Dec 21, 2011
Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, chairman of The Korea Society, Charles
Armstrong, professor at Columbia University, Gordon Flake,
executive director of the Mansfield Foundation, and Dr. John Park,
research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, discuss the
foreign-policy implications of the death of Kim Jong Il. The
discussion...
Oct 28, 2011
Host Marja Vongerichten and producer Eric Rhee visited The Korea
Society on May 3rd, 2011 to discuss the making of
The Kimchi Chronicles,
a 13-episode travel and food documentary airing on PBS. The
discussion was moderated by David Kim, a film director and
co-founder of the Korean American Film Festival...
Sep 23, 2011
On July 21st, 2011,
Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, chairman of The Korea Society,
moderated a discussion with William Rhodes about his new
book, “Banker to the World.” William Rhodes is a retired senior
vice chairman and senior international officer of Citigroup and
Citibank, president and CEO of William Rhodes
Global...
Sep 16, 2011
On March 24th, 2011, Jin
Young Choi, professor of American literature (emeritus) at
Chung-Ang University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, spoke with noted South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin about
the English translation of Shin’s novel, "Please Look After Mom,"
an “Amazon Best Book of the...
Jul 29, 2011
On July 19th, 2011, United States Ambassador to the Republic of
Korea Kathleen Stephens delivered the keynote address at The Korea
Society’s 2011 Annual Dinner in New York City. She spoke about the
“better than ever” relationship between Korea and the United
States, the importance of the free trade agreement,...