Adam Mount, Mira Rapp-Hooper and Ankit Panda discuss the results of a consensus effort of fifteen experts from the US, ROK, Japan, Canada, and UK to develop a strategy toward a North Korea that maintains nukes. They warn that without a major shift in strategy, a nuclear-armed North Korea will expand its ability to aggress against its neighbors, conduct illicit activities around the world, and resist efforts to improve the… Read More

DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021 | The Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series aims to grow thought leadership on Korea for a new generation of US scholars and practitioners. The Society selects a prize winner annually. The recipient receives air, hotel, and $2500 honorarium, and lectures at the Korea Society to members and guests on a designated date. The lecture may take place via Zoom depending on public health considerations. Applicants… Read More

Simultaneity presents an ongoing series based on the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome movement by artist Suh Seung Won (b. 1941), a pioneer of geometric abstraction in Korean contemporary art. Expanding on a career across five decades, Suh’s Simultaneity series explores his continued meditations on the concurrence of time and space, expressed through interactions between geometric forms and the underlying surface. This exhibition primarily shows Suh’s works created between 1970 and the… Read More

AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E shares images of North Korea and its people, in conversation with Society senior director Stephen Noerper.This program enjoys the support of Columbia University's Center for Korean Research (CKR). Photography of North Korea with AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 | 6 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017 Join our membership program… Read More