Join us to celebrate the PSU KORE INITIATIVE (Korean Outreach, Research, and Education)!!!
INVITED GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Yong-Chool Ha is a Russia and Korea specialist and the Korean Foundation Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of
Washington. He is also Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University. He has visited North Korea three times, has written on North Korea, South Korea, East Asia, and Russian foreign policy. Beyond writings on
international issues, he has a broader academic interest in the comparative study of late industrialization and social change.
His research interests are community building and international relations theories, late industrialization, and IR. He is also interested in changing elite-mass relations in late industrializing countries. His recent
publications include: The Dynamics of Strong State (SNU Press, 2006), Late Industrialization, the State and Tradition: the Emergence of Neofamilism in Korea (2007, CPS), Colonial Social Change (ed.)(U. of
Washington Press, 2013), The International Impact of the Colonial Rule in Korea (UW Press, 2019), Geopolitics in Northeast Asia (2023), and Late Industrialization, Tradition and Social Change in South Korea (U. of Washington Press, 2024).
AGENDA
Refreshment - 3:00 pm
PSU K-pop dance performance - 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Announcement, award ceremony, & UG fellow presentation - 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Guest lecture by Dr. Yong-Chool Ha - 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm