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Precarious Balancing between an Ally and a Partner: South Korea's Policy toward China and Its Implications for the U.S.

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Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies People Involved: Chong-Wook Chung, Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University Chaired by Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political...

The Park Chung Hee Era: 50 Years after the Coup

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Kim Koo Forum for U.S.-Korea Relations - Co-sponsored by the Asia Center Ezra F. Vogel, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Byung-Kook Kim, Professor of Political Science, Korea University and President, Korea...

Beyond Transitional Justice, Toward Historical Justice: South Korean Efforts at Truth and Justice after Democratization

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Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program People Involved: Young Jo Lee, President, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Republic of Korea) Chaired by David McCann, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean...

After Kim Jong Il: The Korean Peninsula and East Asian Security

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Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, the Korea Institute and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; United States Special...

Will South Korea Survive Shamans, Scandals, and Poisonous Politics?

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Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs, co-sponsored by the Harvard College Korean International Student Association Katharine H.S. Moon Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College; nonresident...

Making 'We the People' in Korea: Foreigners, Histories, Identities

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Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs, co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program, and Harvard-Yenching Institute Sung Ho Kim, Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University; Kim Koo Visiting...

Territorial Disputes in East Asia and the US Responsibility and Role

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Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations Joon-woo Park Koret Fellow, The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard...

Seoul 9-to-5: Creative Governance

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Presented by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School and Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum, Korea Institute, Harvard University Se-Hoon Oh, Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea

Socrates vs. Confucius: An Analysis of South Korea's Implementation of the American Law School Model

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Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program People Involved: Jasper Kim, Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha University (Korea) Chaired by Bill Alford, Henry L. Stimson...

"A Death Warrant for Our Nation": Syngman Rhee and South Korean Opposition to the Armistice, 1951-1954

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Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs Allan R. Millett Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, The University of New Orleans; Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History, The Ohio State...

Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

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The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations – Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago Chaired by Susan J. Pharr. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor...

North Korea, 1995-2015: An Unnoticed Demise of a Stalinist State and the Birth of a Post-Socialist Society

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Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs Co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Andrei Lankov, Professor, Kookmin University Chaired by Carter J. Eckert , Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History...