Lecturer: John Everard
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021. / 7:30PM (Seoul)

North Korea – The Conundrum with a Human Face

John Everard, who spent 2006-2008 in North Korea as British Ambassador, will describe the country as seen from the inside, drawing on his personal collection of photographs of North Korea.  He will talk about the everyday life of its people and his experience of being a foreigner in this isolated society.  He will also talk about the challenges that North Korea faces in 2021, including the country’s economic plight and its response to the covid-19 pandemic, and about the threat that North Korea poses to the international community.

John Everard was educated at The Kings School, Chester and at King Edward VI School, Lichfield, before winning an exhibition to Emmanuel College Cambridge where he studied French, German and Chinese. He then attended Beijing University for a year, studying history and economics, as one of only the third group of foreign students allowed into China after the Cultural Revolution. He also holds an MBA from Manchester Business School.

He served in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for twenty-seven years, working in Austria, Bosnia, Chile, and China. He served as Ambassador to Belarus, to Uruguay, and finally to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 2006 to 2008. After his retirement in 2008 he was appointed Pantech Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University from 2010 to 2011, when he wrote a book “Only Beautiful, Please” discussing his experiences of North Korea.   From 2011-2012 he coordinated the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on North Korea. Since 2012, he has written extensively for the media, broadcast and lectured, both on Korean issues and on international affairs generally.

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