Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Sheila Smith joined Korea Society Chairman Ambassador Thomas Hubbard for a discussion on the recent challenges to Korea-Japan relations posed by the dispute over Japanese export controls. Amid the growing discord, Smith and Hubbard weigh in on possible offramps and paths forward, as well as the nature of the US role in facilitating discussion among its two Northeast Asia allies. Co-sponsored with the Japan… Read More

66th Anniversary of Signing of Korean War Armistice to be Commemorated Friday, July 26, 2019 at Noon in Battery Park Dozens of U.S. and South Korean Veterans, Council Member Vallone, and Korean Consul General to Attend as Plaque with Updated Casualties Statistics Unveiled JULY 26, 2019 — NEW YORK —A ceremony to honor those who served in the Korean War will take place on Friday, July 26, 2019, at 12… Read More

Ten years since Wonder Girls and BoA became the first Korean artists to appear on Billboard's main U.S. music charts, K-pop is at the forefront of the increasingly globalized U.S. music scene. With BTS undeniably at the top of the music world and Blackpink making K-pop history by performing at Coachella, K-pop is no longer an incidental phenomenon but an integral part of American pop culture of 2019. In this… Read More

The path of becoming an entrepreneur is not an easy one. Sang Lee, CEO of Darc Matter and President of KSE, hears from entrepreneurs and founders who have created a business around their passions and dreams. Robert Lee from Rescuing Leftover Cuisine and Celina Lee from Give One Dream joined the session and shared their experience in turning personal visions into businesses. The session was followed by a happy hour… Read More

Joseph Kim was born and raised in North Korea. At the age of 12, his father died of starvation and he was separated from his mother and sister. In 2006, Joseph escaped North Korea into China. A year later, he was resettled in the United States as a North Korean refugee. Since then, Joseph has shared his story from the TED stage, has published a memoir, "Under the Same Sky,"… Read More

Harvard Medical School Global Surgery Scholar Kee B. Park, M.D. and Korea Foundation-Vrije Universiteit Brussel Korea Chair Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo examined North Korea’s growing injury burden and the regime’s ability to respond. They addressed marketization, affluence, political factors, domestic and international resource mobilization, sanctions impact, and roadmaps for a multistakeholder national system. Trauma Care and North Korea with Kee B. Park and Ramon Pacheco Pardo Thursday, June 20, 2019… Read More