a paramilitary officer. He served on Saipan and in Japan (ten years), Burma, Vietnam, and Korea, where he was chief of station. Seconded to the NSC staff at the White House in 1979, Gregg served there and as national security adviser to Vice President George Bush until going to Korea as ambassador in 1989. From 1993 to 2009, Gregg ran the nonprofit Korea Society in New York. He now chairs the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles and made his sixth trip to North Korea in February 2014. Gregg lives in Armonk, New York, with his wife of sixty years, Meg Curry Gregg.      
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- Custom HTML field 2 title:   (From New Academia Publishing) Pot Shards is his memoir. It tells of a philosophy major who graduated from college in 1951 and immediately joined CIA when told, "You'll jump out of airplanes and save the world!" With raucous humor, he describes his parachute training and arctic survival course in Idaho. His book is a window into the Cold War-era CIA, both its failings (twenty years in a Chinese jail for a close friend) and unheralded successes, including Gregg's role in saving the life of Kim Dae-jung, a Korean political dissident who later, as president, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Gregg colorfully describes his tours in Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and South Korea. His four years dealing with the Vietnam War illustrate clearly the difficulties of speaking truth to power with sharp-edged encounters with Robert McNamara, Curtis LeMay, and various generals. Gregg worked effectively against torture when encountered in both Vietnam and Korea. In the White House, Gregg was impressed by Vice President Bush's value as "the rudder on Reagan's sailboat," unseen but imperative. He recounts his travels with Bush to sixty-five countries with both humor and discernment-- Thatcher at the top, Mugabe at the bottom. Gregg served both as CIA station chief in Seoul, 1973-75, and as U.S. ambassador to Korea, 1989-93. He later made more than fifty trips to Seoul as chairman of The Korea Society. Now, as chairman of the Pacific Century Institute, the former diplomat, once feared and disliked by North Korea, has visited that secretive nation six times, as recently as February 2014. Gregg always stresses dialogue over demonization in dealing with the North Koreans.    
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Donald P. Gregg, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea and Chairman Emeritus of The Korea Society, discusses his fascinating new memoir, Pot Shards. The book relates experiences from a career that includes thirty-one years as a CIA operations officer and ten years in the White House, which culminated in an appointment as the National Security Advisor to then-Vice President George H. W. Bush. A reception and book signing will follow the program. Ambassador Donald P. Gregg’s Memoir: Pot... Read More
Without You, There Is No Us

Thursday, October 23, 2014 | 6:30 PM
- About the Speaker Title: Without You, There Is No Us
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- Event Link: Suki Kim is the author of the award-winning novel, The Interpreter. She has been traveling to North Korea as a journalist since 2002, and her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and an Open Society fellowship. Born in Seoul, she lives in New York.   Roger D. Hodge is the editor of the Oxford American and the author of The Mendacity of Hope: Presidential Power, Corporate Money, and the Politics of Corrupt Influence. Hodge's essays have appeared in many publications, including Texas Monthly, the London Review of Books, Popular Science, Men's Journal, and Harper's Magazine, where he was editor in chief. He is writing a book about life in the West Texas borderlands.  
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- Custom HTML field 2 title:   Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields—except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.   Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues—evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves—their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own—at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/207216/without-you-there-is-no-us-by-suki-kim">Without You, There Is No Us </a>offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."  
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Suki Kim, who has written about North Korea for Harper's and The New York Review of Books,discusses Without You, There Is No Us, her fascinating new book which chronicles her six month stay in North Korea, where she taught English to the sons of the North Korean elite at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology during the end of Kim Jong Il’s reign. The book will be available for sale and a reception and book signing will follow. Thursday, October 23, 2014 | 6:30 PM Explorers and Above:... Read More
Ambassador Christopher Hill Book Event: Outpost

Monday, October 20, 2014 | 12:00 AM
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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
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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
- Event Time: 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

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