• Cha, Myung Soo , Cha, Myung Soo
  Professor Cha teaches at the Department of Economics at Yeungnam University. He is author of multiple publications on economic history of Korea. His current research interests include real interest rates in Korea, and tendenciesÊinfluencing capital formation and capital stock.
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 2, 2005

• Changes in the South Korean Agricultural Structure in the 1990's (Summary) , Kuramochi, Kazuo
  This paper uses government statistics to analyze and examine changes in the South Korean agricultural structure in the 1990's.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• Choi, Inbom , Choi, Inbom
  Dr. Inbom Choi is currently the Chief Economist and Advisor to CEO at the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). He is also teaching at the Sogang University as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to his appointment at the FKI, from 1999 to 2002, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE) in Washington, DC. During this period, he was also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and a consultant to the World Bank. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Choi served as Assistant Secretary to the President for Economic Affairs in the Office of the President (Blue House) in Korea. In the Blue House, he also functioned as the Director of International Economic Policy. During 1997-98, he was the APEC Education Foundation’s Managing Director of Grants and Programs, promoting trade and investment liberalization within tthe APEC region. Prior to his appointment at the office of the President, Dr. Choi worked for five years as a research fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), which is a thinktank advising the Korean government on international economic issues. Dr. Choi also worked at the World Bank in 1985-89, and taught at Georgetown University 1982-83.
  www.sogang.ac.kr/~gsis/faculty23.html - March 24, 2005

• Economic Development in North and South Korea , Columbia University
  Examines economic development in North and South Korea from historical and comparative perspectives. The course surveys a general development experience of the two Koreas, and discusses major issues in political economy using the Korean development experiences. Topics include socialist and capitalist economic systems, North (self-reliance) and South (East Asian) Korean development models, origins of communism (North) and capitalism (South), patterns of Korean development, agricultural development in North Korea, impacts of industrialization on state-society relations in South Korea, and the economic crisis in North and South Korea in the 1990s.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Economic History of Korea , Cha, Myung Soo
  Two regime shifts divide the economic history of Korea during the past six centuries into three distinct periods: 1) the period of Malthusian stagnation up to 1910, when Japan annexed Korea; 2) the colonial period from 1910-45, when the country embarked upon modern economic growth; and 3) the post colonial decades, when living standards improved rapidly in South Korea, while North Korea returned to the world of disease and starvation. The dramatic history of living standards in Korea presents one of the most convincing pieces of evidence to show that institutions -- particularly the government -- matter for economic growth. The paper analyzes these period in detail.
  eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=cha.korea - March 3, 2005

• Economoic Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula , Babson, Bradley O.
  There has always been an undercurrent of ambivalence in U.S. attitudes towards economic cooperation with the Democratic Peoples\' Republic of Korea (DPRK). On the one hand, an economically weak DPRK is inherently less capable of waging war and developing weapons of mass destruction than an economically strong DPRK. From this perspective, the economic distress of the 1990\'s clearly has altered the security balance in favor of U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) interests. On the other hand, an economic collapse in DPRK could lead to potentially highly destabilizing developments, including large-scale population movements across borders and the risk of the leadership initiating armed conflict as an act of desperation. Similarly, continuing economic distress could force DPRK to revert to dependence on China and Russia, perpetuating its isolation and inhibiting the creation of a new security architecture for Northeast Asia that better suits the interests of all Big Powers concerned than continuation of the status quo. The author further explores this argument and offers some interesting theories about the US involvement in North Korean development.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Babson.htm - February 24, 2005

• Facts and Myths about Korea's Economic Past , Cha, Myung Soo
  The orthodoxy in South and North Korean historiography states that Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910 wrought havoc on indigenous economic development and started an era of exploitation lasting until 1945. Recent studies show the claim to be based less upon facts than upon Marxist dogma and nationalist sentiment. During the nineteenth century, Korea was not on the verge of modern economic growth, but in demographic and economic decline. Living standards improved and industrialisation occurred in the context of rapid pop-ulation growth during the colonial period due to transfer of capital and advanced technology from Japan.
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 3, 2005

• Free Trade Between Korea and the United States? , Choi, Inbom; Schott, Jeffrey J.
  Free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating in the Asia-Pacific region. For the first time, Korea is pursuing such accords as part of a strategy to restructure its economy and sustain the recovery from its 1997-98 economic crisis. Should it open talks with its largest trading partner, the United States? This study examines the economic and political benefits and challenges of pursuing bilateral FTA negotiations, the impact of a prospective pact on other trading partners, on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, and on the multilateral trading system.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=326 - March 24, 2005

• Korea before 1945 , Cha, Myung Soo
  Korea had suffered a long history of stagnation before Japan colonized and began to modernize the country in 1910.Ê So concluded the Japanese scholars, who pioneered during the colonial era (1910-1945) modern research into Korea’s economic past.Ê Denouncing this picture as a misrepresentation intended to defend the colonial rule, post-colonial historians in both South and North Korea presented a more optimistic view that “sprouts of capitalism” emerged in Korea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Ê Accumulating evidence on living standards indicates neither of the two assertions is entirely correct.Ê The standard of living fell in Korea for at least a century before improving from around 1900.Ê What explains the long swing in the Korean living standards?
  ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~mscha/ - March 3, 2005

• Korea in the World Economy , Il SaKong
  This study examines the factors that have contributed to the \\\"Korean Miracle\\\": an active role by government in managing the economy; an outward-oriented trade policy; market and nonmarket factors, including culture, rapid physical and human capital accumulation rates; and macroeconomic and exchange rate policy, and international borrowing. Despite Korea\\\'s outstanding performance since 1962, the author argues that his country is now at a crucial policy juncture. Competition in the world economy and the welcome movement toward democracy in Korea will require new strategies and political consensus to promote growth and equity. The author provides policy recommendations for how Korea can meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Special attention is focused on Korea\\\'s growing stature in the world economy and the role Korea can play to promote international economic cooperation in Asia and at the global level. He also addresses the question of whether the \\\"Korean model\\\" is relevant to other countries.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=29 - March 24, 2005

• Korean Politics and Economy , Claremont McKenna College
  Compares the political systems and economic policies of South Korea and North Korea. Special attention will be given to an in-depth study of competing ideologies, political leadership, political participation, policy-making processes, military organizations, and economic performance.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - January 19, 2005

• On the Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the ROK (Summary) , Kook, Joong-Ho
  This paper provides an overview of the intergovernmental fiscal relations, or the local public finance adjustment system, in ROK, using a model of this system to examine public finance adjustment and the regional equalization effect.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• The Dynamics of Korean Economic Development , Soon, Cho
  One of Korea\'s most distinguished economists and teachers offers a new and critical appraisal of his country\'s postwar development. Dr. Cho argues that Korea\'s development strategy since 1960 achieved extraordinary growth rates, but it also contributed to structural imbalances that will impede Korea\'s entry into the ranks of the advanced industrial countries unless they are corrected. These structural problems include concentration of economic and political power in large industrial conglomerates, retarded development of small and medium-sized enterprises essential for entrepreneurship and technological innovation, an inadequate private financial services sector, and costly labor strife. Dr. Cho concludes that Korea must undertake a \"great transition\" in order to sustain growth and democratization. He recommends policies to reduce industrial concentration, establish a competitive pricing system (particularly in the financial sector), promote small and medium-sized enterprises, improve labor-management relations, and encourage investment in human capital.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=25 - March 24, 2005

• The Effect of the Financial Crisis on Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in the ROK , Kwon, Oh-kyoung
  This paper analyses the way in which the problems faced in the past by small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the ROK have altered amid the significant changes to the structure of the ROK's economy that have resulted from the financial (sic) experienced by the country.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

• The IMF Crisis and the ROK's Trade (Summary) , Jeong-Guen, Seo
  This is an analysis of South Korea's trade unit surpluses and deficits following the 1997 IMF crisis. This paper may be useful for students and researchers who want a brief overview of the ROK's resulting trade policies.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 29, 2004

• The Korea-United States Economic Relationship , Bergsten, Fred C.; Il SaKong
  In 1996, Korean and US officials, academics, and businessmen met in a frank, closed-door discussion of recent political, economic, and cultural developments affecting their two nations. These discussions came at a critical juncture in Korean-US relations as shifting international conditions have rapidly altered the environment in which both countries must interact. This volume highlights the topics discussed at the Twenty-First Century Council, which focused on Korea’s reform and globalization efforts, Korean-US security ties in a changing regional political environment, and the economic and political consequences of Korean unification.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=30 - March 24, 2005

• The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy , Bergsten, Fred C.; Choi, Inbom
  Koreans living in the United States have generated an increase of about 15 to 20 percent in trade between the United States and Korea. This is one of the surprising conclusions reached in this special report, which, upon the 100th anniversary of the migration of Koreans from their homeland, looks at the impact of the 6 to 7 million people who make up this diaspora on both South Korean and overseas economies. No country in history has ever succeeded in building a developed and high-income economy without participating in the global economy; globalization is imperative for economic success. And one of the largest elements of globalization, in addition to international trade and investment, is migration. In The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy, experts hold up South Korea as one of the most dramatic examples of that experience, having gone from being a poor, underdeveloped country fewer than 40 years ago to becoming a postwar economic success story. This report also looks at South Korea’s role as a regional trading partner and its present and future relations with North Korea.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=365 - March 24, 2005

• The Korean Economy and Its Institutional Environment , Columbia University
  Provides a general overview of the current issues in the Korean economy with an emphasis on institutional perspectives. It surveys issues that Korea is confronting today, including the structure of the financial market and the role of the government, the workings of the labor market, corporate finance and corporate governance, innovation and venture capital, corporate diversification and antitrust, corporate bankruptcy mechanism, and the future of the North Korean economy.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• The ROK Economy at the Starting Line of the 21st Century (summary) , Jonghwan Choi
  While focusing on major macro-economic indicators and trends in major sectors in the ROK economy since the 1990's, this paper considers the economic variables relating to these, as well as various problems and issues in each sector, and attempts to examine the future economic growth path of the ROK.
  www.erina.or.jp/En/Ef/research-f3.htm - September 26, 2004

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• A Study on Local Energy Business Development and Cooperative Measures for the Balanced Development of Local Areas , Kim, Z. O.
  This project tried to examine the basic causes closely, in which forms the detrimental factors in regional balance development using the industrial organizational methodology. Furthermore, we attempted to investigate the energy projects which become non-preference facilities such as Nimby facilities in local government and to relocate them into the friendly relationship to environment. Therefore, we tried to suggest alternative plans to the local government in Korea that they are able to solve the discord structure arising from people¡¯s request for pollution within local government as well as to cooperate the plans between the local governments.
  www.keei.re.kr/web_keei/en_publish.nsf/frame.htm?ReadForm&url=/web_keei/en_publish.nsf/ByallV/9B60AA51B6FC362F49256F8E00421023?OpenDocument - February 9, 2005

• A Study on the Effects of the LIberalization of Oil Prices on Energy Prices and Consumption and Industrial Production Activities , Moon, Y.S.
  It is a very important research topic to evaluate the performance of oil price liberalization on domestic oil product price, oil consumption, and industrial activities. In order to study this topic, we have to understand the background and rationale of the oil price liberalization and how this deregulation is actually affecting the market. Also we need to find out what oil consumer, oil industry and the whole economy actually respond to this policy change. To answer these questions, this research follows the logical step to investigate the impact of international oil price to domestic oil product price, and in turn to the change of oil consumption, and finally to the change of industrial activities. Of course, the various changes of behavior and responses of economic agents themselves are not the sole objective of the oil price deregulation. However oil price liberalization was a shift of regulation regime, it surely had some impact on the behavior of economic agents. We will try to derive policy implications from the understanding on the economic impact of oil price liberalization.
  www.keei.re.kr/web_keei/en_publish.nsf/frame.htm?ReadForm&url=/web_keei/en_publish.nsf/ByallV/D7D377DFC15BCFF149256F8900177406?OpenDocument - February 9, 2005

• Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI) , Government of Korea
  The KEEI was established as a government-affiliated research institute in order to contribute to the national energy policy-making by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on the issues pertaining to energy security.
  www.keei.re.kr/keei/main_eng.html - February 9, 2005

• Korean Penninsula Energy Development Organization , Korean Penninsula Energy Development Organization
  Funded through financial support from member and contributing countries, KEDO was created in March 1995 to advance the implementation of the Agreed Framework between the United States and the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Signed in October 1994, the Agreed Framework secured the DPRK\'s agreement to freeze and ultimately dismantle its existing nuclear program in exchange for, among other things, provision to the DPRK of alternative sources of energy in the form of heavy fuel oil and a modern nuclear power plant that would be built, operated, and regulated in accordance with international standards of safety. Through these activities, KEDO has contributed to improving the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, and to improving the prospects for lasting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and beyond. This website has been designed to provide public with convenient access to comprehensive information on the organization\'s activities.
  www.kedo.org/ - March 23, 2005

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• China and North Korean "Refugees" , McCarthy, Thomas F.
  The author, Thomas F. McCarthy, has traveled frequently to the DPRK as an agricultural development consultant and has worked in Washington, most recently in cooperation with the Atlantic Council's 'Korea in Transition Program.'  McCarthy argues that NGOs have no right to risk the consequences of Chinese or DPRK decisions to prevent people from receiving continued aid because of misdirected efforts to turn their plight into an international political issue.  Instead, these groups could be more effective by supporting World Bank and IMF efforts at development assistance programs.
  69.44.62.160/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/mccarthy_refugees.txt - March 21, 2002

• Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea: Korean Chinese, North Koreans, and Guest Workers , Park, Hyun Ok
  This paper concerns the paradox of democratization in South Korea, whose progression has been entwined with neoliberal capitalism beginning in the 1990s. A particular form of democratization addressed in this paper is the broad-reaching initiatives to transform the relationship between the state and society. Specifically, the initiative to rewrite colonial and cold-war history was examined. This particular initiative is part of an effort to correct a longstanding tendency of previous military regimes that suppressed the resolution of colonial legacies and framed Korean national history within an ideological confrontation of capitalist South Korea and communist North Korea.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20790/ - February 22, 2005

• North Korean Defectors and Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Cooperation , Dong-man, Suh
  The government of China swiftly resolved the recent incident where a group of 25 North Korean asylum seekers rushed into the grounds of the Spanish Embassy in Beijing - apparently out of concern that the defection might have a spillover effect, creating a much more serious situation. Reaching South Korea via a third country seems to have become a common method of defection by North Koreans, as in the case involving the Jang Gil-suh family last year. The issue of North Korean defectors is a political minefield, affecting the trilateral relationship between the two Koreas and China. And the latest defection is likely to trigger NGOs that support North Korean defectors to pressure the Seoul government to double its diplomatic efforts to grant them refugee status.
  69.44.62.160/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/DPRKrefugees.txt - May 7, 2002

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• Ethnology of Korea: Re-Presenting Lives in Contemporary South Korea , University of California, Los Angeles
  Examination of South Korea's contemporary structural positioning, with focus on its dynamic development out of a history of colonialism and war to capitalism; multiple and conflicting linkages of Korean people involving class, gender, family/kinship, and nation.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=ANTHRO+&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• A Country Study: North Korea , The Library of Congress
  A conprehensive overview ofÊpolitical, social, security, and economic situation in theÊcountry. The site can be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in North Korea.
  lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html - March 22, 2005

• AsianInfo , AsianInfo
  AsianInfo.org is devoted to introducing Asian culture, traditions and general information to the world through the internet.Ê The authorsÊbelieve each country in Asia is unique and beautiful with a lot to offer the world.ÊÊAccording to theÊcreators of the site, \"the world needs to be more cognizant of Asia and the internet revolution is the best way to connect globally.Ê\"ÊIt can be a valuable resource for profile
  www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/about_asianinfo.htm - March 22, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies , Far Eastern National University
  The FENU Center for Korean Studies was established in 1999 with the support of Korea Foundation to organize research dealing with the issues of Russian - Korean relations in the Far East. The Center incorporates the leading specialists of the University in history, economics, political science, philology, and archaeology.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=397 - October 4, 2004

• Center for Korean Studies , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The University of Hawai‘i Center for Korean Studies was established in 1972 to support and coordinate the activities of students and faculty with Korea-related teaching and research interests. Now with more than twenty faculty members offering academiccourses and conducting research related to Korea in fields such as Asian studies, dance, economics, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, political science, and sociology, the Center is home to the oldest and largest Korean studies program outside of Korea. The Center for Korean Studies Online also hosts several important resources for Koreanists and others interested in Korea.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/ - February 15, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies , University of California, Berkeley
  The Center for Korean Studies (CKS) is a unit of the Institute of East Asian Studies within International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley. The Center is one of the nation\'s most active academic centers for the study of Korean humanities and social sciences. Our goal is to use the academic resources of the University of California to promote international cultural, economic, and political understanding.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/ - February 17, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley , UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies
  The Center is one of the nation\'s most active academic centers for the study of Korean humanities and social sciences. Our goal is to use the academic resources of the University of California to promote international cultural, economic, and political understanding. This site includes events, faculty bios, courses, visiting scholars, K-12 teaching project, library, publications, Korea links, and a mailing list.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/cks - October 2, 2004

• Choson History , University of Toronto
  This course examines various approaches - economic, social, gender, political, international, and cultural - to the history of Choson Korea.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS373H1 - January 17, 2005

• Contemporary Korea , University of Southern California
  Social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural effects of modernization in contemporary Korea; comparison of contemporary culture with traditional culture.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Contemprorary Korean Culture , University of British Columbia
  An introduction to the literature, drama, music, and art of Korea today. Particular attention will be paid to the continuing influence of traditional themes and forms, as revealed in short stories, novels, films, paintings, dances, and popular songs. This course will adopt an historical approach, tracing the forging of a modern Korean cultural identity under the impact of Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, the division of the peninsula into North and South Korea, and the rapid industrialization of the last three decades.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Culture and Society of Korea , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Early Korean History , University of Toronto
  This course is a survey of issues in early Korean history with particular attention to theuses of and approaches to ancient history in contemporary Korea.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS372H1 - January 17, 2005

• Eberstadt, Nicholas , American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  Eberstadt researches demographics, foreign aid, poverty, infant mortality, health disparities, and economic development. He has written extensively on Korea, East Asia, and countries of the former Soviet Union. His books include "The End of North Korea" and the forthcoming "North Korean Economy".
  www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.62,filter.all/scholar.asp - October 22, 2004

• Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Persuit of Schooling in South Korea , Seth, Michael J.
  This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examination of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, Michael Seth explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society. He also looks at the many problems of the Korean educational system: the focus on entrance examinations, which has tended to reduce education to test preparation; the overheated competition to enter prestigious schools; the enormous financial burden placed on families for costly private tutoring; the inflexibility created by an emphasis on uniformity of standards; and the misuse of education by successive governments for political purposes.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#education_fever - February 15, 2005

• Em, Henry , Em, Henry
  Professor Em teaches courses on Korean history and does research on modern Korean intellectual history, with focus on colonialism, nationalism and historiography. Professor Em\'s most recent article, \"Minjok as a Modern and Democratic Construct,\" appears in Colonial Modernity in Korea, Shin and Robinson, eds. (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999). Currently, he is working on a book on historians and history writing in modern Korea. Ê
  www.umich.edu/%7Eiinet/ksp/facultystaff/em.html - February 17, 2005

• Ethnographic Literature on Korea: Class, Gender & Family , University of Toronto
  This course addresses writing ethnography as a cultural critique through the anthropological literature dealing with Korean women, marriage, gender and class.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS462H1 - January 17, 2005

• Flake, L. Gordon , The Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs
  L. Gordon Flake was appointed Executive Director of the Mansfield Foundation in February 1999. He is a regular contributor on Korea issues in the U.S. and Asian press, and he has traveled to North Korea on four occasions. Mr. Flake has published extensively on policy issues in Asia. He completed his M.A. at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies.
  mansfieldfdn.org/about_fdn/lgflake.htm - October 11, 2004

• Higher College of Korean Studies , Far Eastern National University
  English-language web site of the Higher College of Korean Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=195 - September 30, 2004

• History of Choson Dynasty: Conference Course , Korea Institute
  Reading and discussion of Chosôn society and culture. We will try to understand social and political structures and institutions by examining the daily life of various groups of people from top to bottom.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• History of Korean Religion , University of Toronto
  This course offers a broad overview of Korean religious tradition.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS389Y1 - January 17, 2005

• History of Korean Thought , University of British Columbia
  An examination of Korean religious, philosophical, and scientific thought from the earliest written records to the present day, with particular focus on Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and, in the present century, Christianity. Some attention will also be paid to Taoism in Korea as well as to Korea\'s new religions. Geomancy and Oriental medicine will also be discussed. Emphasis will be on how Korean approaches to the natural and supernatural realms have shaped as well as reflected Korean values, behavior, and self-identity.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Intercultural Institute of California , Intercultural Institute of California
  The Intercultural Institute of California (IIC) is a private, independent, nonprofit organization, offering Korean studies programs for students. The IIC also hosts a special on-going lecture series and online discussions, promotes research, and publishes selected books and articles. The IIC community of scholars and students is committed to collaboratively engaging the culture, art, language, politics and historical legacy of Korea, examining its relevance to the present and envisioning its prospects for the future, to include issues of particular interest to Korean Americans.
  www.iic.edu/Main/frame_About.html - February 21, 2005

• Introduction to Korean Civilization , University of Toronto
  The historical development of the Korean political system and society; philosophical, religious, artistic and literary aspects of its culture. Korea's relationship to Chinese civilization and its role in transmitting civilization to Japan. Films and slides may be used for illustration.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS270Y1 - January 13, 2005

• Introduction to Korean History and Culture , Stanford University
  This course presents a broad survey of Korean historical experiences and cultural forms from antiquity to the present. (It focuses, however, on thenineteenth and twentieth centuries.) Topics for study include, intera alia:mytho-history and archaeology; ancient regional cultural contacts and stateformation; premodern socio-cultural and political-economic structures/dynamics; intellectual and artistic traditions; the tragedies and legacies of colonialism and the Korean War; state-society relations in North and South; diasporic (i.e. Korean-American) experiences and identities; globalization and youth culture; various issues of ethnicity,class, and gender. In an attempt to consider a wide array of historical interpretations and (too often neglected) voices, we will engage these topics through a variety of sources: Primary documents and Secondary academic analytical writings, literature, documentary and feature films,Internet forums, etc.
  ksp.stanford.edu/courses/801/ - January 12, 2005

• Keimyung University , Keimyung University
  Keimyung University was founded in 1954 to provide Christian higher education for the southern part of Korea. Its immediate task was to nurture young minds for the reconstruction of a war-torn country. A sense of dedication  to excellence, whether in scholarship or service, has been the motivating force behind the founders and other dedicated people at Keimyung University. Today, Keimyung University proudly continues to cultivate the minds of future international leaders and experts who can contribute to the world peace and welfare. We constantly develop and renew academic partnerships with foreign institutions in order to enhance our international programs. The University offers unique courses to help foreign students capture the flavor of Korean culture, history, and society and gain practical knowledge of the Korean language, economy, and business.
  www.kmu.ac.kr/e_kmu/index.shtml - February 15, 2005

• Korea Country Analysis , American Military University
  Instead of examining just North or South Korea, this course will examine the Korean peninsula as a whole, as one cannot truly understand the policy of either North or South Korea without understanding both.
  apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=IN - September 21, 2004

• Korea Institute , Harvard University
  The Korea Institute is Harvard University's only non-departmental entity for the support and development of Korean Studies at Harvard. Originally established in 1981 as part of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, it became a completely autonomous organization in 1993.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/index.html - February 15, 2005

• Korea Studies Program , University of Washington
  The University of Washington maintains one of the oldest programs in the United States providing undergraduate and graduate training in Korean studies in a variety of disciplines. Courses are offered in Korean language, literature, history, social organization, and politics. The language program consists of three years of modern language and advanced reading. The history courses cover the full range of the Korean experience, from the origins of the Korean people in the archaeological record to contemporary times. Undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and society cover the period under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the liberation of Korea after 1945, the Korean War, and the political, economic, social, and cultural development of both South Korea and North Korea. Graduate seminars provide opportunities for research in Korean and other non-Western languages on a variety of topics in the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of the country. Regular course offerings are supplemented by visiting faculty from political science, economics and economic development, law, folklore, and literature. The objective of the program is to provide students at the BA and MA degree levels with a broad background for use in a variety of professions.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/easc/KoreaStudiesProgram.html - February 15, 2005

• Korea Web , Hoffman, Frank
  A very extensive database on various issues related to Korea and Korean studies.
  koreaweb.ws - February 16, 2005

• Korean Cinema , Korean Institute
  An introduction to the world of Korean cinema focusing on the diverse aesthetic strategies of prominent Korean filmmakers. The class will draw examples from neo-realistic representations of turbulent Korean society after the Korean war (1950-1953) by Yu Hyon-mok, horror films by Kim Ki-yong that allegorize the disintegration of masculinity and patriarchy in the 1970s, emotional exploitations of human relationships by Jang Sun-woo in the 80s, and brutally painful portraits of degraded intellectuals by Hong Sang-soo in the 90s.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/new.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean Civilization , University of Southern California
  Survey of the main characteristics and development of Korean art, literature, philosophy, religion, political and social institutions through different periods.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Korean Civilization , University of Pennsylvania
  Survey of the civilization of Korea from pre-historic times to the present.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Korean Cultural Identitues , Korea Institute
  Surveys articulations of Korean cultural identity in literature, art, and the writing of history from the Unified Silla Kingdom in the 7th century, through the succeeding Koryô and Chosôn dynasties, and into the first half of the 20th century. Then examines event and aftermath of the Japanese colonial occupation, 1910-1945; liberation, division, and the Korean War, 1945-1953; and the separating cultural spheres in north and south. Considers the re-production of identity issues in the context and course of the first century of Korean-American history, 1903-2003.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/index.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean Food, Korean Identity; The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture , Feffer, John
  In a divided country, cold noodles serve as an important reminder of a common culture. They also represent a unique contribution that the economically weaker North Korea can bring to the reunification process. But however tasty Pyongyang-style mul naengmyen may be, cold noodles ensure neither a sustainable livelihood for every North Korean defector nor an equal place at the reunification table for North Korea. The author explores intricate details of recent history of the Korean Peninsula making unique observations revealing some very interesting links between the agricultural practices and political realities.  
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20815/ - February 21, 2005

• Korean History 111. Traditional Korea , Korean Institute
  Survey of the history of Korea, from earliest times to the 19th century. Examines various interpretive approaches and issues in the political, social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic history of premodern Korea.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean History: A Bibliography , Robinson, Kenneth R.
  This bibliography covers many features of Korean history. The subjects include not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans, for example. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the 1965 treaty with Japan and the Vietnam War. Coverage of North Korea continues into the late 1960s. I have not sought to compile a comprehensive list for each subject. Rather, I have provided publications that have appeared since the publication in 1980 of the annotated bibliography Studies on Korea: A Scholar's Guide and recent publications not cited in that work. This bibliography, then, is both an updating of and a supplement to that venerable reference.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm - February 15, 2005

• Korean Law , University of British Columbia
  Overview of Korean laws and legal systems with emphasis on South Korea.
  courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=LAW&course=335 - August 5, 2004

• Korean Studies , Provine, Rob
  Korean Studies is an international, English-language, nonpartisan, moderated electronic discussion group on Korea. The list welcomes academic discussions on any aspect of Korean Studies. It may also be used for posting announcements of publications, job vacancies, and so forth. However, the KoreanStudies list adheres to strict academic standards and limits frequent participation to academics and other professionals in Asian studies. Presently, the list has about 750 subscribers, many of whom are established Korea specialists. Only messages with substantial Korean Studies content or with content that will be of wide interest within the discipline will be posted. Please also note that a scholarly discussion list such as this should not be used as a source for people\'s e-mail addresses, except as a last resort; discussion is the primary purpose. Therefore, requests for bibliographical information or e-mail addresses should be sent to the list only after all other means of search have been exhausted. All postings will be permanently stored online.
  koreaweb.ws/ks/ - February 16, 2005

• Korean Studies , Epstein, Stephen
  This electronic review journal endeavours to provide timely reviews of the latest work in Korean Studies.
  koreaweb.ws/ks/ksr/ - February 16, 2005

• Korean Studies Institute , University of Southern California
  USC College¡¯s Korean Studies Institute, established in 1995, is quickly becoming one of the nation¡¯s premier Korean studies programs. Already, the Institute is among only a small number of elite academic institutions to have developed a major Korean studies program and the Institute¡¯s Korean Heritage Library is one of the nation¡¯s preeminent research collections in Korean language materials.
  www.usc.edu/schools/college/east_asian_studies/ksi/ - February 17, 2005

• Korean Studies Newsletter , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The Korean Studies Newsletter is a cooperative effort of the Committee on Korean Studies, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, and the University of Hawai‘i Center for Korean Studies. The newsletter is published semiannually (in July and December).
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/Newsletters/newsletterindex.htm - February 15, 2005

• Korean Studies Program , University of Michigan
  The Korean Studies Program (KSP) is a unit of the International Institute within the University of Michigan. As a program devoted to the study of Korea, our goal is to foster teaching and research across disciplines and to use the academic resources of the university to promote an economic, political, and cultural understanding of Korea. The KSP provides funding for public programs (art exhibitions, film festivals, lectures, and conferences), individual faculty research, development of new courses, and the expansion of the Asia Library’s Korea collection. It maintains an active colloquium series, bringing eminent Korean Studies scholars from around the world to lecture on a diverse set of issues. The program also sponsors Korean events on campus including undergraduate and graduate initiatives and cultural activities. Major financial support from the Korea Foundation helped establish a senior professorship in Korean Studies. These activities and programs have raised awareness and appreciation of Korean culture across U-M and in the surrounding community.
  www.umich.edu/%7Eiinet/ksp/ - February 15, 2005

• Korean Studies Program , the University of Michigan
  The Korean Studies Program (KSP) is a unit of the International Institute within the University of Michigan. As a program devoted to the study of Korea, our goal is to foster teaching and research across disciplines and to use the academic resources of the university to promote an economic, political, and cultural understanding of Korea. The KSP provides funding for public programs (art exhibitions, film festivals, lectures, and conferences), individual faculty research, development of new courses, and the expansion of the Asia Library¡¯s Korea collection. It maintains an active colloquium series, bringing eminent Korean Studies scholars from around the world to lecture on a diverse set of issues. The program also sponsors Korean events on campus including undergraduate and graduate initiatives and cultural activities. Major financial support from the Korea Foundation helped establish a senior professorship in Korean Studies. These activities and programs have raised awareness and appreciation of Korean culture across U-M and in the surrounding community.
  www.umich.edu/%7Eiinet/ksp/ - February 17, 2005

• Korean Studies: New Pacific Currents , Suh, Dae-Sook
  This volume contains sixteen papers selected from the nearly one hundred presented at the First Pacific Basin Conference on Korean studies, held in Honolulu in 1992. The papers have been selected to reflect the wide range of academic disciplines and geographic regions rep-resented at the conference. They are grouped into five broad categories-history, literature, philosophy and religion, politics and economics, and sociology-and address such topics as rethinking popular culture in 1930s Korea, women’s literature in the Choson period, early Western studies of Korean religions, North Korean foreign policy, and ethnic identity and commu-nity involvement of young Korean Americans.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#new_pacific - February 15, 2005

• Koreanists , Korea Foundation
  The Koreanists web site offers a free online database of Korean studies scholars and students. It has been constructed to provide users with easy access to up-to-date information about scholars of Korean studies around the world.
  www.koreanists.net/index.asp - February 21, 2005

• Modern Korea: The Development of a Divided Nation , Claremont McKenna College
  A comparative study of political, economic, and social development of South Korea and North Korea with particular emphasis on the collapse of traditional Korea, Japanese colonial rule, the independence movements, the national division, the Korean War, the dynamics of inter-Korean rivalry, and the recent efforts for national reconciliation
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - January 19, 2005

• Modern Korean History Seminar , University of Toronto
  An examination of recent research results in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS473H1 - January 13, 2005

• Modern Korean History Seminar , University of Toronto
  An examination of recent research results in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS473Y1 - January 17, 2005

• Modern Korean History: Proseminar , Korea Institute
  An introduction to some of the current issues in modern Korean history through selected readings. Designed primarily for entering graduate students.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Modern Korean History: Seminar , Korea Institute
  Reading and research in modern Korean history. Students are required to write a project paper based largely on primary materials.
  - February 16, 2005

• Modern Korean Society , Victoria University of Wellington
  This course offers a study of contemporary Korean society through secondary sources drawn from a variety of social science disciplines and literature. Topics to be discussed include colonialism, nationalism, democratisation and political change, class conflict and social change, literature and popular culture, and gender issues.
  www.vuw.ac.nz/saelc/what-we-offer/asian-studies/courses/ASIA-203.aspx - February 16, 2005

• Native People of the Northeast , Cornell University
  This course is designed to provide a wide-ranging coverage of Korea's political, economic, social, and intellectual history. The first half of the course briefly reviews Korea's political history and establishes the chronological framework. In the second half, the discussion turns to a topical approach and investigates the development of uniquely Korean sociopolitical and intellectual institutions. As Korea cannot be studied in isolation, due consideration will be given to its adaptation of Chinese values and its role in transmitting cultural impulses to Japan.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=236&prefix=HIST&title=Native+Peoples+of+the+Northeast+%28also+AM+ST+236%29+%23+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - January 20, 2005

• North Korea WWW Virtual Library , Han, M.Y.
  The site is the central clearing house of links to high quality online resources on the society, cultures, economy, politics, language, education, history, religion, demography, tourism and other Social Sciences subjects concerningÊNorth Korea.
  www.skas.org/ - February 9, 2005

• Organization for Promoting Education Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea , Far Eastern State Technical University
  The Organization for Promoting Educational Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea was established in 1988 as the result of join efforts by FESTU President Gennady P. Turmov, and Rev. Kim Won Sik, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the FESTU's Branch in Seoul. Both educators clearly understood the necessity to start a new stage of bilateral educational cooperation.
  www.festu.ru/en/korea.htm - October 4, 2004

• Papers on DPRK , Nautilus Institute
  A list of publications with active links to actual paper on various issues of political, economic, security and cultural life of the DPRK.
  www.nautilus.org/papers/regional.html#dprk - November 23, 2004

• Post-War Korean Society and Culture Through Literature and Film , University of Toronto
  This course focuses on understanding political and cultural contexts of post-Korean war South Korean society through fictions and film.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS351H1 - January 13, 2005

• Post-War Korean Sodiety and Culture , University of Toronto
  This is a theme-oriented course with anthropological approaches to South Korean society and culture. The course deals with various subjects and phenomena appeared I post-war period in South Korea, which include post-Korean war crisis, gender and family dynamics, military dictatorship and economic development.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS272H1 - January 13, 2005

• Proseminar in Korean Cultural History , University of Southern California
  Introduction to Korean cultural and social history through intensive reading of the English-language literature on Korean history and culture.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Readings in Modern Korean History , Korea Institute
  Explores the history of the field through an examination of major scholarship. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Readings on Premodern Korean History , Korea University
  A study of social, political, economic, and intellectual history of premodern Korea reviewing major scholarship in the field. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination. All readings are in English.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Republic of Korea National Education Center , Far Eastern National University
  The center was established in 1995 in accordance with the agreement on cultural cooperation between Republic of Korea and Russia. The center holds seminars and conferences for faculty and students, supplies 34 educational institutions offering courses in Korean with teaching materials. In 2000, for the first time in Russia, the center administered Korean Proficiency Test.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=398 - October 4, 2004

• Selected Topics in Premodern Korean History: Seminar , Korea Institute
  Reading and research of selected primary sources and secondary works on premodern Korean history.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Social Change and Development in Korea , University of California, Los Angeles
  In-depth understanding of social change and development in 20th-century Korea. Discussion, in comparative/historical perspective, of major theoretical and empirical issues related to social, political, and economic Korean transformation.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=SOCIOL+&funsel=3 - August 9, 2004

• South Korea WWW Virtual Library , Han, M.Y.
  The site isÊthe central clearing house of links to high quality online resources on society, culture, economy, politics, language, education, history, religion, demography, tourism and other Social Sciences subjects concerningÊSouth Korea.
  www.skas.org/ - February 9, 2005

• The History of Modern Korea , Columbia University
  The course covers Korean history from 1636 to the present.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• The Korea Colloquium , Korea Institute
  The schedule of a colloquium on issues pertaining to Korea. Contains dates, names of the guest speakers, and issues discussed.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/colloquium/colloquium_s2005.html - February 16, 2005

• The Korean People in Modern Times 1600 to the present , University of British Columbia
  The transformation of Korea from a Confucian state into an industrial nation. Primary focus on the rise of nationalism and modern ideologies in Korea and on the cultural, social, and economic changes Korea has undergone as it has entered the modern world. This will be a lecture-discussion class in which students will be required to read primary materials (in English translation) as well as secondary materials in order to formulate their own perspectives on important events in modern Korean history. The purpose of this class is to help students gain a greater understanding of recent Korean history, and of the reasons for Korea\'s successes as well as its failures of the last few centuries. In addition, students should gain a greater understanding of how Koreans have defined themselves, and of how that self-definition has changed over time.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• The Kyushu Univeristy Korean Studies Center , Kyushu University
  The Kyushu University Korean Studies Center is the product of a public-private partnership, and was opened in December 1999 as the first unique institution to study in direct connection with Korea.The fourÊdepartments of the CenterÊinclude Social Networks, Political-Economic Systems, Humans and the Environment, and Planning.
  rcks.isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/e-rcks/gaiyo.html - February 17, 2005

• The People's Korea , DPRK government
  The People's Korea, a semimonthly on Korean affairs, is a Tokyo-based unofficial source of information on the DPRK Government's perspective. Since its inauguration on January 1, 1961, The People's Korea has been providing news and analyses from the DPRK perspective on international and domestic affairs as well as on Korea's national reunification, and information on Korean people's living, politics, economy, military, culture, history, customs, laws and regulations, festivals, sports, business, free trade zone, religions, tourism, etc. in its eight-page edition. The People's Korea, which has its branch office in downtown Pyongyang, has been committed to the cause of one Korea, enjoying an international readership in more than 120 countries and regions, including the United States and Tanzania. This PK web site (opened on July 20, 1997) is an abbreviated version of the original paper, and is updated weekly.
  210.145.168.243/pk/main.htm - February 21, 2005

• The Rise of Korean Civilization , University of British Columbia
  The evolution of a distinctive Korean civilization within the East Asian cultural sphere. Primary focus on cultural, social, and political development from the earliest times to the sixteenth century. This will be a lecture-discussion class in which students will be required to read primary materials (in English translation) as well as secondary materials in order to formulate their own perspectives on important issues in pre-modern Korean history. The purpose of this class is to help students gain a greater understanding how a distinctively Korean civilization emerged as well as gain a greater understanding of how the way Koreans have defined themselves, and how they have been defined by others, has changed over time.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• The Society of Korean-American Scholars , Duke University
  Society of Korean-American Scholars (SKAS) is a private, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to engender intellectual exchanges in the global Korean community with a view to enlightening and empowering individual members of the community. It promotes scholarship and fellowship among its members and seeks to foster leadership among young Korean-Americans.
  www.skas.org/ - February 9, 2005

• UCLA Center for Korean Studies , University of California, Los Angeles
  The UCLA Center for Korean Studies was established in 1993 to coordinate development of UCLA's burgeoning programs in this field of research. Despite its short history, the Center now presides over the biggest Korean Studies program on the mainland of the United States, with the most specialists dedicated to Korea on its faculty and the largest number of students studying Korean subjects, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
  www.isop.ucla.edu/korea/ - February 15, 2005

• University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies Library , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The Center for Korean Studies maintains a small, informal library and reading room for the convenience of faculty, students, and visitors. The library supplements the Korean resources in the Asia Collection of Hamilton Library and, with the exception of a limited number of items in its special gift collections, does not hold material not also available in the main library. The Center for Korean Studies holds several collections of books and papers presented as gifts by individuals active in Korean studies. Among these are collections donated by University of Washington professor of Korean literature Doo Soo Suh; Smithsonian Institution anthropologist Eugene I. Knez; teacher and art historian Evelyn Becker McCune; U.S. government official Robert A. Kinney; dance and music performer and teacher Ch'on-hung Kim; and Center associate member Karl Moskowitz.
  ks207.moore.hawaii.edu/ - February 21, 2005

• University of Hawaii Korea Collection , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Founded in 1943, the Korea Collection was the first in the United States. It supports the largest program of Korean Studies outside Korea. It has been developing collections in the arts, humanities, business, and social sciences. Since 1994, the collection has participated in the cooperative collection development program of the Korean Collections Consortium of North America funded by the Korea Foundation, Seoul, Korea. The University of Hawaii's responsibilities in this resource-sharing program are to build a comprehensive collection on Cheju-do, architecture, urban planning, urban studies, modern social conditions, and traditional music. Another responsibility as a part of this program is the acquisition of foreign language publications other than Chinese, English, and Japanese.
  www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/korea/korea.htm - February 21, 2005

• Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing , Park, Chan E.
  From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. In this innovative work, Chan Park celebrates her subject not as a static phenomenon but a living, organic tradition adapting to an ever-shifting context. Drawing on her extensive literary and performance backgrounds, Park provides insights into the relationship between language and music, singing and speaking, and traditional and modern reception. Her "performance-centered" approach to p'ansori informs the discussion of a wide range of topics, including the amalgamation of the dramatic, the narrative, and the poetic; the invocation of traditional narrative in contemporary politics; the vocal construction of gender; and the politics of preservation.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#Voices - February 15, 2005

• Workshop on Korean Studies , Stanford University
  This course's focus is on Korea-related topics from comparative and sociological perspectives. Discussions of assigned readings, present findings from projects, or participate in faculty's ongoing research projects. Primarily intended for graduate or undergraduate students working on honors theses.
  aparc.stanford.edu/courses/763/ - August 22, 2004

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• Asian Nation Studies: Korea , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This course examines Korea's historical experience as well as its contemporary institutions and issues by utilizing some of the most important works on Korea recently published as well as audio-visual aids.
  www.shaps.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/320K.html - September 18, 2004

• Korea and Major Powers , Boston University
  Examines the current foreign relations of the two Korean states with a special focus on efforts to overcome the tensions on the peninsula.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Korea: From Seclusion to Division , Boston University
  Korea's development over the last century within the quadrangle of the surrounding four big powers: China, Russia, Japan, and the U.S. Focusing particularly on the country's division and chances of unification.
  www.bu.edu/eas/courses.html - September 22, 2004

• Korean Politics and Economy , Claremont McKenna College
  Compares the political systems and economic policies of South Korea and North Korea. Special attention will be given to an in-depth study of competing ideologies, political leadership, political participation, policy-making processes, military organizations, and economic performance.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - August 12, 2004

• Modern Korea , The Australian National University
  The course will introduce students to the history of modern Korea, with a focus on Korean nationalism. The course is divided into three periods, the Early Modern Period (1800Ð1910), the Colonial Period (1905Ð1945), and the Era of Division (1945 to the present), and examines the chief internal and external forces which shaped the Korean nation up to the late 1980s.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6006.asp - August 9, 2004

• A Role for Russia in Korean Settlement , Wolf, David
  In the 1980s, it was all the rage for America to try and imitate the \"Japanese miracle\". In the 1990s the collapsed and rather chaotic former Soviet Union spoke longingly of the \"Chinese model\", a more orderly transition to the market mediated by the party elite still resolutely maintaining control of a few crucial institutions. Now, Moscow sources insist, the North Koreans are drawn to \"Russian structures\", where the \"power ministries\" dominate the agenda and the rich natural resource base is sufficient to keep a small elite well-fed. This makes some think that a Russian presence in the process could help broker the verifiable discontinuation of all North Korean WMD programs, if coupled to a plan to guarantee Pyongyang\'s security and a reliable source of energy in one form or another. North Korea would surrender all weapons of mass destruction and their components that may be on North Korean soil at the time that agreement comes into effect. Production programs will also be permanently terminated.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Wolff.htm - February 24, 2005

• Asia Program , Center for International Policy
  This website contains a substantial amount of information on political and economic developments of the Korean Peninsula.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/index.htm - February 24, 2005

• Asian Studies Seminar: Korea , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This course is designed to introduce students to methods to interpret modern Korea through the various disciplines. On one level, it is a readings course that examines some of the most important books on twentieth century Korea published in the last ten years. On another level, it will explore from a disciplinary approach contemporary Korea. And through this, the course will introduce both bibliographic and research techniques to facilitate the study of Korea. Students will be expected to read and critique a number of books. Three book reviews of five pages each are expected. In addition, students will be asked to research several issues in the discipline of their choice and prepare a bibliographic essay on a topic in that discipline. Through this course, students should gain a broad-based content knowledge about Korea, a discipline-based approach to research on Korea, and knowledge of available resources to support study and research on Korea.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/600K.html - January 13, 2005

• Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas , Noland, Marcus
  On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden—and possibly nuclear-armed—totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and \"muddling through\" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=94 - March 24, 2005

• Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present , Chin, Gi-Wook; Hwang, Kyung Moon eds.
  Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination of the multiple, shifting meanings of the May 18 Uprising and explains how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20792/ - February 22, 2005

• Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956 , Lankov, Andrei N.
  North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary North Korean press accounts, and personal interviews, Andrei Lankov presents for the first time a detailed look at one of the turning points in North Korean history: the country's unsuccessful attempts to de-Stalinize in the mid-1950s. He demonstrates that, contrary to common perception, North Korea was not a realm of undisturbed Stalinism; Kim Il Sung had to deal with a reformist opposition that was weak but present nevertheless. Lankov traces the impact of Soviet reforms on North Korea, placing them in the context of contemporaneous political crises in Poland and Hungary. He documents the dissent among various social groups (intellectuals, students, party cadres) and their attempts to oust Kim in the unsuccessful "August plot" of 1956. His reconstruction of the Peng-Mikoyan visit of that year—the most dramatic Sino-Soviet intervention into Pyongyang politics—shows how it helped bring an end to purges of the opposition. The purges, however, resumed in less than a year as Kim skillfully began to distance himself from both Moscow and Beijing. The final chapters of this fascinating and revealing study deal with events of the late 1950s that eventually led to Kim's version of "national Stalinism." Lankov unearths data that, for the first time, allows us to estimate the scale and character of North Korea's Great Purge. Meticulously researched and cogently argued, Crisis in North Korea is a must-read for students and scholars of Korea and anyone interested in political leadership and personality cults, regime transition, and communist politics.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#Lankov - February 15, 2005

• Diplomacy of Assymetry: Korean-American Relations to 1910 , Chay, Jong-suk
  This book contains a wealth of information on early Korean-American relations and offers valuable insights-especially into the role of public opinion in the foreign policy-making process and the influence of systemic change on diplomatic relations.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#diplm - February 15, 2005

• Emerging Power for Change: Civil Society in Korea , Stanford University
  Won-soon Park, attorney and founder of the Beautiful Foundation and People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, will teach this seminar on the civil society movement in Korea, with particular reference to law. Open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as law students.
  ksp.stanford.edu/courses/829/ - January 12, 2005

• Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki: Human Rights and U.S.-North Korean Relations , Feffer, John
  In developing a strategy toward North Korea, many human rights activists and members of U.S. Congress have mistakenly applied experiences drawn from East-West relations during the Cold War. The recent culmination of this strategy, the congressional passage of the North Korea Human Rights Act, has only compounded this mistaken interpretation. Unlike Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union of the 1970s and 80s, North Korea possesses no civil society, critical intelligentsia, or significant variant of "reform communism." There are no opportunities for civil society actors to connect with indigenous democratic movements. Furthermore, attempts to "link" any security or arms control deals with North Korea to improvements in the human rights realm -- as the recent legislation tries to do -- will likely result in neither greater security nor improved human rights conditions.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20757/ - February 22, 2005

• Government and Politics of the Korean Peninsula , Merrill, John
  The course explores the political, economic, and social factors that have shaped the development of the two Koreas. Selected case studies on topics such as the Korean War, neo-authoritarian development, South Korea's democratization, the IMF crisis, etc. are used to illustrate broader socieal science themes.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/Korean%20PeninsulaMerrill.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Hwang, Balbina Y. , The Heritage Foundation
  Balbina Y. Hwang is policy analyst for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation. Hwang, a native of Korea, is completing her PhD dissertation, titled "Globalization, Strategic Culture and Ideas: Explaining Continuity in Korean Foreign Economic Policy," at Georgetown University, where she also lectures on international relations and political economy. She was a Fulbright Scholar to South Korea in 1998-99 where she conducted doctoral dissertation field research. She has received several writing awards, including ones from the International Studies Association and the National Capital Area Political Science Association. Hwang is the editor of U.S. Korea Tomorrow, a quarterly magazine.
  www.heritage.org/About/Staff/BalbinaHwang.cfm - November 2, 2004

• Korea 2010 , Chamberlin, Paul F.
  Korea has been of enduring importance to Japan, China, Russia, and more recently, the United States, due to its location at the strategic crossroads of northeast Asia. Since the tragic division of the peninsula in 1945, South Korea has developed into a free democracy and an important part of the global economy. Now it is undergoing a major transformation from a managed economy to a market economy, from the industrial age to the \"knowledge era.\" Korea 2010 assesses the impact of rapid and accelerating developments in science and technology on South Korean society, economics, and politics, as well as alternative development paths to 2010. The study specifically addresses how six trends attending a society\'s transition to the knowledge era are playing out in Korea: Foundations (demography, environment, natural resources, and culture) Engines of history (science and technology, social and psychological processes) Human resources economy (empowering workers at all levels) Era of global tribes (globalization and tribalism) Rise of new authorities (impact on traditional hierarchies) Test of human psychology (information age anxieties)Korea 2010 provides a guide for those with commercial, diplomatic, security, social, or other interests in the development of this important country.
  csis.zoovy.com/product/0892063904 - February 1, 2005

• Korea after Kim Jong-il , Noland, Marcus
  Today\'s North Korean regime embodies elements of both communism and Confucian dynasty, is sovereign with respect to only part of the divided Korean nation, is vulnerable to pressure from external powers, and confronts incipient internal demands for change, yielding an unusually broad set of possible transition paths and successor regimes. Such paths range from maintenance of the status quo to evolution, probably toward a more conventional form of military authoritarianism, to revolutionary upheaval, the latter in all likelihood implying the North\'s collapse and its absorption into the rival Southern state. This policy analysis quantitatively analyzes the probability of regime change and examines the character of possible successor regimes and the implications of these profoundly different trajectories for South Korea.
  bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=369 - March 24, 2005

• Korea and Major Powers , Boston University
  Examines the current foreign relations of the two Korean states with a special focus on efforts to overcome the tensions on the peninsula.
  bu.edu/ir/undergrad/undergradcourses.html - August 12, 2004

• Korea and the United States: A Century of Cooperation , Koo, Youngnok; Suh, Dae-Sook
  The century-long relationship between Korea and the United States is examined in this integrated series of studies by Korean and American scholars. The volume grew out of a conference held at the University of Hawai‘i’s Center for Korean Studies in May 1982 in observance of the centennial of the signing of the treaty establishing relations between the two nations. Not limited to an analysis of the political and economic dimensions of the relationship, this book considers as well the historical, cultural, social, and intellectual ties between Korea and the United States.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#korandus - February 15, 2005

• Korean Foreign Relations , Columbia University
  An examination of the changing foreign relations of the two Korean states with major international actors, and an analysis of the foreign policies of the two states on issues of war and peace, political economy, human rights, science and technology, international law, international organizations, and world order with an emphasis on recent post-Cold War developments.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Korean Politics , Columbia University
  Analysis of the post World War II development of Korean politics in historical, comparative, and theoretical perspective with special attention to the domestic/societal, inter-Korean, and international factors at work. Main topics include the Korean state, society, culture, ideology, institutions, and leaders, as they shape the nation-building and democratizing processes.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Korean Security and Foreign Policy , Cha, Victor
  The Course is offered by the Department of Government.
  www.georgetown.edu/departments/government/04acoursedescrip.pdf - September 21, 2004

• Kwon, Insook , Environic Foundation International
  Insook Kwon is not just an expert on human rights and women's studies. She has also personally experienced the effects of governmental injustice on citizens. At Seoul National University, she became active in the pro-democracy movement in South Korea, involved in smuggling students into factories in order to educate them about their rights. To pursue such work further, she left the university during her senior year. During the 1980's, Kwon became a full-fledged civil and human rights activist in South Korea and was arrested for her work in 1985. Before long she became a symbol for the democracy movement when, rather than become a victim of military tactics, she brought charges against the police who had tortured her during her prison time. Her accusations soon resulted in a public outcry against the government. Named "Woman of the Year" of Korea in 1986, she became the driving force behind the collapse of South Korea's military government a year later. Recently she received her PhD in Women's Studies from Clark University and was also named one of twenty Most Distinguished Women Public Figures of the 20th Century in South Korea by the Munhwa Broadcasting Company (MBC).
  www.environicfoundation.org/bios/advisors/kwon.html - November 2, 2004

• Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising , Lewis, Linda S.
  The Kwangju Uprising is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the subject still of controversy, confusion, international debate, and competing claims. As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this innovative work on commemoration politics, social representation, and memory, Lewis draws on her fieldwork notes from May 1980, writings from the 1980s, and ethnographic research she conducted in the late 1990s on the memorialization of Kwangju and its relationship to changes in the national political culture.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#kwangjuMay - February 15, 2005

• Lee, Hong Yung , Lee, Hong Yung
  Professor Hong Yung Lee received his B.A. from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research areas of interest include the domestic politics of China and Korea, and political economy and international relations in East Asia. He authored Politics of Chinese Cultural Revolution (UC Berkeley, 1978) and From Revolutionary Cadres Party Technocrats in Socialist China (UC Berkeley, 1991), and edited Prospects for Change in North Korea (Institute of East Asian Studies, 1994); Korean Options in a Changing International Order (Institute of East Asian Studies, 1993); Political Authority and Economic Exchange in Korea (Oruem Publishers, 1993). He teaches courses on East Asian politics and political economy, and on international relations, and is currently working on a book length manuscript on "Comparative Study of Institutional Templates of China, Japan, and Korea." He is currently Chair of the Center for Korean Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
  www.polisci.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Bio/Permanent/Lee,H/ - February 22, 2005

• Lynn, Hyung Gu , Institute of Asian Research
  Dr. Hyung Gu Lynn is an Assistant Professor and Chair in Korean Research for the Institute of Asian Research. He's also an associate editor for the journal Pacific Affairs. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and his MA and BA from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lynn has researched and published on a range of topics related to 20th century Korea and Japan.
  www.iar.ubc.ca/introduction/hglynn.html - October 22, 2004

• Min Yong-hwan: A Political Biography , Finch, Michael
  The diplomat and scholar-official Min Yong-hwan (1861–1905), described by one contemporary Western observer as "undoubtably the first Korean after the emperor," is best remembered in Korean historiography for his pioneering diplomacy at the courts of Tsar Nicholas II and Queen Victoria in the late 1890s. Furthermore, he is considered to be the foremost patriot of Korea's Taehan era (1897–1907). This pioneering study of Min Yong-hwan provides us with a new perspective on a period of Korean history that still casts its shadow over the region today.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#min_yonghwan - February 15, 2005

• North Korea at the Crossroads , Okonoji, Masao, ed.
  The Japan Institute of International Affairs undertook an intensive research project on North Korea from spring 1988, the results of which have been published in "North Korea at the Crossroads". This book may fairly be termed the first in-depth academic study of North Korea ever to be published in Japan. Containing treaties on political, economic, and foreign policy affairs, it sheds light on the current situation in this largely unknown country and offers a perspective for viewing the future prospects on the Korean Peninsula.
  www.jiia.or.jp/index-en.html - November 23, 2004

• North Korea Zone , Anthony, Boris
  AnÊinteractive site that opens up the floor for professionals and enthusiasts interested in North Korea. It offers various perspectivesÊand analysis of the most recent political and economic events affectig situation in the the country and the Northeast Asia Region in general. Among the authors there areÊestablished policy analysts and journalists fromÊthe US, Canada, and Europe.
  www.nkzone.org/nkzone/ - March 22, 2005

• North Korea: HIstory and Politics 1945-1990's , The Australian National University
  This postgraduate course is not offered in 2005.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6007.asp - January 11, 2005

• Oh, Bonnie , Oh, Bonnie
  Bonnie B.C. Oh is the Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the University’s Main Campus Ombuds Officer, and the past director of Women’s Studies at Georgetown University.Ê She has written extensively on issues relating to not only Korea but the wider Northeast Asia region. She is the author/co-editor of East Meets West, Comfort Women of World War II (2001), and a forthcoming, Korea Under the American Military Government, 1945-1948 (end of 2001). Her articles, essays, and book reviews in both Korean and English have appeared as book chapters and in refereed journals including the Journal of Asian Studies, American Historical Review, and Korea Journal. She is the author of \"China\" in the Compton’s Encyclopedia and \"Korea\" in World Book Encyclopedia.Ê She has served as the Book Review editor for the Journal of Asian Studies and as President of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA). Oh served as assistant dean at the University of Maryland at College Park and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and associate professors of history at Loyola University of Chicago. She was educated at Law College of Seoul National University, Barnard College (Columbia University), Georgetown University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Chicago.
  www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/asia/faculty_oh.html - February 24, 2005

• Paradox of Korean Globalization , Chin, Gi-Wook
  This chapter first offers a theoretical framework to explain coexistence of nationalism and globalization by considering two interrelated processes: 1) nationalist appropriation of globalization and 2) intensification of ethnic identity in reaction to globalization process. It then presents empirical evidence to demonstrate how these processes have worked in Korean globalization at both official and popular levels.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20125/ - February 22, 2005

• Park, Kun Young , Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
  Dr. Kun Young Park is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His expertise is in the areas of U.S.-North Korea Relations, U.S.-ROK Relations, and Inter-Korean Relations.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/fellows/kpark.htm - October 18, 2004

• Park, Kyung-Ae , University of British Columbia
  Kyung-Ae Park (Ph.D., Georgia) specializes in North and South Korean politics and gender and development. She is the co-author of "Politics of Integration and Modernization: China and North Korea" and co-editor of "Korean Security Dynamics in Transition." She has written numerous book chapters and articles that have appeared in "Comparative Politics", "Asian Survey," "Journal of Asian Studies," "Pacific Affairs" and other journals. Currently she is working on a funde project on North Korea's foreign policy. She has been actively involved in the policy dialogues on Korean politics among North and South Korean and North American experts and officials. She has made several trips to North Korea at the invitation of the Institute of International Studies and the Korean Association of Social Scientists. She has served as the President of the Assoiation of Korean Political Studies in North America between 1999-2001. At UBC she holds the position of Research Chair of the Institute of Asian Research.
  www.politics.ubc.ca/select/depart/profiles/park.htm - October 19, 2004

• Political and Historical Discourses in Korea , Hahm, Claibong
  The seminar examines historical, political, social and economic developments in Korea employing the lens of Confusianism. After reviewing history and the main principles of Confusianism, the course explores the "Asian Values" and "Asian Capitalism" controversy as a way of looking at how the "tradition v. modernity" dichotomy is being played out in the aftermath of successful economic development and demicratization of Korea.
  www.georgetown.edu/departments/government/03Acoursedescrip.pdf - September 21, 2004

• Seoul's Engagement with Pyongyang: A Mid-Course Assessment , Lho, Kyongsoo
  Th equestion of peace on the Korean peninsula continues to remain high on the foreign policy agenda for the US and both Koreas. This paper is divided into five parts. First part talks about the beginnings of the Sunshine Policy. Part two briefly looks at the SunshineÊ Policy's outcomes, and its accomplishments. The third part looks at what the author believes to be the fundamentals of any North Korean policy by any South Korean government or the U.S. - South Korea allience. Then, in part four, the author briefly reviews the prospects of for Sunshine PolicyÊin the months and years ahead.ÊThe paper finally concludes with what ought to be the next steps, if the allience is going to pursue a successful North Korea policy in the period ahead. Ê
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00060.pdf - November 9, 2004

• South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence , Wells, Kenneth M.
  The minjung (people’s) movement stood in the forefront of the nationwide tide that swept away the military in June 1987 and opened up space for more democratic politics, more responsible economics, and new directions in culture. Yet, as concrete reforms take shape, serious debate has arisen over the identity of the minjung and the values the term represents. This is the first work in English to grapple specifically with the nature, impact, and implications of the diverse forms taken by this national development that lies at the center of the last three decades of tumult and change in South Korea. It offers insights from the per-spective of Korean and Western experts in a variety of disciplines, including leaders of the movement itself.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#minjung - February 15, 2005

• The Clan Records: Five Stories of Korea , Toshiyuki, Kajiyama
  The five stories in this collection are the first English translations of Japanese works dealing with Korea under Japan’s harsh military rule. The stories included in the volume are: “The Clan Records,” “The Remembered Shadow of the Yi Dynasty,” “Seeking Life amdist Death: The Last Day of the War,” “When the Hibiscus Bloom,” and “A Crane on a Dunghill in Seoul in 1936.”
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#clan_record - February 15, 2005

• The Journal of Korean Studies , Duncan, John; Shin Gi-Wook eds.
  The Korean Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield, is proud to announce the continuation of the Journal of Korean Studies, beginning with volume 9 in fall 2004. Between 1979 and 1992, the JKS became a leading academic forum for the publication of innovative in-depth research on Korea. Now under the editorial guidance of Gi-Wook Shin and John Duncan, this journal will continue to be dedicated to quality articles, in all disciplines, on a broad range of topics concerning Korea, both historical and contemporary.
  ksp.stanford.edu/docs/journalofkoreanstudies/ - January 12, 2005

• The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910 , Patterson, Wayne
  With remarkable attention to detail, Patter-son not only explains how and why Koreans came to Hawai‘i and their fate on arrival, but also the major political, economic, and diplomatic intrigues involved.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#frontier - February 15, 2005

• The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism in Korea
  This study seeks to understand the conflict and tension arising from a territorially divided nation with a strong legacy of ethnic homogeneity, using the Korean case for consideration. In doing so, the authors rely on a recent development in social identity theory to explore the dynamics and conflict inherent in intra-group social identification.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20800/ - February 21, 2005

• The Record of the Black Dragon Year , Lee, Peter H.
  The Imjin nok, or Record of the Black Dragon Year, is the first popular tale inspired by the Japanese invasion of Korea between 1592 and 1598. As a collection of folk narratives clustered around major events and characters, it exists in some forty manuscript and printed versions, long and short, in the vernacular and literary Chinese. Peter H. Lee provides the first accurate and readable translation of this cultural text in English. In the Introduction, Lee traces the rise of popular storytelling in late Choson times, analyzes ten recurrent motifs shared by the most extant versions in the vernacular, and firsthand eyewitness accounts of Korean captives in Japan along with similar accounts of the war in the records of dream journeys and kasa poetry.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#black_dragon - February 15, 2005

• The Reluctant Crusade: American Foreign Policy in Korea, 1941-1950 , Matray, James Irving
  The author address multiple issues of the controvercial subject of Korean-American Relations. 
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#matray - February 15, 2005

• The Ties That Unbind: Japan and U.S. Korea Policy , Namkung, K.A.
  The return of a crisis situation to the Korean peninsula has brought into sharp relief the need for unity on the part of the United States and its allies to deal with the deteriorating situation. All three governments - in Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and Seoul - have repeatedly stressed the importance of acting in concert during this crisis. But there are also new elements on the scene. The advent of a considerably harsher U.S. posture towards North Korea has moved both of its allies in the region to find new formulas to avoid war and exposed the existence of major differences between them and Washington. One is the offer on the part of the President-elect of the Republic of Korea to \\\"mediate\\\" the dispute between Washington and Pyongyang, another is Japan\\\'s earlier bold attempt to establish a political framework for a comprehensive resolution to its differences with North Korea. North Korea for its part has finally come to regard both Japan and South Korea as sovereign entities in their own right. Of equal interest is the new U.S. interest in working with its \\\"friends\\\" in the region, principally Russia and China, to \\\"peacefully\\\" resolve the North Korean issue and in multilateral approaches in general. Thus, the key to resolving the North Korean nuclear issue (and to removing other military threats from the North) lies in setting up six-party talks as called for by Japan and Russia within which various two-way (U.S.-DPRK, Japan-DPRK) and three-way (U.S.-ROK-DPRK) talks on specific issues can be negotiated, thereby meeting the concerns of all of the principal parties, including North Korea. Within this framework, China can facilitate the U.S.-DPRK dialogue, Russia the Japan-DPRK one. Japan has a disproportionately important role to play in this scenario.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Namkung.htm - February 24, 2005

• The Two Koreas , Korea Institute
  This course seeks to provide a broad historical context in which to understand the contemporary political division on the Korean peninsula. It examines key historical forces that have created and shaped the two Koreas before, during, and after the actual partition of the country in 1945. Topics include nascent nation-building efforts between 1876 and 1910, the impact of Japanese colonialism and the Cold War, and North/South development and interaction after 1948. The course interweaves political, socioeconomic, and cultural themes within an historical framework centered on nation-building while also highlighting a number of major historiographical issues in modern Korean history.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/index.html - February 16, 2005

• The Uited States and Korean Unification , Cumings, Bruce
  For more than a decade the serious and seemingly never-ending problem of American relations with North Korea, as presented in soundbites and newspaper paragraphs, has read like a cartoon: the United States, in its original innocence, thinking only of the best interests of the Korean people, confronts a renegade state run by a mad totalitarian dictator, starving his people to death in the interests of just one thing: nuclear weapons and the missiles to carry them. Once this lunatic has those means at his disposal, he will not hesitate to take out one, two, many American cities. The author examines influence of the American media on the process of development of the U.S. - North Korea Relations and the role of the country in possible unification of the devided Korean Peninsula.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Cumings.htm - February 24, 2005

• U.S.-ROK Relations: Silencing the Loose Cannons , Cossa, Ralph A.
  In this article, Cossa offers a suggestion for how the Roh and Bush administrations can bridge the diplomatic gap that has widened of the course of the past few years.
  www.csis.org/pacfor/pac0448.pdf - November 3, 2005

• Woo-Cumings, Meredith , University of Michigan
  Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Korean Studies Program, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japanese political economy; legal system; U.S.-Japan relationship; East Asian political economy.
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=43 - October 6, 2004

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• Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge , Armacost, Michael H.; Okimoto, Daniel I; Shin, Gi-Wook
  North Korea's renewed bid for nuclear weapons poses an urgent, serious foreign policy challenge to the United States. The current situation -- though it bears a resemblance to the events of 1993-1994 -- is far more dangerous and difficult. North Korea has developed longer-range ballistic missiles; South Korea's growing nationalism has put its U.S. relations on shakier ground; and the United States is distracted by the wars on terrorism and for regime change in Iraq. Despite these challenges, good prospects still exist for a diplomatic resolution to the North Korea problem. North Korea's dire economic circumstances have made it more vulnerable to outside pressure at a time when its neighbor nations and the United States are increasingly concerned about its nuclear ambition. Military means would not only exact huge human casualties but also deepen U.S. estrangement from Seoul and diminish prospects for developing a joint strategy with other Asian powers. Given the urgency and complexity of the current situation, appointment of a special coordinator for North Korean policy could help the administration to formulate a unified policy, sell it to Congress, coordinate it with allies, and present it to Pyongyang. In any event, a key requirement will be real "give and take" negotiations with South Korea to arrive at a coordinated strategy. In the end, Pyongyang must choose: economic assistance and security assurance on the condition that all nuclear activities be abandoned, or dire consequences if nuclear programs continue. Any new agreement, however, must avoid the deficiencies of the 1994 Agreed Framework. It must be more verifiable, less readily reversible, more comprehensive, more politically defensible, and more enforceable through the involvement of North Korea's neighbors.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20180/ - February 22, 2005

• Arms Control Association , Arms Control Association
  The Arms Control Association (ACA), founded in 1971, is a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies. Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today (ACT), ACA provides policy-makers, the press and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. In addition to the regular press briefings ACA holds on major arms control developments, the Association\'s staff provides commentary and analysis on a broad spectrum of issues for journalists and scholars both in the United States and abroad. The site contains a lot of valuable information on security issues particularly related to North Korea.
  www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_07-08/NKtalks.asp - March 23, 2005

• Assessment of the North Korean Missile Threat , Wright, David C.
  There is significant concern in the United States about the North Korean ballistic missile program and its ability to threaten US territory and allies. Since the mid-1980s, North Korea has-likely with significant foreign assistance-developed and produced a series of ballistic missiles of increasing range. It now deploys missiles with ranges able to reach all of South Korea and Japan, and is developing longer range missiles. It is also known to have transferred missile technology, as well as complete missiles, to other countries. Assessments of North Korea's military capability often portray North Korea as possessing a long-range nuclear missile capability, or as able to rapidly acquire one. This is not true. The author offers his perspective and analysis of the military capabilities and their influence on the international position of North Korea.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Wright.htm - February 24, 2005

• Bennett, Bruce , RAND Corportation
  Dr. Bruce Bennett is an expert in military strategy and the use of nuclear weapons in Korea. He has worked on the future of warfare and military analysis, especially in light of new technologies, operational concepts, and threats. Is examining possible chemical and biological weapon (CBW) threats in Korea and the Persian Gulf and the character of the U.S. strategy required in response, with a focus on deterrence. Has directed war games on CBW for USCENTCOM (Desert Breeze), including a bilateral seminar with Bahrain. Has also researched asymmetric strategies for the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), and how to respond to asymmetric threats.
  www.rand.org/news/experts/bennett.html - October 29, 2004

• China and the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long-Term , Shambaugh, David
  The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors (both internal and external), influencing China\'s policies towards North Korea. The paper makes several predictions regarding the future developments of the bilateral relations.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Shambaugh.htm - February 24, 2005

• Davis, Paul K. , RAND Corporation
  Paul Davis is a senior scientist and Research Leader at RAND and a Professor of Policy Analysis in the RAND Graduate School. His current research relates to strategic planning, high-level decision support, representing adversary reasoning, capabilities-based planning, effects-based operations, deterrence in the counter-terrorism era, military transformation, advanced methods for modeling and simulation, including model composability, and missile defense. Dr. Davis teaches graduate courses in defense planning, counter-terrorism policy, and policy analysis of strategy problems with massive uncertainty. Dr. Davis is a member of the Naval Studies Board under the National Research Council and has served on a number of studies for the Council and the Defense Science Board. He was awarded the Vance R. Wanner award by the Military Operations Research Society for lifetime achievement. Dr. Davis has served tours at RAND as a corporate research manager and program manager. Before joining RAND he was a senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  www.rand.org/about/contacts/personal/pdavis/ - October 29, 2004

• Ending the North Korean Nuclear Crisis , The Korea Task Force
  The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current situation in North Korea and makes policy recommendations for the policy makers in the United States.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/Web%20Report.pdf - February 24, 2005

• Federation of American Scientists , Federation of American Scientists
  The Federation of American Scientists is a nonprofit organization founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists. Its founders were members of the Manhattan Project, creators of the atom bomb and deeply concerned about the implications of its use for the future of humankind. FAS is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the worldwide arms race and avoiding the use of nuclear weapons for any purpose. Many of the FAS\'s publications and briefs are dedicated to the issues of nuclear and energy security in North Korea.
  www.fas.org/main/home.jsp - March 23, 2005

• Ferguson, Charles , Monterey Institute of International Studies
  Areas of Expertise: Missles : Ballistic Missles: Spread and Impact on the United States Nuclear : Submarine Dismantlement in Russia Strategic Arms Control Nuclear Reactor Safety in NIS, India, Pakistan, and North Korea Nuclear Waste Management in Russia Fissile Materials Storage and Disposition Loose Nukes in NIS U.S. National Laboratories Technical Questions Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Terrorism : Nuclear/Radiological Terrorism Regional Expertise : Russia North Korea and Weapons of Mass Destruction Other : Department of State
  cns.miis.edu/cns/staff/cferg.htm - October 2, 2004

• Finding Our Way Anew to a Denuclearized Koreean Peninsula , Albright, David
  Revelations in October 2002 about North Korea\'s uranium enrichment program have derailed efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. Any such enrichment program would be expected to produce highly enriched uranium, a nuclear weapons-usable explosive material. As a result, North Korea\'s effort to build a plant able to make HEU is equivalent to its earlier efforts to place in operation a plutonium separation plant at Yongbyon. The priority must be finding a way to restore a path to a denuclearized Korean peninsula. As in the earlier crisis over plutonium separation, some advocate isolating North Korea and threatening it militarily to force its compliance with its international commitments not to possess nuclear weapons. However, a military approach is risky and unlikely to succeed in any case without incurring a significant risk of a devastating regional war. However, defining an acceptable diplomatic strategy is difficult. The author makes an attempt to further desepher the reasons behind this problem and make valid recommendations to the policy-makers.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Albright.htm - February 24, 2005

• Government and Security in Korea , Naval Postgraduate School
  One of the courses offered by the Deaprtment of NSA Regional Security Studies: Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
  www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/nsa/farEast.asp - September 21, 2004

• Government and Security in Korea , American Military University
  An examination of the governments and the militaries of the two Koreas. This course will closely examine the reasons behind the Korean peninsula playing such a pivotal role in overall Northeast Asian security. The course will examine domestic political, economic and social problems and prospects of North Korea and South Korea; the prospects for reunification; the military balance and the changing strategic environment; and the relations of Pyongyang and Seoul with their key allies. Includes an examination of U.S. relations with Korea.
  www.apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=NS - September 21, 2004

• International Crisis Group , International Crisis Group
  The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. A large amount of publications is devoted to nuclear issues in North Korea.
  www.icg.org/home/index.cfm?id=3101&l=1 - March 23, 2005

• Korea and Asian Security in the 21st Century , Moon, Chung-in
  National Division, the Korean War, and protracted military conflict on the Korean peninsula have long been considered a product of the Cold War bipolar structure. Likewise,strategic interactions among four major regional actors and the balance of power have dictated the nature of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. Since the end of the Cold War, however, strategic paremeters in the region have begun to change repidly. Along with the changes, contending visions of future strategic position of a unified Korea have emerged. They include the maintenance of the status quo, aligning with the maritime power, aligning with the continental power, power rejection as a middle power, and a permanent neutral state. The seminar will examine each of these future scenarios on Korea's strategic positioning in the post-unification period and make impact assessments of these scenarious on regional security.Ê
  ads.bookpark.ne.jp/ads/get.asp?site=SPFV&file=SPFV00013.pdf - November 9, 2004

• Korea in Russia's Post Cold War Regional Political Context , Bazhanov, Evgeny
  This article examines the role of Korea in Russia's Post-Soviet foreign policy. Dr. Bazhanov is one of Russia's leading authorities on North Korea.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/Bazhanov--Post_Soviet_Russia_and_Korea.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Korea Research Monographs , University of California, Berkeley
  A complete list of Korea Research Monographs and ordering information may be viewed on the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS).
  ieas.berkeley.edu/publications/catalogue.html - February 17, 2005

• Mansourov, Alexandre Y. , Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
  Alexandre Mansourov is a specialist in Northeast Asian security, politics, and economics, focusing primarily on the Korean peninsula. He joined the faculty of the Department of Regional Studies at the College of Security Studies in October 2001.
  www.apcss.org/BIOS/Faculty0704/Mansourov0704/alexandre_monsourov.htm - October 18, 2004

• Multilateral Collaboration in Korea: A View from Russia , Bazhanov, Evgeny
  This article is a working paper written by one of Russia's leading authorities on North Korea. Dr. Bazhanov presents a Russian perspective on the conflict on the Korean Peninsula and multilateral prescriptions for resolving the tensions.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/Bazhanov--Multilat_in_Korea.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Noerper, Stephen , Nautilus Institute
  Dr. Noerper brings two decades experience in academe, government, foundations and NGOs, with focus on US foreign and security policies, nuclear power relations and Korean security. At Intellibridge, Dr. Noerper has led efforts to elevate coverage of key defense and foreign policy analyses, expanded the Intellibridge Expert Network (IEN) of security and foreign policy professionals, and networked among institutions and individuals on issues of WMD, North Korea and other critical issues.
  www.nautilus.org/admin/staff/stephen.html - October 22, 2004

• Park, John , Harvard University
  Dr. John Park is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Park received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University where he was a Canadian Government Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow.  While a predoctoral research fellow at Harvard from 1998-2000, he completed his dissertation on International Atomic Energy Agency inspections during the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis.  During his predoctoral research fellowship, he was also a government studies tutor at Harvard.
  bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/person.cfm?order_by=name&program=CORE&ln=full&item_id=743 - October 28, 2004

• Perspectives on the Future of the Korean Peninsula , Cha, Victor, Joseph P. Ferguson, and Scott Snyder
  Timely in view of North Korea\'s recent efforts to force a nuclear crisis in the region, this issue of the examines the views of the surrounding powers toward the Korean Peninsula, those of China, Japan, and Russia, and raises critical questions about the future of Northeast Asia. North Korean leaders\' insistence on direct bilateral negotiations with the United States fell on deaf ears in the White House, which would accept no less than direct Chinese participation. The reasons for Washington\'s tough stand, to which the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK) eventually bowed, were straightforward. More than any other nation outside the peninsula, China has strategic interests in the North and influence with Pyongyang. In the ultimate view of the Bush Administration, China must share the frustrations negotiators experience with that country\'s untrustworthy leaders, share responsibility for supporting whatever peace can be fashioned with North Korea, and share in implementing any policies that may be required to stop the North from developing or trading dangerous weapons, technologies, and materials. Other Northeast Asian nations have security interests on the peninsula too, and their direct or indirect participation in any talks is consequential. Japanese nuclear restraint is being tested, and Japanese destroyers may be needed to help enforce any trade bans related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD), should such policies become necessary. Russia would like to be involved, may serve as a broker, and should it recover economically might serve as a balancer down the road to offset other powers located in the region. It is important, therefore, to understand how leaders in Beijing, Tokyo, and Moscow assess developments in Korea. Also important for the purposes of U.S. policymakers is understanding the attitude of these three nations toward the U.S. military presence in South Korea.
  www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol14no1/14-1.pdf - June 1, 2003

• Pritchard, Charles L. , The Brookings Institution
  Charles Pritchard is a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. His current projects include Japanese and Korean political/security issues, Japan's role in East Asia, North Korea's nuclear program, and U.S.-Japan and U.S.-South Korea security relationship.
  www.brookings.edu/scholars/cpritchard.htm - October 22, 2004

• Savage, Tim , Nautilus Institute
  Tim Savage is the Associate at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development. Tim's publications include "To Build Trust, Think Small," (in "Newsweek International", November 6, 2000, with Peter Hayes); "After the Korean Summit - Turning Words Into Action" (in the "San Francisco Chronicle", June 28, 2000, with Peter Hayes); "Koreans Take Steps to Solve Own Problems" (in the "Korea Herald", June 21, 2000);"The Agreed Framework at the Crossroads," (in "Sekai" #660, April 4, 1999, with Wade Huntley); and "American Response to the Korean Independence Movement: 1910-1945" in the University of Hawaii "Journal of Korean Studies" 20 (1996). He also contributed to the forthcoming "Historical Dictionary of US-East Asian Relations". He has studied Korean language at the University of Hawaii, National University, and Yonsei University.
  www.nautilus.org/admin/staff/tim.html - October 22, 2004

• The Air War In Korea , American Military University
  This course covers the history of the air war in Korea, 1950-1953, the bombing campaign in North Korea, the close air support and other support of UN forces, and the advent of aerial combat in the Jet Age.
  www.apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=AW - August 29, 2004

• The Conventional Arms Control Agenda , Harrison, Selig S.
  This paper first sets the historical record straight as a prelude to a discussion of how to end the state of war and replace the Armistice machinery. Next, it discusses guidelines for the conventional arms control discussions that would become possible if a peace agreement is concluded and the U.N. Command and Military Armistice Commission are replaced, reviewing little-known North Korean proposals. Finally, the paper suggests specific policy recommendations suggested by the paper for consideration by the Task Force.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Harrison.htm - February 24, 2005

• The Future of North Korea , Akaha, Tsuneo
  This includes the following contributions: Tsuneo Akaha, "Introduction: Uncertainty, Complexity, and Fluidity on the Korean Peninsula" Robert A. Scalapino, "Korea: The Options and Perimeters" Chung-in Moon, "The Sunshine Policy and the Korean Summit: Assessments and Prospects" Alexandre Mansourov, "A Neutral Democratic People's Republic of Korea?: Historical Background, Rationale, and Prospects" James Clay Moltz, "US Policy Interests and the Concept of North Korean Neutrality" Tsuneo Akaha, "Japan's Policy toward North Korea: Interests and Options" James E. Auer, "The US-Japan Security Treaty and Neutrality for North Korea" Samuel S. Kim, "China and the Future of the Korean Peninsula" Nikolai Sokov, "A Russian View of the Future Korean Peninsula" Georgi Toloraya, "Russia and North Korea: Ten Years Later" Reinhard Drifte, "The European Union and North Korea" Tsuneo Akaha, "Conclusion: The Future of Korea"
  www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415249651/qid=1096483926/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-8509335-0475854?v=glance&s=books - September 29, 2004

• The Korean War , American Military University
  The course examines history of the war in Korea: 1950-1953; the causes of the war, the United Nation's reaction to the North Korean invasion; American policy and the military land operations of the war.
  www.apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=LW - September 21, 2004

• The Korean War , Claremnot Mckenna College
  A study of the origin, development, and consequences of the Korean War with special emphasis on the U.S. decision-making processes, the role of the United Nations, the Chinese participation in the war, the Truman-MacArthur controversies, the cease-fire negotiations, and the effects on inter-Korean relations. Archival materials and documentary films are used.
  claremontmckenna.edu/admission/catalog/2003-2004/htmls/majors/government.asp#courses - January 19, 2005

• U.S. Interests and Goals on the Korean Peninsula , Sigal, Leon V.
  This paper examines U.S. interests and long-term goals on the Korean Peninsula and strategies for achieving them. A review of U.S. actions over the past decade and North Korean responses, including its actions this fall, suggests the D.P.R.K. is willing to satisfy U.S. security aims in face-to-face negotiations.
  www.ciponline.org/asia/reports/task_force/Sigal.htm - February 24, 2005

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