Asia Institute Seminar
“Korea’s New Role as Global Development Partner”
May 25, 2012 (Friday)
6:30 PM
Speakers:
Peter M. Beck, Korea Representative for the Asia Foundation
Emanuel Pastreich, Director, The Asia Institute
Discussant:
Ki-Hwan Kim, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Korea Development Institute
The Critical New Role of the Traditional Hanok House
Emanuel Pastreich
9 May 2012
At a time that Koreans are playing such a critical role in the most advanced fields of technology, biotechnology, electronics, new materials and nano technology, there is one field of technology in which Korea has been losing ground and that has potential to be a billion dollar industry with profound implications for Korea’s global standing.
That field of technology is the traditional skills of carpentry and design associated with the building of the traditional Korean hanok house (한옥). Although few youth would consider this field of technology from the past as interesting career in an age in which new fields of science are opening up, a strong argument can be made that a massive investment in the technology of the hanok house is exactly what Korea needs at this point in its economic development.
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「ソンビ」を韓国の象徴に育てよう、日本の「サムライ」の様に
(韓国経済新聞 ２０１２年４月２０日)
イ・マンヨル慶煕大教授 （訳注：本名は”Emanuel Pastreich”米国生まれ）
慶煕（キョンヒ）大教授・比較文学
国際社会でサムスンやLGのような主要ブランドは良く知られ、特に優秀な品質で定評がある。し かし、世界中の人々にとって韓国という国は相変らずよく分からない国に過ぎない。米国の人々 は現代自動車を走らせサムスンテレビを見ながらも彼らが韓国と関連して新聞で見るのはソウル でおきることではなく、北朝鮮の長距離ロケット発射や北核問題程度だ。
At a time when I wince every time I see young women on television who have had their features so completely remodeled to match some computer-generated ideal, I found this sign, in English posted around Seoul this week. I do not know who put the stickers on walls and telephone poles, or why it is in English, but the stickers are intriguing nevertheless.
The Asia Institute Seminar with Professor Marc Shell
This article in the Kukmin Newspaper describes many of the topics related to the status of women in science in Korea that we have touched upon in these pages previously.
국민일보
2012년 4월 30일
“한국 여성과 과학기술의 발전”
Asia Institute Seminar
Annabel Park
Blogger and Activist
Founder of the Coffee Party
“Storytelling, Social Networks & Social Change”
Annabel Park, Korean American blogger and political activist, tells the inside story of how social change can be effected by stories in cyberspace.
A thoughtful article by Asia Institute’s senior associate Markku Heiskanen on the recent Seoul Nuclear Security Summit with Brookings Institution’s James Goodby.
MARCH 28, 2012
“The Seoul Nuclear Security Summit: New Thinking in Northeast Asia?”
James E. Goodby, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
Markku Heiskanen, Senior Associate and Program Director, The Asia Institute
The Nautilus Institute
The primary motive for convening the 2010 nuclear security summit was to address the unprecedented threat of nuclear materials in the hands of terrorists. This remains the main task of the summit, but two other security problems will be on the minds of participants: the Fukushima catastrophe of 2011 and the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran.
