March 26th, 2012

Praise for Beyond North Korea

Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security (Shorenstein APARC, 2011) takes a broad, long-term look at the security of South Korea. A recent International Affairs review calls it: "an excellent examination of the dynamism that characterizes contemporary South Korea."

• » Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security
• » International Affairs review (subscription required)

August 16th, 2011

Volume takes multidimensional look at South Korean security

Beyond North Korea, co-edited by Byung Kwan Kim, Gi-Wook Shin, and David Straub, is the first in a new series of policy-related studies on contemporary South Korea sponsored by the Koret Foundation of San Francisco. In this volume, top American and Korean academics and officials offer a fresh and timely perspective on traditional and non-traditional threats to South Korea's security and provide authoritative advice for meeting them. The book is based on research findings from the first Koret conference, Enhancing South Korea's Security: The U.S. Alliance and Beyond, held March 2009.

• » Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security

March 1st, 2011

Annual Koret Conference analyzes North Korea’s future

"North Korea is at a crossroad," said Myung Hwan Yu, a former South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade and a visiting scholar with Stanford's Korean Studies Program (KSP), during the keynote address at the annual Koret Conference, DPRK 2012, held on February 24. The conference, organized by KSP, brought together an international panel of Korea scholars and former government officials to discuss the future global and domestic implications of North Korea's current political situation and social conditions.

• » Stanford Daily: Yu urges end to North Korean nuclear program
• » AFP: Fast progress of N.Korea reactor alarms Seoul: media

February 28th, 2011

Celebrating ten years of Korean studies at Stanford

Gi-Wook Shin came from the University of California, Los Angeles to Stanford University in 2001 to establish a program in Korean studies. "Naturally, I had mixed feelings—of excitement and hope, but also of anxiety and uncertainty," says Shin. "Looking back, I made the right decision." The Stanford Korean Studies Program, today a thriving and vibrant program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, recently held a series of major events to celebrate its tenth anniversary in February 2011. Read more »

March 23rd, 2010

Economic Globalization and U.S.-Korea Relations

Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center hosted an international workshop on South Korean economic affairs on March 18-19 sponsored by Koret Foundation. Leading scholars and former senior officials from Korea and the United States convened to discuss key aspects of economic globalization and Korea's role, from policies and politics to the economic prospects of a unified Korean. As part of the workshop, Ambassador Duk-soo Han gave his talk on "Economic Globalization and U.S.-Korea Relations" for a larger audience from the community and the Bay area on March 18.

• » South Korea and the Global Economy in Transition