Public Lectures & Colloquia Archive

Symposium on: "The Challenges of Reconciliation and Reform in Korea"

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
6:30 PM: Welcome Reception, UCLA Faculty Center, Courtyard
Remarks;
John Duncan, Director, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA
Joseph A.B. Winder, President, Korea Economic Institute of America

Thursday, October 25, 2001
8:30 AM: Continental Breakfast

8:50 AM: Welcoming Remarks by:
Albert Carnesale, UCLA Chancellor
Jong-chul Lim, Korea Council of Economic and Social Research Institutes

9:00 AM: Panel I: "Sustaining Inter-Korean Reconciliation: North-South Cooperation"
Moderator: Tom Plate, UCLA
Presenters:
Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University
Kyung-ae Park, University of British Columbia
Discussants:
Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Embassy of Sweden
Timothy Savage, Nautilus Institute
John Merrill, U.S. State Department

10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM Panel II: "Supporting Inter-Korean Reconciliation: The Role of the United States and the Major Powers"
Moderator: Edward Chang, UC Riverside
Presenters:
Chae-jin Lee, Claremont College
Tong-hwan Park, Northwestern University/UC Irvine
Discussants:
Father John Daly, Loyola Marymount University
Balbina Hwang, Heritage Foundation
Daniel Pinkston, Monterey Institute of International Studies

1:30 PM Panel III: "Redefining the Korean Economic Model in the Information Technology Age"
Moderator: Timothy Lim, California State University, Los Angeles
Presenters:
Ku-hyun Jung, Yonsei University
Lawrence Krause, UC San Diego
Discussants:
Martin Sours, Thunderbird-American Graduate School of Int. Mgt.
Robert Myers, Hoover Institution

3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM Panel IV: "Crafting a New Approach to Labor Market Flexibility and Social Welfare Policy in Korea"
Moderator: Gi-wook Shin, Stanford University
Presenters:Hagen Koo, University of Hawaii
Won-sun Park, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
Discussants:
Young-nahn Baek, UCLA
Sun-hyuk Kim, University of Southern California

Friday, October 26, 2001
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Panel V: "Deepening Korea's Trade and Investment Linkages in the Asia-Pacific"
Moderator: Gregory Treverton, Rand Corporation
Presenters:
Benjamin Goodrich, Institute for International Economics
Wook Chae, KIEP
Discussants:
Robert Dekle, USC
Bernard Gordon, University of New Hampshire
Jane Skanderup, Pacific Forum-CSIS

10:30 AM Roundtable "Summation and Discussion"
Presenters:
Sung-joo Han, Korea University
Douglas Paal, Asia-Pacific Policy Center

UCLA Faculty Center, California Room

Public Lecture: "The First Encounter of the West: The Korean Exhibition at the World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893"
Prof. Youngna Kim - Seoul National University and research associate at Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard University
275 Dodd Hall

Public Lecture: "100 Years of Korean American Methodism"
Prof. Chan-Hie Kim - Claremont School of Theology
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "North Korean Reforms by Kim Jong Il"
Prof. Dae-Sook Suh, University of Hawaii
10383 Bunche Hall

Conference: "Japanese Crimes Against Humanity: Sexual Slavery and Forced Labor"

Public Lecture: "Paintings After Ancient Masters in Three Countries, China, Korea, and Japan"
Prof. Jung-hee Han - Hongik University and visiting scholar at Princeton University
275 Dodd Hall

Premier Screening of a Documentary: "Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Cummunity"
Introduction by Prof. Michael Bourdaghs, UCLA
Roundtable Discussion featuring the filmmakers:
Prof. Tim Tangherlini, UCLA
Prof. Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington
314 Royce Hall

International Workshop on Globalization of Korean Studies
306 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "On the resemblance of the philosophic paradigm between Jeong Dasan and Tianzhu Shiyi"
Prof. Young-bae Song - Seoul National University and visiting scholar at UC San Diego
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "An Early Analysis of 2002 Korean Presidential Election"
Prof. Peter Ahn - Sejong University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "A Theory of Regional Voting: Democratization and Regional Voting in South Korea"
To access the paper for this talk, please click here.
Mr. Woojin Moon - Department of Political Science, UCLA
4355C Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Industrialization and Social Changes in Korea: the Emergence of Neofamilism"
Prof. Yong-Chool Ha - Seoul National University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Issues in Conflict Between Tangunists and Korean Christians"
Prof. Mahn Yol Yi - Sookmyung Women's University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "East Asia Bound Up, Tied Up, and Buried: How Country Studies Balkanized an Intellectual Field"
Prof. Bruce Cumings - University of Chicago
306 Royce Hall

Public Performance: Special Gayageum (12-String Zither) Performance
Dr. Yeonok Jang
306 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "P'ungryu-do in Korean History: A Christian Theological Perspective"
Prof. Tongshik Ryu
243 Royce Hall

Public Symposium on Korean Catholicism
Prof. Don Baker - University of British Columbia
"Persuasion and Coercion: Catholic Strategies in the Fight for Religious Freedom in Confucian Korea"
Prof. Kwang Cho - Korea University
"Early Christian life & Catholic persecution of 1801 in Korea"
Respondent: Prof. Wi Jo Kang, Luce Distinguished Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Roots and Fruits of Korean Christianity"
Prof. Synman Rhee - Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
243 Royce Hall

International Conference: "Korean Christianity in Global Context"

Panel I: Rise of Christianity in Korea
Presenters:
Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak, Boston University, USA:
"Chinese Tracts and the Early Korean Protestant Church"
Dr. Donald Baker, University of British Columbia, Canada:
"Saving Race: Two Centuries of Competition between Catholics and Protestants for the Souls of Korea"
Dr. Timothy S. Lee, UCLA, USA:
"Beleaguered Success: Korean Evangelicalism in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century"

Panel II: Christians, North Korea, and Reunification of Korea
Presenters:
Dr. Mahn-yol Yi, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea:
"Reunification Movement of Korean Christians"
Dr. Wi Jo Kang, UCLA, USA:
"A Korean Theology and Praxis of Reconciliation: Global Implications"
Dr. Stephen W. Linton, Eugene Bell Foundation, USA:
"Religion and Civil Religion in North Korea"

Panel III: Christian Women and Interreligious Dialogue in Korea
Presenters:
Dr. Kangnam Oh, University of Regina, Canada:
"The Christian-Buddhist Dialogue in Korea: A Global Perspective"
Dr. Chae Ok Chun, Ewha Women's University, Korea:
"Rediscovering Ewha Mission: Its Effects on Korean churches"

Panel IV: Korean Christianity in Diasporas
Presenters:
Dr. Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, USA:
"The Beloved Community: The Lived Religion of Korean American Christians"
Dr. Gil Soo Han, Monash University, Australia:

Panel V: Summation and Discussion

UCLA Faculty Center

Public Lecture: "Reflections on Post-democratization Korea"
Prof. Woojin Yang - Hanshin University and visiting scholar at Boston University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Korean Christianity in Second half of the 20th century and its prospects in the 21st century"
Prof. Wijo Kang - Luce Distinguished Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Newly Discovered Manuscripts of Shon Chin T'ae"
Prof. Kwang Sik Choe - Department of Korean History, Korea University
243 Royce Hall
*Please note: This lecture will be in Korean

Public Program: Reading and Discussion
Dr. Bruce Fulton - University of British Columbia
Mr. Inho Ch'oe - prominent author
Ms. Chonghui O - prominent author
306 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "On Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Northeast Asia"
Prof. Seonbok Yi - Seoul National University and visiting scholar at Harvard University
A222 Fowler Museum

Public Lecture: "Korea's Moses: An Ch'angho and the Colonial Diaspora"
Dr. Jacqueline Pak - Luce Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA
Special Guest: Dr. Sang Chang, President of Ewha Womans University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Features of Premodern Korean Art in Comparison with China, Japan and the West"
Prof. Jang-Sup Cha - Samchok National University and visiting scholar at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Lives Deeply Saturated with Militarism: Analyzing Gendered and Militarized Culture in South Korea"
Dr. Insook Kwon - Clark University
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Identity Shift and the Logic of Representation in the Student-Labor Alliance: Wijang ch'wiop (illegal employment) and the 'Counterpublic'"
Dr. Namhee Lee - University of Chicago
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery -- Its Aims and Historical Meaning"
Ms. Yayori Matsui - Prominent Journalist/Editor
314 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "The Missionaries and the Korean 1919 Independence Movement"
Prof. Samuel Moffett - Princeton University
243 Royce Hall

Public Program: Symposium on "Protestantism in Korean and Korean-American Histories"

Presider: Timothy S. Lee, University of Chicago
Presenters:
Albert Park, University of Chicago:
"Visions of the Nation: Shin Heung-Woo and the YMCA Rural Movement, 1926-1939."
Paul Chang, UCLA:
"Protestant Theology and Praxis During the Yushin Era"
Il-Koo Cho, Claremont Graduate University:
"Healing in the Context of Korean Pentecostalism, 1950s to the Present: Historical and Ethnographic Approaches."
Duk Hee Murabayashi, University of Hawaii:
"The Korean Contribution to Methodism in Hawaii."
Jacqueline Pak, UCLA:
"An Ch'angho: The Presbyterian Genesis of Korean Democracy"
Sung D. Oak, Boston University:
"Shamanistic Tan'gun and Christian Hananim: Protestant Missionaries' Interpretation of the Tan'gun Myth, 1895-1934"
Respondents:
Byong-suh Kim, UCLA/Ehwa Womans University
Stephen Kim, Claremont School of Theology

UCLA Faculty Center in Sierra Conference Room

Public Lecture: "Harmony and Perfection: Medieval Buddhist Art in Korea"
Prof. Young-sook Pak - SOAS, University of London
275 Dodd Hall

Public Lecture: "Spacing Time in Early Korean History: The Systematic Rectification of Anachronisms in the Samguk sagi"

Prof. Jonathan Best
275 Dodd Hall

Public Lecture: "Korean Politics in Transition"
Prof. Hochul Sonn, Sogang University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA
1609 Hershey Hall

Public Program: Reading and Discussion
Mr. Munyol Yi - Novelist, Author of "Our Twisted Hero"
243 Royce Hall

Public Program: Symposium on "Social Movements and Democratization in Korea"

Panel I: Student and Labor Mobilization (1:00-2:45 p.m.)
Moderator: Prof. John Duncan, UCLA
Prof. Hyojoung Kim, University of Washington
"The Politics of Suicide: A strategic use of suicide protest in South Korea, 1970-1997"
Prof. Joon-shik Park, Hallym University
"Recent Changes of Employment Regimes in Korea"
Discussant: Prof. Hochul Sonn, Sogang University

Panel II: Democratic Consolidation (3:00-4:45 p.m.)
Moderator: Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA
Dr. Chang Ho Kim, The Korea Central Daily
"The Decline of Progressive Intellectuals in Korea"
Prof. Chulhee Chung, Chonbuk National University
"Cultural Tradition and Consolidation of Democracy"
Discussant: Prof. Sunhyuk Kim, USC

2343 Public Policy Building

Public Program: Korean women writers' Workshop
Ms. Kyong-suk Shin, Novelist
Ms. Hye-sun Kim, Poet
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Christianity and Stratification in Korea"
Prof. Byong-suh Kim, The Luce Distinguished Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Public Program: Poetry Reading
Mr. Un Ko, Poet
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "What is East Asia Today"
Mr. Un Ko - Poet and visiting scholar at Harvard University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Nationalism or Colonialism: Yi In-song's Local Color"
Dr. Youngna Kim - Seoul National University
275 Dodd Hall

Public Lecture: "Nine Lives in Contemporary Korean Buddhism"
Prof. Jaeryong Shim - Seoul National University and visiting scholar at UC Berkeley
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Cultural and Social Dimensions of the Korean Economic Crisis"
Prof. Dong Ok Park - Catholic University of Korea and visiting scholar at UCLA
11377 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Changchuan Tomb No. 1 and Its North Asia Context"
Prof. Nancy Steinhardt - University of Pennsylvania
275 Dodd Hall

Public Lecture: "State and Civil Society in Korea, 1987-1999"
Prof. Ho Ki Kim - Yonsei University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Negative Polarity Items in Korean (and Japanese)"
Prof. Chungmin Lee - Seoul National University and Visiting Professor at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Fashions and Fissures: Changing Meanings of Clothing in Colonial Korea"
Hyung Gu Lynn - Harvard University
243 Royce Hall

Symposium: "Korea in the New Millennium"

Panel I: Economy and Sociocultural Change
Chair: Prof. Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA
Panelists:
Prof. Carter Eckert, Harvard University
"Change or Plus ça change: Economic Reform Under Kim Dae Jung"
Prof. Michael Robinson, Indiana University
"Whither the Cultural Wars in 21st Century Korea?"

Panel II: Political and International Relations
Chair: Prof. Robert Buswell, UCLA
Panelists:
Prof. Byung Chul Koh, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Politics Under Kim Dae Jung: Change or Continuity?"
Prof. Thomas Plate, UCLA
"Korea, North and South -- and America, Decided and Undecided"

2343 Public Policy Building

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Marginalized Elite in the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812: Competition, Division and Conflict"
Sunjoo Kim - University of Washington
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Political Presence of King Sejo and its Impact to Japan"
Prof. Kimiaki Takahashi - Nagoya University
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Depictions of Ethical Transmission: South Korean Narratives of Formation in the 1970s"
Helen Koh - University of Chicago
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919"
Andre Schmid - University of Toronto
243 Royce Hall

Faculty Research Lecture 2000: "Higher Narratives in Korea"
Prof. Peter H. Lee - University of California at Los Angeles
Freud Playhouse, UCLA Macgowan Hall

Public Lecture
Ms. Helie Lee - writer and producer, author of "Still Life with Rice"
2258A Franz Hall

Conference: "Kwangju After Two Decades: Historical and Comparative Perspectives"

Public Lecture: "The Uibyong Nationalism against the Japanese in Honam Province(1906-1909)"
Prof. Soon Kwon Hong - Dong-A University and visiting scholar at Oklahoma State University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "The Intellectual Tradition of Korean Buddhism: With Focus on the Buddhism of Shilla"
Prof. Doo-Jin Kim - Kookmin University and visiting scholar at UCLA
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "North - South Korea Relations in Transition"
Dr. Yong-Sup Han - Korea National Defense University and visiting fellow at RAND
2258A Franz Hall

Public Lecture: "Revising the Korean War"
Prof. Bruce Cumings - University of Chicago
243 Royce Hall

Workshop: "Discussing the New Korean Cinema"
Mr. Kwang Su Park - prominent film director
11377 Bunche Hall

Faculty Candidate Presentation: "Music and Culture Wars in Colonial Korea"
Prof. Michael Robinson - Indiana University
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "New Findings on Kim Hong-do's Genre Paintings"
Prof. Saehyang Chung - Pohang University of Science and Technology
167 Dodd Hall

Poetry Reading
Dr. Seung-Hee Kim - Visiting Faculty, U.C. Irvine
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "From Thoughts of Privation to Thoughts of Abundance"
Ms. Sungja Choe - Poet
243 Royce Hall

Poetry Reading
Ms. Sungja Choe - Poet
243 Royce Hall

Conference: "The Korean Economy after a year of Crisis and Reform"

• Dr. Wyatt Rory Hume, Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA
• Mr. Hyuck Choi, Minister for Economic Affairs at Korean Embassy in Washington DC
• Prof. Gi-Wook Shin, Professor of Sociology at UCLA
• Prof. Robert Dekle, Professor of Economics at USC
• Dr. Hilton Root, Senior Research Fellow at Milken Institute
• Prof. John Duncan, Professor of Korean History at UCLA
• Mr. Peter Beck, Director of Research and Academic Affairs at Korean Economic Institute in Washington DC
• Prof. Suk-Joon Kim, Professor of Public Administration at Ewha Womans University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

UCLA Faculty Center in Sequoia Conference Room

Public Lecture: "Korean Shaman Cosmology and Actor's Transformation"
Prof. Theresa Kim - SUNY at Stony Brook
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Korea - US Relations in the 21st Century"
Dr. James Laney - President Emeritus, Emory University and US Ambassador to Korea from 1993-1997
UCLA Faculty Center in California Conference Room

Public Lecture: "State Power and the Asian Crisis"
Prof. Linda Weiss - University of Sydney, Australia
UCLA Faculty Center in Pines Room

Public Program: "Social Movements in Contemporary Korea"

"White-Collar Labor Movements and Democratization in Korea"
Dr. Doowon Suh - Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley

"Women Workers Movements"
Prof. Jeong-Lim Nam - Taegu University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

243 Royce Hall

"1999 Korea Caravan: Current Affairs on Korea" - Special Presentation

The Honorable Stephen W. Bosworth - U.S. Ambassador to Korea
The Honorable Hong-Koo Lee - Korean Ambassador to U.S.
Welcoming Remarks: Chancellor Albert Carnesale, UCLA
Moderator: Prof. Robert Buswell, UCLA
Discussant: Prof. Thomas Plate, UCLA

UCLA Faculty Center in California Room

Public Lecture: "Tribute, Sinocentrism and Frontiers: a View from the South of the Yalu"
Prof. Andre Schmid - University of Toronto
243 Royce Hall

Public Lecture: "Exploding Ballads: Pop Music in Korea in the 1990s"
Prof. Keith Howard - SOAS, University of London
1659 Schoenberg Hall, Gamelan Room

Public Lecture: "Korea's Division and Reunification in a Global Context"
Prof. Nak-Chung Paik - Seoul National Univeristy and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University
243 Royce Hall

"Korea Update '99" - Special Presentation

Luncheon keynote address: "Challenges and Opportunities in the Path to Peace on the Korean Peninsula"
His Excellency See-Young Lee - Korean Ambassador to U.N.
Presentation: "Building Consensus for Economic Policy Reform"
Hilton Root, Milken Institute
Presentation: "Social Crisis in South Korea"
Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA

Regal Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave.
Luncheon and Program Fee: $30/members, $35/non-members, $15/students

For further information, please contact the Asia Society by fax (213) 624-0158, phone (213) 624-0945, or e-mail aihsienho@netscape.net

Public Lecture

"Korea's Foreign Language Education Policy Changes in the 1990s: Innovations to Gear the Nation for the 21st Century"
Prof. Oryang Kwon - Seoul National University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

"Topic and Contrastive Topic in Korean"
Prof. Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA

156 Royce Hall

"Korean Cultural Program - Korean Traditional Music and Dance"

1100 Schoenberg Hall

Description: The performance, given by 5 traditional artists, will offer fresh interpretations of traditional Korean music and dance selections

FREE and Open to Public

Public Lecture: "Modern Korean Art: Between Past and Present."
Prof. Youngna Kim - Dept. of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University
11382 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "The Current State of the Korean Economy and Its Role in APEC"

"Korea's Role in the APEC Liberalizing Process"
Prof. Jang-Hee Yoo - Dean of Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Woman's University

"The Path for the Korean Economy in the 21st Century"
Dr. Sung-Hee Jwa - President of the Korea Economic Research Institute

UCLA Faculty Center

-An open reception will follow-

Public Lecture: "Toward a Comprehensive Settlement of the Korean Problem"
Prof. Bruce Cumings - Dept. of History, University of Chicago
4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Modern Korean Culture in Transformation"

"Status Culture and Korea's New Urban Middle Class"
Prof. Denise Lett - University of Washington

"Smalling Families and Transforming Cultures in Modern South Korea"
Prof. Roger Janelli - University of Indiana

9383 Bunche Hall
~Year-end party/dinner begins at 5:00 p.m. in 11382 and 11377 Bunche, Conference Rooms~

Public Lecture: "Women's Consciousness and Issues in Contemporary Korea: Past, Present and Future"
Dr. Bae Yong Lee - Ewha Womans University
9383 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: postponed
Dr. Seung-Soo Han - Member of National Assembly
6275 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: Korean Christianity

"The Liminal Creativity of Marginality: The Vocation of Asian American People"
Prof. Sang Hyun Lee - Princeton Theological Seminary

"Has Christianity Failed in Asia?"
Prof. Samuel Moffett - Princeton Theological Seminary

4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture:"Current Issues in Korean Economic Crisis and Labor"
Young-Gil Kwon - Ex-president of Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (Minju Noch'ong)
1102 Perloff Hall

Public Lecture:"Dirty Workers: Korean Workers' Struggle with Worker Identity"
Prof. Hagen Koo - University of Hawaii
4269 Bunche Hall

Program on "Korea Update-Challenges in 1998"

Prof. Chaibong Hahm - Yonsei University
Dr. Julia Lowell - RAND Corporation
Prof. Gi-Wook Shin - UCLA

• President-Elect Kim Dae Jung's Anticipated National Agenda
• The IMF Bailout, Reforms Process, and Rising Nationalism
• Implications for Northeast Asia
• Prospects for North-South Reunification

- Please RSVP to Asia Society at (213)624-0945

Public Lecture: "Korean Buddhism and Its Impact on Neighboring Traditions"

"Wonch'uk and His Influence in China and Tibet."
Prof. Eun-Su Cho - University of Michigan

"Uich'on's Pilgrimage Reassessed: The Korean Temple in Hang-Chou during the Sung-Yuan Period"
Prof. Chi-chiang Huang - Hobart and William Smith College

4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "The Korean Economy: The End of a Miracle or the Begining of a New Era?"
Dr. Il SaKong - Chairman and CEO of Institute of Global Economics and Former South Korean Minister of Finance
6275 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "The Location of the Korean Nation"
Prof. Hyun - Ok Park, University of Michigan
4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "North Koreans in the Late Choson and Early Modern Eras"
Dr. Kyung Moon Hwang - UC Berkeley
4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "The Gospel as Transformer of Korean Culture?"
Prof. Chai-sik Chung - Boston University
4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Historiography and Politics in Pre-Colonial & Post-Colonial Korea"

"Chong In-bo's Historiography and Politics"
Prof. Han-yong Pak - Korea University

"An Chae-hong's Search for Modernity in Korea's Past"
Prof. Chong-myong Im - Korea University

Discussant: Prof. Henry Em - UCLA

4269 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Rethinking the Rhee and Park Eras"

"Syngman Rhee on the Scale of History: Rethinking the 1950's"
Prof. Young-Ick Lew - Yonsei University

"The Rise and Fall of Korean Authoritarianism"
Prof. Gi-Wook Shin - UCLA

4269 Bunche Hall
~Year-end party/dinner (Korean Food!) begins at 5:00 p.m. in 11377 & 11382 Bunche Conference Rooms.

"Overlapping Colonialism in Late 19th Century Korea"
Prof. Henry Em - UCLA, EALC

"Ch'oe Sunghui: Japan and Korea in One Body"
Mickey Hong - UCLA, EALC

"African American - Korean Conflicts in Los Angeles"
Sung Choi - UCLA, Sociology

"Education and the Construction of a Colonial Identity in 1920's Korea"
Leighanne Yuh - UCLA, EALC

"Nation and Nationalism in Korean Context"
Dr. Dong Choon Kim - Seoul National University and UCLA Visiting Scholar

"Why Talk About Minjok as a Modern Construct"
Prof. Henry Em - UCLA, EALC

"Post-Korean-War Film: Modernity and the Fractured Nation" and a screening of "Obalt'an" ("The Missed Bullet")
Prof. Soyoung Kim - Korean film scholar and critic

"Agricultural Modernization and Income Inequity in Colonial Korea"
Dr. Dae-Hyung Woo - Yonsei University and UCLA Visiting Scholar

"Post-Minjung Cinema: Characterizing Korean Cinema of the 1990's"
Prof. Kyung-Hyun Kim - UCLA Visiting Professor

"Update on the Famine Situation in North Korea"
Rev. Kil Sang Yoon - United Methodist Church's Board of Higher Education and Ministry

"History of Christianity in Korea"
Dr. Timothy Lee - University of Chicago

Public Lecture: "The Korean Media, Today and Tomorrow"
Dr. Chang-Ho Kim - Special Reporter, Korea Central Daily
11382 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Re-Making the People in Post-Liberation North Korea"
Prof. Charles Armstrong - Columbia University
9383 Bunche Hall

Symposium: "Forces of Tradition in Modern Korea"

"Personalistic Ethic and Social Change in Modern Korea"
Prof. Yunshik Chang - University of British Columbia
"Prehistoric Archaeology as Modern Tradition"
Prof. Sarah Nelson - University of Denver
"The Colonial Origins of Korea's Collected (Museum) Past"
Prof. Hyung Il Pai - UC Santa Barbara

UCLA Faculty Center

Public Lecture: "Modernization and Growth of the Korean Protestant Church: A Sociological Approach"
Prof. Byong-suh Kim - Ewha Womans University
1222 Public Policy Building

Public Lecture: "Crisis Construction and Organizational Learning: Capability Building in Catching-up at Hyundai Motor"
Dr. Linsu Kim - Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea and President, Science and Technology Policy Institute
Room B-301, Leon and Toby Gold Hall, Anderson Complex

Symposium: "Assessing Democratic Reform in South Korea"

"Inertial Political Culture and Korean Democracy"
Prof. Chong-Lim Kim - University of Iowa
"Scenarios of Unification and the Future of US-Korean Security Cooperation"
Prof. Byung-joon Ahn - Yonsei University and Georgetown University Visiting Professor
"Adjustment and Affiliation - Labor's Challenge in a Changing Korean Economy"
Prof. Dennis McNamara - Georgetown University
"Dynamics of Gender Politics and Democratic Reform in South Korea"
Prof. Uhn Cho - Dogguk University

UCLA Faculty Center

Public Lecture: "Why do I Write"
Ms. Wanso Pak - woman writer
11382 Bunche Hall

Public Lecture: "Searching for Korean Dialects in Soviet Central Asia"
Prof. Ross King - University of British Columbia
3178 Bunche Hall

Symposium: "Korean Christianity in Transition"

"The Indigenization of Christianity in Korean Confucian Context, with Special Reference to Ancestor Worship"
Prof. Wi Jo Kang - Wartburg Theological Seminary
"Social Change and Christian Universities in Korea"
Prof. Yong-Shin Park - Yonsei University
"Korean Churches in the U.S. : Their Growth and Theological Trends"
Rev. Dr. Seog-Whan Cho - Korean Central United Methodist Church
"Building Bridges not Creating Islands: Finding a Place for Korean American Xers/Millennium Generation in this World"
Charles Kim, Chondosanim - UCLA Korean Bible Study (KBS)
"Korea's legacy: The Spirit of March First"
Mr. David Hyun - UCLA Research Fellow

UCLA J.D. Morgan Center

Conference/Workshop: "Koryo Volume"
Funded by Association for Korean Studies, UCLA Center for Korean Studies

Conference: "Korean Literature and World Literature"
Funded by The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, UCLA Center for Korean Studies

Workshop: "North Korea Project"
Funded by UCLA Center for Korean Studies