List of RAS Lectures (2001-2020)

2020 RAS Lectures

January 7, Hungarian Ambassordor – Mozes Csoma “North Korean students in the Hungarian revolution and freedom fight in 1956”
January 21, Yi Song-mi “Art and Culture during the reign of King Sejong (r. 1418-1450) of the Joseon Dynasty”
February 11, James D. Hillmer “Punishing the traitor, producing the citizen’: South Korean prison reform 1945-61”
April 7, Geoffrey Cain “SAMSUNG RISING” (online)
April 21, In-Souk Cho “Practicing Korean Traditional Archery” (online)
May 12, Paul Courtright “Witnessing Gwangju” (online)
May 26, Henny Savenije “Hendrick Hamel: how I became interested and did the research on the crew who stayed 13 years in Koreaa in the 17th century” (online)
June 9, Jocelyn Clark “The Aesthetics of Korean Traditional Music” (online)
June 23, Cedarbough T. Saeji “The Rise of the K-pop Adjacent Industries” (online)
July 7, Joey Rositano “Jeju Island’s Haenyeo” (online)
July 14, Joseph Juhn “Exploring Korean Diaspora through Korean Cubans” (online)
September 8, Taewoong Lee “Finding common ground: Reconstructing contemporary Korean history with archival footage” (online)
September 22, Simon Cockerell “Tourism and Engagement in North Korea: How It Works” (online)
October 13, Dale Quarrington “Korean Temples: The Weird and Wonderful” (online)
October 27, Robert Neff “Ghosts of Seoul” (online)
November 10, Sanko Lewis “Movement Characteristics of Korean Traditional Dance and Martial Arts” (online)
November 24, Mark E. Caprio “Willis Bird Flies into Seoul” (online)
December 8, Brother Anthony “2011-2020: The President Is a Prolific Translator” (online)

2019 RAS Lectures

January 15, Bridget Martin “Korea’s Post-American Landscapes”
January 29, Matt VanVolkenburg “Missionaries, GIs, English teachers, and other Folk Devils”
February 19, Clink Work “Shifting Hierarchy: Carter’s Korea Troop Withdrawal”
February 26, Ksenia Chizhova “Korean Letters from Family to National Archives”
March 12, Noh, Hee-Jik “Korean Avalokitesvara Painting”
March 26, YongGu Suh “The Next 30 Years: Baby Boomers vs. Millennial Generation”
April 16, Jennifer Flinn “Sex in the Kitchen: Gender and cooking media in contemporary Korea”
April 23, Robert Neff “An American Gold Miner in 19th Century Korea”
May 14, Young-ok Ahn “From Shanghai through the Korean War, a personal journey”
May 21, Robert Fouser “Moving toward Korean as a “Cultural Experience Language””
June 18, Steven Capener “How Korea Created and then Destroyed the Martial Sport of Taekwondo”
June 25, Peter Bartholomew “Korea during the 1880’s through 1910: Modernisation and Reforms”
July 2, Kathryn Weathersby “The 1956 Crisis and the Making of North Korean Despotism”
July 16, Cedar Bough T Saeji “Imagining Korean Spaces: Authenticity through Visual Koreanness in Korean Popular Music Videos”
July 23, Charlotte Horlyck “Charles Lang Freer’s Collecting of Korean Art in the Early 120th Century”
August 27, Robert Winstanley-Chesters “Vibrant Matters: Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours”
September 3, Yong-shik Kim “50 years of Chollipo Arboretum Foundation: Past and Future Perspectives”
September 24, Christy Gavitt “Reflections on Providing Humanitarian Aid in North Korea and other Authoritarian Settings”
October 11, Lee Sang-Oak “Ingenious Designer Sejong: Hidden Code Used in Designing Hangeul”
October 22, David Mason “Buddhism that Protects the Nation: The Hoguk Bulgyo Tradition”
November 12, Moira Saltzman “Jejueo, Korea’s endangered language”
November 19, Todd Henry “Weddings without Marriage: Same-Sex Love across South Korean History”
December 17, Darcy Paquet “Adventures in Making English Subtitles for Korean Films”

2018 RAS Lectures

January 9, Ned Forney “The Hungnam evacuation”
January 23 Suk Jihoon “Making Records of All Kinds of Korean Music, 1906: The Earliest Korean Musical Recordings and Their Historical Significance.”
February 6 Maija Devine “Asian Beliefs: How Chinese Zodiac Signs Affect Women”
February 27 Henny Savenije “Understanding the Importance of Classifying Old Maps of Korea”
March 13 Michael Devine “The Korean War Remembered: An international perspective”
March 27 Matt VanVolkenburg “The Suppression of Youth Culture in 1970s South Korea”
April 10 David Kendall “Cropping Korea: Shifting National Characters on Display at Changgyeong-gung, -won, – Palace, – Zoo, -gung”
April 24 Kathryn Weathersby “Amazing Aftermath of Seoul 1988 Olympics”
May 8 Robert Fouser “Changing Attitudes toward Korean Language Education in Japan”
May 29 Chelle Jones “LesBiTrans Migrant Life in South Korea”
June 5 John Lee “The Green Hills, Reconsidered: Korea’s Environmental History in World-Historical Perspective.”
June 28 Doohee Chung “Techniques Used in Royal Portraiture During the Late Joseon Dynasty”
July 3 Andray Abrahamian “Myanmar and North Korea: Divergent Paths”
July 19 David Shuster “Virtuous and Sexy: Making National Subjects in 1960s North Korea”
July 24 Miliann Kang “What Are the Challenges Confronting Working Mothers in South Korea? Negotiating Gender, Work and Family Issues”
September 3 Mark Peterson “Rewriting Korean History: How Korea got its History Wrong”
September 18 Michael Hope “The Korean Peninsula and the Mongol Empire in Comparative Perspective”
October 16 Bonnie Tilland “Bring Out the “Passion Crews”: Youth Volunteer Culture at the PyeongChang Olympics”
October 30 Ian Henderson “Korea’s Extreme Metal Underground”
November 13 David Tizzard “North Korea’s Diplomatic Relations with Britain”
November 28 Ahn Young-Ok “The Amazing Story of Korea’s Industrial Development”
December 11 Michael Hay “Working a Dozen Years in Pyongyang”

2017 RAS Lectures

January 10, Andrew Salmon “The Korean War: Who Won? Who Lost? Who Cares?”
January 24, Robert Neff “Ghostly Encounters of Modern Korea”
February 7, Se-Wong Koo “The Meaning of Park Geun-hye: South Korean Democracy at the Crossroads”
February 28, Kim Dong-Jin “Homer B. Hulbert, Hidden Hero of Korea and Pride of America”
March 14, Kathryn Weathersby “The Joint Communiqué of July 4, 1972: Korea’s First Agreement on Unification: What was behind it?”
March 28, Robert Fouser “The 386 Generation and the Quest for the “Good Country””
April 11, Michael Breen “Public Sentiment and its Place in Modern Korea”
April 25, Adrian Buzo “Do we learn nothing from writing history? Ten reflections after writing a modern history of the two Koreas”
May 10, Christian Barde “Seoul Global City in a pan-organizational environment”
May 23, Yi Song-Mi “Korean Art in East Asian Contexts”
June 7, David Fields “A Mere Scrap of Paper: The 1882 Korean-American Treaty, Syngman Rhee, and the Division of Korea”
June 27, Viktoriya Kim “Re-visiting the 1937 deportation of ethnic Koreans to Central Asia”
July 11, Eugene Y. Park “The Progeny of Fallen Royals: The Gaeseong Wang in Joseon Korea”
July 25, Jin Y. Park “Women and Buddhism: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp”
September 12, Andrei Lankov “The cracks in the alliance: the Soviet Union and North Korea in 1955-1960”
September 27, David Straub “Anti-Americanism in Contemporary South Korea”
October 17, Ross King ““I thank Korea for her books:” James Scarth Gale, Korean Literature in hanmun, and Allo-metropolitan Missionary Orientalism”
November 1, William Mako “IMF 20 years”
November 14, Daniel S. Oh “Remembering Yongsan Garrison: An Urban Memory Archive Project”
November 28, David Mason “The Dragon King”
December 5, Woo-seok Kong “The Korean Red Pine: a companion from cradle to grave”
December 19, Brian Myers “North Korea’s Unification Drive”

2016 RAS Lectures

January 5, Hal Swindall: Not Just Fast Food Anymore: the Increase of French Restaurants in Korea Since 2000
January 19, Elizabeth Cohen: Seoul’s Digital Media City
February 2, Jacco Zwetsloot: Glimpses of Korea Under American Occupation
February 16, Emanuel Pastreich: A Tale of Two Cities: The Struggle Between Gangnam and Gangbuk from the founding of Seoul to the Present
March 8, Peter Bartholomew: Catastrophic Losses of Korean Architectural Heritage
March 22, Milan Lajciak: Slovakia transformation experience from communism to democracy and market economy – lessons to be learnt for future Korea unification process.
April 12, Sim Woo-kyung: Korean Garden Cultures: Longing for the Immortal
April 26, David Mason: Solitary Sage: The Profound Life and Legacy of Korea’s “Go-un” Choi Chi-won
May 10, John Frankl: Moving beyond Makgeolli: Selected Observations on Traditional Korean Alcohol
May 24, Jacob Reidhead: Politics in the Trenches: A Field Report from the 20th National Assembly Election
May 31, Michael Spavor: Exploring the Culture, History, and People of China’s “Third Korea” – the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
June 7, Andrei Lankov: How did North Korea’s rich and powerful live under Kim Il Song, how do they live now?
June 21, Laura Kendall & Dr Yang: God Pictures: Korean Shaman Paintings
June 28, Leslie Song: A Conversation With the Iconic K.W. (Kyung Won) Lee: Return of a Prodigal Son to the Land of Everlasting Hahn
July 12, Judith A Cherry: Building Sandcastles in Seoul: Socio-cultural Barriers to Doing Business in South Korea
July 19, Norman Thorpe. Pictures from the Past – the charm and revelations of historic Korean postcards
September 13, Jeong Ho-Seung and Brother Anthony: Meeting a Korean Poet: Jeong Ho-Seung
September 20, Maija Devine: The Comfort Women of WWII
October 11, Alastair Gale: South Korea’s Lost Decade
October 25, Pierre-Emmanuel Roux: The Foreign Disturbance of 1866
November 8, A conversation with Krys Lee, author of “How I Became a North Korean”
November 22, Andy Tebay and Nikola Medimorec: From the First Tram to Korea’s Modern Day Transport System
December 13, Byung Joon Jung and Vladimir Hlasny: Paradise lost of two Korean Americans: Alice Hyun and Wellington Chung, crushed by cold war regimes

2015 RAS Lectures

January 13, Harold Swindall “Mural of Mystery: the Amitabha Buddha Triad at Muwi-sa”
January 27, Dr. Ra Jongyil “The Portrait of a Terrorist”
February 10, Michael Hurt “The Visual Geography of the New Korea”
February 24, James Pearson “Won for the money: How capitalism is changing North Korea”
March 10, Robert Newlin “Korea’s Birds: Portraits in Place”
March 24, Dr. Victor K. Teplyakov “Reforestation in Korea: Dramatic Success under Park Chung-hee and Current Efforts in the DPRK”
April 14, Benjamin Joinau “Virtuous Women and Depraved Females: The Image of Women in North Korean Cinema”
April 28, Hwang In-Hee & Kim Jaebum “Royal tombs of Joseon”
May 6, David Mason “National Master Doseon and his Pungsu-jiri Theory”
May 26, Dr. Yi Song-Mi “Symbolism and functions of Palace screens of the Joseon Dynasty”
June 9, Andrei Lankov “North Korea: Reforms at last?”
June 23, Dr. Won-Tae Kwon “Understanding regional climate change in Korea:
July 7, Jon Dunbar “Resurrection City: Seoul’s neverending urban renewal process”
July 14, Dal Yong Jin “The Social Mediascape of the New Korean Wave in the Globalized 21st Century”
July 21, Jina Kim “South Korean radio programs in the 1970s: The intriguing turn to Docudramas”
September 8, Robert Neff “American Gold Miners in Joseon Korea”
September 29, Hilary V. Finchum-Sung “Passing Down the Old Songs in Sopori: Grassroots Preservation in a Korean Village”
October 13, Boudewijn Walraven “Heaven and Hell: Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity in Chosŏn Korea”
October 27, German Kim “Korean Book Treasures in Kazakhstan: Legends and Truth”
November 10, Kathryn Weathersby “The Division of Korea: How and Why”
November 24, Frederick Glover “Korean Christian Nationalists and Canadian Missionaries, 1919 – 1945: Voices from the Helen Fraser Macrae Oral History Project”
December 8, Becca Baldwin & Julia Mellor “The Modern Makgeolli Industry: Challenges & Opportunities”

2014 RAS Lectures

January 14 Roger Shepherd “The Baekdu Daegan as One Mountain System”
January 21 Hank Morris “Korea in the Asian Crisis of ‘97-’98: the ‘IMF Crisis in Korea”
February 11 Scott Wightman “A day in the life of the British Ambassador”
February 25 Robert Neff “Joseon Images of Korea”
March 11 Sokeel Park “North Korea: Accelerating Change From the Bottom-up”
March 25 Don Kirk “Bases of Discontent: Okinawa and Jeju”
April 8 Andray Abrahamian “Changes in North Korean Society”
April 22 David Mason “Korea as a Holy Land: the “silent nirvana treasure palace” legacy of Great Master Jajang-yulsa”
May 13 Jaroslav Olsa Jr. “Czechs and Korea, Koreans and Bohemia: more than a century of interactions in photos and documents”
May 27 Andrei Lankov “Emerging large-scale private businesses in North Korea”
June 10 Peter Beck “A (Small) Window on the Two Koreas: Stamps”
June 24 Michael Duffy ““That old crazy Asian war”: the Korean conflict in song”
July 1 In-Souk Cho “Designing Hanok, the Korean Organic House: Contemporary Challenges”
July 15, Michael Robinson “Sassanggye [World of Thought] and the evolution of the Public Sphere in 1950s Korea”
July 29, Liora Sarfati “Representations of Korean Shamanism in the Media”
September 16, Hyonok Kim “Korean Philosophical & Cultural Inspiration reflected in Hyonok Kim’s dance films”
September 30, Henry Em “Seokguram, the Guze Kannon, and the Creation of National Pasts”
October 14, Peter Bartholomew “How Korea became the world’s most important shipbuilding nation”
October 28, Ned Shultz “Koryǒ and Korea Today”
November 11, Andy Salmon “Welcome to the Land of Extremes: An Author Reflects on Writing About Korea”
November 25, Yeonok Jang “The influence of Beijing drum song and Yangzhou xianci on Korean p’ansori”
December 9, Lee Keun-Gwan “Recent Trends in the Return of Cultural Objects to their Countries of Origin: Implications for Korea”
December 16, Jacco Zwetsloot “Dongmyo and Guan Yu worship”

2013 RAS Lectures

January 15 Robert Neff “Letters From Joseon: 19th Century Korea through the Eyes of an American Ambassador’s Wife”
January 22 Sheen Dae-Cheol “Calm and Dynamic: Two Differing Aesthetic Aspects of Korean Traditional Music”
February 12 Kim Dong-jin “Crusader for Korea: Homer B. Hulbert”
February 26 Jacco Sweetsloot “The Long-Forgotten World War 2 Prisoner of War Camps in Korea”
March 12 Peter Bartholomew “The Catastrophic Losses of Korea’s Architectural Heritage from 1910 and Continuing Today”
March 26 Br Anthony “Travellers’ Tales : How the West First Learned about Korea”
April 9 Andrei Lankov “The female face of North Korean capitalism: North Korean gender relations in the post-famine era”
April 23 Emanuel Pastreich “Scholars of the World Discuss Korea’s Future”
May 14 Kenneth Robinson “Pirates and Traders, and Fake Japanese, too: Korean-Japanese Relations from 1392 to 1592”
May 28 David Mason “The Distinctive Characteristics of Korean Buddhism”
June 11 Dr. Tatiana Gabroussenko “Yǒngye kunin and North Korean national identity”
June 18 Jaroslav Olsa jr. “Han Hŭng-su: a multi-talented but forgotten Korean scholar in Europe”
June 25 Wayne Patterson “Christianity, American Missionaries, and Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903-1915”
July 16 Alex Švamberk “Czechoslovak participation in the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission from 1953-58”
September 10 Boudewijn C. A. Walraven “Familiar Faces: the personal nature of shamanic paintings”
September 24 Brian Myers “Red Herring: North Korea’s Juche Myth”
October 8 Michael Kim “Imagining the Dual City in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)”
October 22 Kathryn Weathersby “The Decision to Prolong the Korean War: The Roles of Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung”
November 12 Robert Fouser “Early Western Learners of Korean: What Can They Teach Us?”
November 28 Darcy Paquet “Evaluating Korean Cinema’s Commercial Success”
December 10 Yang Jong-sung “Introduction to Korean Shamanism”
December 17 Jocelyn Clark and friends “Musical evening”

2012 RASKB Lectures

January 27, Professor Emanuel Pastreich (Kyung Hee University) “Park Jiwon’s Short Stories: How a Yangban Uncovered the World of Ordinary People”
January 31, Professor Yi Song-mi (Academy of Korean Studies) “An Introduction to the Joseon Dynasty Uigwe”
February 14, Professor Hijoo Son (Sogang University) “Diasporic Art and Why it Matters in Korea”
February 28, Cho, In-Souk (Principal of DaaRee Architect & Associates) “The HMS House: Hanok Restoration and Adaptive Re-use-The HMS Memorial Museum of Literature”
March 14, Lee Chong-ae (Kristen) (SBS-TV) “Competition Dilemma: Has Korean Competition Reached Its limit?”
March 27, Carolyn K. Koh Choo (Chung-Ang University) “Traditional Korean Porcelain Culture: The Art and Science of Underglaze Painting”
April 10, Prof. Andrei Lankov (Kookmin University) “What does China want in North Korea, and what can be done about this?”
April 24, Prof. Chung Hyung-min (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea) “Confucianism and Traditional Korean Art”
May 8, Peter Beck (Asia Foundation) “South Korea’s Overseas Development Assistance Experience”
May 22, Dae Bong Sunim “Seon (Zen) Meditation and its Benefits”
June 12, Kent Davy “Yankee Knight Errant at the Court of the Emperor Manque: William Franklin Sands and King Gojong in the “Korean Cockpit””
June 26, Dr. Bernhard J. Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation) “Return of the cranes – rural development, biodiversity and organic agriculture in Anbyon, North Gangwon province (North Korea)”
July 10, Prof. Don Baker (University of British Columbia) “Confucianism and Theism:A look at the life and thought of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong”
September 11, Dr. Robert Provine (University of Maryland) “Revolutionaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cylinders: The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Sound Recordings of Korean Music”
September 25, Prof. Kathryn Weathersby (Sungshin Women’s University) “The Decision for War in Korea: Revelations from the Russian Archives”
October 9, Sister Miriam Cousins “Korea’s Responses to AIDS”
October 23, Daisy Y. Kim “Categorizing Migrants: the Making of Multicultural Society in South Korea”
November 20, Prof. Hi-chun Park (Inha University) “Energy Policy in Korea with special attention to Nuclear Energy Policy”
November 27, Roger Shepherd “Mountains of the Baekdu Daegan in North and South Korea”
December 18, Moon Hyun (National Gugak Center) “An Evening of Traditional Korean Music”

2011 RAS-KB Lectures

January 18 Mr. Jacco Zwetsloot “From Northeast of Seoul to Inchon: when Hollywood came to Korea”
January 25 Dr. Sung-Soo Kim “Ham Sok-Hon (1901-1989): A Maverick Thinker and Pacifist”
February 8 Badaksori “Badaksori Performance: Pansori for Modern Life”
February 15 Dr. Charlotte Horlyck “Priests, potters and politicians – a discussion on the collecting of Korean arts in the late 19th and early 20th century”
March 22 Mr. Peter A. Underwood “Korean Business Culture & Managing Intercultural Operations”
April 5 Prof. Peter Korniki “The fruits of vandalism: Early Korean printing in its East Asian context”
April 26 Mr. Charles Goldberg “A Korean Village on the Edge of Modernity:A Retrospective Look”
May 18 Dr. Earl Jackson, Jr. “Before the Wave: Treasures of Korean Classic Cinema”
May 24 Brother Anthony “1911, the RASKB Reborn: a Second Centenary”
June 13 Dr. Michael J. Devine “Harry F. Truman and the Korean War”
June 28 Dr. Robert J. Fouser “Sŏchon: Wandering Seoul’s Last “Untouched” Neighborhood”
July 5 Prof. Gari Pak “Diaspora, Plantation and Independence: A Pictorial and Literary Journey of Early Koreans in Hawai’i”
July 12 Prof. Robert Buswell “Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly”
September 6 Mr. Jacco Zwetsloot “Spy Hunting, Re-writing the Korean War and Sowing Fear of the World: North Korea has “manhwa” too!”
September 27 Fr. Mun-su Park, S.J. “20 Years in Muak-dong — Displacement, Gentrification, Community-building”
October 10 Dr. Heather Willoughby “Constructing Gender in Korean P’ansori”
October 25 Prof. Stephen Epstein “Girls’ Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment and K-pop”
November 8 Mr. Andrew Salmon “Scorched Earth, Black Snow: British and Australian Soldiers in the Invasion of North Korea”
November 22 Mr. Robert D. Neff “Scandals and gossip from Joseon Korea’s past”
December 13 Dr. Jocelyn Clark “A Gayageum Evening with Jocelyn Clark”

2010 RAS-KB Lectures

January 12 Dr. Byeon Gyewon “Traditional Korean Music in Contemporary Society”
January 26 Amb. Martin Uden “The latter days of the Chosun Dynasty seen by foreign observers”
February 9 Dr. Daniel Adams “Won Buddhism in Korea: A New Religious Movement Comes of Age”
February 23 Amb. Hans-Ulrich Seidt “On the Way to Korea: Afghanistan, Bamyan and the Buddhist Tradition”
March 9 Mrs. Sonia Strawn “What Can I Do? Women and the Law in Korea”
March 23 Prof. David A. Mason “The Sacred Sites of Korea: Criteria, Listings and Tourism”
April 13 Prof. Kim, Sung Hong “Contradiction of Seoul’s Urban Architecture”
April 19 Amb. Jaroslav Olsa Jr “RAS Special Event – Story of Czech-Korean Contact”
April 27 Dr. Hilary Finchum-Sung “Accentuating the Visual: Re-imaging Korean Traditional Music”
May 11 Prof. Chaeki Synn “Contesting Identities: Modern Art in Korea”
May 25 Mr. Robert Neff “Superstitions and Perceptions of Early Korean-Western Relations”
June 7 Prof. In-Souk Cho “Appreciating Korean Traditional Architecture”
August 24 Mr. Tim Peters “Adrift and Stateless: Korea’s Forgotten Children”
September 8 Prof. John Seales “Korean Sounds in the World Imagination: Overseas Art Music Engaging with Korean Musical Heritage”
September 14 Dr. Sylvia Braesel “Johann Bolljahn: A multicultural career of a Pomeranian teacher between Europe and East Asia”
September 28 Mr. Andrew Salmon “The Armageddon North of Seoul: The Battle of the Imjin River”
October 12 Brother Anthony “Scholars in Exile or Dead, Monks and Tea : Stories from Old Korea”
October 26 Mr. Robert Neff “Ghosts, demons and the haunting of Korea”
November 9 Dr. Karl Moskowitz “Indicators of Social Change in Korea – Under Japanese Rule 1910-1945”
November 23 Dr. James Lewis “Adam Smith in Korea”
December 7 Dr. Andrei Lankov “The forgotten exiles: a strange story of the Sakhalin island Koreans”

2009 RAS-KB Lectures

January 20 Mr. Simon Cockerell “Experiences in North Korea”
February 10 Dr. John Linton “History of the Southern Presbyterian Church Missionaries in the Southwestern Part of Korea”
February 24 Dr. Kim, Yongdeok “History and Justice – Approaches to the Dokdo Island Issue”
March 10 Mr. Franklin Rausch “The Legitimacy of Force: An Chunggun’s killing of Ito Hirobumi”
March 24 Prof. Werner Sasse “Sosaewon : a Scholar’s Garden”
April 14 Dr. Tony Michell “Stress! Economic and Social Challenges to a Confucian Societyin a Global Economic Crisis”
April 28 Dr. Martina Deuchler “Korea Forty Years Ago: A Nostalgic Slideshow”
May 12 Dr. William Pore “The Inquiring Literatus: Yi Sugwang’s Brushtalks with Phung Khac Khoan in Beijing in 1597”
May 26 Ms. Lee-Ellen Strawn “Protestant Christianity and Korean Women”
June 10 Fr. Bernard Senecal S.J. “The history of and present state of Korean Buddhism”
June 15 Mr. Mike Kim “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and hope in the world’s most repressive country”
June 29 Prof Edward Baker “President Obama and the 6-Party Talks: The Negotiations over Security on the Korean Peninsula”
July 7 Prof. Brian Myers “The Popularity of Kim Jong Il”
August 25 Dr. Dong-choon KIM “The Work of Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Uncovering the Hidden Stories of Korea’s Past”
Sept. 10 Dr. Roald Maliangkay “Untangling the Intangible: Soft Power and Korea’s Cultural Heritage”
Sept. 22 Dr. Rodney Grapes “Beneath our feet: the geology and landforms of the Seoul Metropolitan area”
October 13 Andrei Lankov “How North Korea will look by 2025”
October 27 Brother Anthony “The Korean Way of Tea”
November 10 Aiden Foster-Carter “Not Just Nukes: North Korea’s multiple menaces”
November 23 Donald Kirk “Korea Betrayed – Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine”
Dec. 8, 2009 Peter Bartholomew “Windows to a Lost Culture”

2008 RAS-KB Lectures

January 22 Dr. Lee, Yomee “Hines Wards- His Impact on Racial Attitudes among Koreans”
February 12 Mr. Sung-Goo Kang “Korea’s Experience toward a Transparent Society /K- PACT”
February 26 Prof. B.R. Myers & Mr. Ed Reed “North Korea: Philharmonic Diplomacy”
March 11 Dr. Moon, J Pak “North Korea Today”
March 25 Mr. A. Lin Neumann “Practicing Journalism in a Dual-Language, Dual- Culture Environment”
April 8 Dr. Andrei Lankov “Transformation of Seoul Traffic in the 1940s and 1950s”
April 22 Amb. Victor Wei “Regional Integration: An East-West Comparison”
May 6 Mr. Michael Spavor “Pyongyang through My Eyes: An Up Close and Personal Look Inside North Korea.”
May 20 Mr. Don Clark “Where Do Foreign Missionaries Fit In Korea’s Modem History?”
June 3 Ms. Kollen Park “Familiarizing Yourself with Korean Traditional Music & Dance”
June 17 Dr. Wayne Patterson “Maritime Customs in the 1880s: A New Look at Korea’s Chinese Decade”
July 1 Dr. Ruth Barraclough “Gender & Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class”
Aug. 28 Mr. Walter L. Keats “Korea Divided: Change and Prospects for Reunification”
Sept. 9 Brother Anthony “In Quest of Joan Grigsby”
Sept. 23 Dr. Chae Youn-Jeong “Two or Three Things You want to Know About Korean Cinema: History, Genre, & Authorship”
October 14 Mr. Wayne Kirkbride “Panmunjom: The Realities of a Divided Korea”
October 28 Prof. Chongko Choi “History of the Korean-Jewish Relationship”
November 11 Mr. B.J. Gleason “Along the Yalu – Travels in China while Peeking into North Korea”
November 25 Prof. Gari Keith Ledyard “Kang Wansuk against the Korean State: Women and the Persecution of 1801”
December 9 Mr. Stephen Bradner “The 1960 Revolution”

2007 RAS-KB Lectures

January 9 “Sacred Aspects and Assets of Jiri-san” (Professor David A. Mason)
January 23 “America’s Man in Korea in the 1880s: The Travels and Tribulations of George C. Foulk” (Mr. Samuel Hawley)
February 13 “Child-Race in an Evil World: Understanding North Korea Through its Propaganda” (Prof. Brian Myers)
February 27 “Min Yonghwan (1861-1905): Statesman Diplomat and Patriot” (Prof Michael Finch)
March 13 “Brilliance or Breakdown – The Future of Korea Inc.?” (Based on the book “Diamond Dilemma: Shaping Korea for the 21st Century”) (Mr. Tariq Hussai)
March 27 “Korean Patriot and Pioneering Tea Master: The Venerable Hyodang” (Brother Anthony of Taize (An Sonjae))
April 10 “Yi Kwangsu’s Mujong (The Heartless 1917) and the Origins of Modern Korean” (Prof. Michael Shin)
April 23 “Human rights and North Korean refugees” (Dr. Norbert Vollertsen)
May 8 “The Life of an Eminent Koryo Monk” (Dr. Sem Vermeersch)
May 22 “Politics of Conscription: Militarized Statehood in Postcolonial Korea” (Dr. Vladimir Tikhonov)
June 12 “Korean Reunification and ideology on Christianity and the Juche Idea” (Prof. Don Clark)
June 26 “Elizabeth Keith and Korea” (Prof. Song Young-dahl)
August 27 “The Future of Korea and U.S. Relations and East Asia” (Dr. Yang Sung Chul)
September 11 “The North Koreans in the Borderland: Chinese North East and North Korea from the 1980s to the present” (Dr. Andrei Lankov)
October 9 “Psychonomic trends in Korea: Korean psychological lifestyle from youth generation to pre 386 generation” (Mr. David Richardson)
October 23 “Representation of Korean Peninsula and Cartographic Perception reflected in the Western Maps: From 16th century to 19th century” (Prof. Lee Don-Su)
November 13 “The Baekdu-daegan Expedition” (Prof. David A. Mason Roger Shepherd and Andrew Douch)
November 27 “Korean folk music: from p’ansori to sinawi and sanjo” (Dr. Yeonok Jang)
December 11 “The World of Buddhist Devotional Practice in Silla Korea” (Dr. Richard D. McBride II)

2006 RAS-KB Lectures

January 24 “Lives of Women of the Choson Royal Palace” (Dr. Yi Song-Mi)
February 14 “Life at the American Gold Mines in Korea, 1900-39” (Mr. Robert Neff)
February 28 “A Critical Eye on Traditional Korean Furniture” (Mr. Anthony Banks)
March 14 “Times and Changes of the Korean Restaurant Scene” (Dr. Andrei Lankov)
March 28 “The Initiation and Termination of Korean Immigration to the U.S., 1902-05” (Dr. Wayne K. Patterson)
April 11 “The Tradition of Korean Classical Poetry” (Prof. Kevin O’Rourke)
April 25 “Modern Manifestations of Musok (Shamanism)” (Dr. Anne Hilty)
May 9 “Homer B. Hulbert, Mentor and Advocate of Korea” (Mr. Dong Jin Kim)
May 23 “Xu Jing: A 12th Century Visitor to Korea” (Professor Edward J. Shultz)
June 13 “Sacred Aspects and Assets of Taebaek-san” (Professor David A. Mason)
June 27 “The Formation of the Early Japanese State and Korean-Japanese Relations” (Ambassador Lars Vargo)
August 22 “Confucian Influence on Korean Life” (Prof. Yonung Kwon)
September 12 “Uncertain Journey: North Korean Refugees in China and Beyond” (Mr. Peter Beck)
September 26 “Korea: The California and Klondike of Asia” (Mr Robert Neff)
October 10 “Birds of Korea” (Mr. Nial Moores)
October 24 “Circulating Korea: Alternative Nationalism and the Emerging Cosmopolitan” (Prof. Samuel Collins)
November 14 “Rewriting Korean History” (Prof. In-ho Lee)
November 28 “Possible Selves: Differing Conceptions of Bicultural Identity” (Prof. Ruth H. Chung)
December 12 “The Korean Yangban and the British Gentleman Compared” (Prof. Ji-moon Suh)

2005 RAS-KB Lectures

January 12 “The Sound of Samul-nori” (Mr. Alan Heyman)
January 26 “Syngman Rhee and the ‘Americanization’ of Korea” (Dr. Young Ick Lew)
February 23 “1956: An Aborted North Korean de-Stalinization” (Dr. Andrei Lankov)
March 9 “The Splendor of Traditional Korean Gardens” (Prof. Sim Woo-Kyung)
March 23 “Learning about Korean Ceramics” (Mr. Stuart B. Solomon)
April 13 “Chunhwa: Eroticism in Joseon Dynasty Paintings” (Ms. Park Soo-mee)
April 27 “Photos of Korea As It Was 100 Years Ago” (Prof. Norman Thorpe)
May 11 “Guided Tour of The National Folk Museum” (Dr. Yang Jong-seung and Ms. Lee Ki-won)
May 25 “Living Dangerously in Korea” (Dr. Donald Clark)
June 8 ‘‘History and Development of Korean Martial Arts” (Mr. Andrew Pratt)
June 22 “Research Status of Archaeological Sites of Kaesong” (Prof. Elisabeth Chabanol)
August 24 “A Walk Across Outer Mongolia” (Prof. William Engells)
September 14 “The Great Similarities of Accounting Art Between Kaesong, Korea and Venice, Italy” (Prof. Jun Sung Ho)
September 28 “The Invention of the Korean Alphabet” (Prof. Sang-Oak Lee)
October 11 “To Be or Not to Be: The Military Tradition in Medieval Korea and Japan” (Prof. Edward J. Shultz)
October 24 “The 1.5 Generation Korean American” (Dr. Mary Yu Danico)
November 8 “Covering the Kwangju Insurrection: A Reporter’s Experiences” (Mr. Norman Thorpe)
November 22 “The Slow and Unnoticed Death of North Korean Stalinism” (Dr. Andrei Lankov)
December 13 “Protestantism in Confucian Korea: Its Growth and Historical Meaning” (Prof, Park Chung-Shin)

2004 RAS-KB Lectures

January 14 “Kim Jong-il: Is He a Man We Can Do Business With?” (Mr. Michael Breen)
January 28 “You Are What You Eat: Korean Food, Korean People” (Mr. Andrew Salmon)
February 11 “Traditional Korean Performing Arts” (Ms. Kolleen Park)
February 25 “Port Hamilton (Komundo)” (Mr. Robert Neff)
March 10 “Korean Folk Paintings” (Mr. Kim Man-hee)
March 24 “Generational and Ideological Conflict in Korea” (Dr. Song Ho Keun)
April 14 “For Internationalization of Korean Literature” (Dr. Choi Yearn Hong)
April 28 “Perspectives on Church Growth in Korea” (Dr. Daniel J. Adams)
May 12 “The Historical Development of P’ansori and Contemporary Style” (Dr. Jang Yeonok)
June 9 “Through the Ginkgo’s Prism: Perspectives on Colla–borative Art in Korea” (Prof. A1 Zaraba)
June 23 “Korean Sources and References in Jack London’s The Star Rover” (Dr. Chang Young-Hee)
August 25 “Traditional Korean Music Performance” (Mr. Lee Dong-Myong, Mr. Min Sung-ho, & Mr. Alan Heyman)
September 8 “Feet of Seoulites: Urban Transportation from Streetcar to Subway” (Dr. Andrei Lankov)
September 22 “The Discovery of the First Paekche Capital at Gogal, Hanam City” (Mr. Han Jong Seop)
October 13 “The Autumn Expedition of 1898 to Northern Korea” (Mr. Denis Samsonov)
October 27 “Korean-American Business Encounters in the 1880s” (Mr. Jang Song-Hyon)
November 10 “Korean Buddhism: Its Legacy and Current Status” (Prof. Cho Eunsu)
November 24 “Why Help North Korea? Personal Reflections on a Decade of Humanitarian Aid Work” (Dr. Edward Reed)
December 8 “A Korean ‘Painter with Needles’: The Embroidery of Chung Young Yang” (Mr. Lee Talbot)

2003 RAS-KB Lectures

January 8 “Korean Monk & Shaman Dance’’ (Dr. Lee Seung Hee)
January 22 “HameFs Journal: A Panel Discussion” (Dr. Jeroen P. Lamers, Dr. Lew Young-ik, Dr. Kim Young-duk)
February 12 “Saga of Rafting from Shanghai to Incheon and from Koje to Kyushu” (Prof. Yoon Myeong Chul)
February 26 “Seen Through Its Architecture: Views of Chosun Dynasty Korea” (Part I) (Mr. Peter Bartholomew)
March 12 “Buddhism in Korea” (Part 2) (Dr. Kernaleguen Herve)
March 26 “Westerners & Crimes in the Late Chosun Dynasty” (Mr. Robert Neff)
April 9 ‘‘Contemporary Korean Theatre: Where is it Headed?” (Dr. Richard Nichols)
April 23 “Seen Through Its Architecture: Views of Chosun Dynasty Korea” (Part 2) (Mr. Peter Bartholomew)
May 14 “Rediscovery of the Hamel Trail” (Br. Jean-Paul Buys)
May 28 “Preserving Kaesong for the Future” (Dr. Tony Michell)
June 11 “Birds in the Korean Environment” (Dr. Yoon Moo-Boo)
June 25 “Women in Korean History and Their Art” (Mr. Huh Dong-hwa)
August 27 “Kangwon Province Korean Traditional Music Orchestra Performance’’ (Kim Yerin / Park Su-jin / Jang Yun-jeong)
September 3 “Filial Piety as a Universal Phenomenon of Korean Culture and Society” (Dr. Sergey O. Kurbanov)
September 24 “Chingbirok May Be the Story of Our Times” (Dr. Choi Byonghyon)
October 8 “The Imjin War” (Mr. Samuel Hawley)
October 22 “Religion and the Korean Mind” (Dr. Kim Ai Ra)
November 12 “The Origin of Sericulture and History of Silk Textiles in Korea” (Dr. Sim Yeon Ok)
November 26 “The Activities of Ernst Oppert to Open Korea” (Dr. Sylvia Braesel)
December 10 ‘‘Old Days of Korea through Pictures’’ (Dr. Horace G. Underwood)

2002 RAS-KB Lectures

January 9 A Look At Korean Traditional Music (Ms. Kolleen Park)
January 23 Assessing the Brand: Problems with Int’l Perception of Korea (Mr. Michael Breen)
February 27 King Sejong’s Royal Observatory (Prof. Nha Il-Seong)
March 13 Introducing Chinese & Japanese, a text on Sino-Japanese war in Korea by Portuguese author, Eca de Queiroz.” (Mr. Pedro Vieira de Moura)
March 27 Iconographic Representations of Korean (Judy Van Zile)
April 10 Anti-Americanism in South Korea (Dr. Katharine H.S. Moon)
April 24 The Spirit of Chosun Period Painting (Dr. Kim Chang-soo)
May 8 Going Home – An Oral History of Korean Adoptees Returning to Korea (Ms. Elizabeth Mackie)
May 22 The Mystery of a Seven-Branched-Sword in Search of Japan’s origin (Dr. Kim Young-Duk)
June 26 The Imprints of Confucianism on the Korean Rural Landscape: Cultural Geography (Dr. Je-Hun Ryu)
August 28 Sodo Folksongs Residence of Portuguese Ambassador Fernando Machado11 (Ms.Yu Ji-Sook (National Cultural Asset in Sodo folksongs))
September 11 Korean Birds (Dr. Sooil Kim)
September 25 Early Period of German – Korean Relations (Dr. Sylvia Braesel)
October 9 Korea at the World’s Fairs: Chicago (1893) and Paris (1900) (Mr. Daniel Kane)
October 23 Toegye’s Philosophy : Part II (Dr. Kim Young-Duk)
November 13 Isang Yun – Korean Spirit as Mediator in Germany (Dr. Uwe Schmelter)
November 27 What is Alternative Medicine? How should we apply it to daily life? (Dr. Mison Chun)
December 11 Buddhism in Korea (Dr. Kernaleguen Herve)

2001 RASKB Lectures

January 10 What is Indian Music? (Mr. Chang-Su Kim)
February 14 Stargazing in Stone-Age Korea (Dr. Changbom Park)
February 28 A Tribute to Midang (Br. Anthony of Taize (An Sonjae))
March 14Music as a Political Instrument (Dr. Uwe Schmelter)
March 28Chinese Characters Make Sense (Mr. James C. Whitlock)
April 11 Portuguese & Korean Relations: Historical Sources and Research Trends (Dr. Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha)
April 25 A Visit to Japan’s Awaji Island in Search of Paekche’s Tamnos (Dr. Young-Duk Kim)
May 9 What Kind of Cultural Shock Do Russians Experience South and North Korea (Ms. Tatyana Simbirtseva)
May 23 Kuk Sun Do Danjon Breathing (Prof. Kyung-Taek Yim)
June 13 The Linguistic Disunity of Koguryo & Linguistic Groupings in Prehistoric Northeast Asia (Prof. John Whitman)
June 27 Meso-American Archaeology: Chichen Itza & Balhae (Dr. Heajoo Chung)
August 22 KoreanTraditional Music Performance Music Group “Bagabee”
September 12 Korea Foundation Gallery at the British Museum (Ms. Jane Portal)
September 26 All you need to know about Ullung-do & Tok-do Island (Mr. Min Byung-Seong)
October 10 Controversy Over the New Japanese History Textbooks (Dr. Kim Young Duk)
October 24 Korean Fansori Tradition in Comparative Studies (Dr. Yoojin Chung)
November 14 Seal-Engraving (Mr. Choi Kyu-il)
November 28 Toegye’s Philosoohv (Dr. Kim Young-Duk)
December 12 What Differences to Expect in Korea (Dr. Lee Eun-Pyo)