Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Fall 2006
Tuesday, October 31 - Kim Koo Forum
Fred Cobb
Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired
"My Experiences as a Teacher to Prisoners on Koje-do during the Korean War"
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12 noon, Sandwich lunch provided
Tuesday, October 31 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute and the Kennedy School Korea Caucus and Belfer Center
Young Jin Choi [bio]
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
"Northeast Asia in the 21st Century"
5 p.m., at the Kennedy School, Littauer Building Fourth Floor, Malkin Penthouse
Wednesday, November 1 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies, and International
Legal Studies
Hyo-Je Cho
Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor of Human Rights and Civil Society Studies, SungKongHoe University in
Seoul, Korea
"North Korea, Nuclear Bombs, and Tension in the Korean
Peninsula: Implications for the Human Rights Movement in
South Korea"
12:30-1:30 p.m., Pound Hall 419, Harvard Law School
Tuesday, November 7 - Kim Koo Forum
Ken Quinones
Professor of Korean Studies at Akita International University, Japan
"The Six Party Talks – Has Diplomacy Failed? The Role of an Unofficial Back Channel Between Pyongyang and Washington, D.C."
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12 noon, Sandwich lunch provided.
Tuesday, November 14 - Kim Koo Forum Special Series on International Relations of East Asia - Co-sponsored by the the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the WCFIA U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar
Charles L. Pritchard
President, Korea Economic Institute, and Ambassador and former Special Envoy for Negotiations to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Akitaka Saiki
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.
"North Korea's Nuclear Gamble"
NOTE: Location changed to CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room, S020, Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge Street, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Spring 2007
Monday, February 12 - J.F. Kennedy Jr. Forum - Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School and the Harvard Asia Center
Mme. Park Geun Hye
Member of National Assembly, Former Chairperson of the Grand National Party, Rep. of Korea
"Korea in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects"
J.F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, 6 p.m. [Press Release]
Friday, February 16 - Special Event - Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute and the KSG International Negotiation Club
"Hallyu (Korean Wave) in Asia: A Dialogue"
Jung-Sook Park
Media Professional, Actress, Visiting Fellow, Columbia University
Jin-Young Park
Music and Film Manager and Producer
Moderator: Carter J. Eckert. Panelists: David Leheny, Eileen Chow, Ian Condry, David R. McCann
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Thursday, March 15 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Keiji Nakatsuji
Professor of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and
Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
"Prime Minister in Command: Koizumi and the North Korean Abduction Question"
CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), 1737 Cambridge Street, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Monday, April 2 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center
Liselotte Odgaard
Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center; Aarhus University, Denmark
"Chinese Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia: Japan, Korea and Taiwan"
Discussant: Robert Ross, Boston College
CGIS South, Seminar Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, 12:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24 - Kim Koo Forum
Kathleen Stephens
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
"U.S.-Korea Relations: The 2007 Agenda"
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 16 - Kim Koo Forum
Evans Revere
President, Korea Society
"The Six-Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programs: Problems and Prospects"
CGIS South, Porte Seminar Room (S250), 2nd floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, 4 p.m.
