<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><p>Invitation to a public lecture at the North Korea International Documentation Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars</p><p><br> <span class="dark_headline"> </span></p><p><span class="dark_headline">A European Perspective on the Current
Situation in the DPRK </span><br>
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<a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=230972&fuseaction=topics.events&themonth=5&n_owner_id=614079&theyear=2010"></a><br></p>
<p> <span class="lightblue_bold"> May 06 2010, 4:00 p.m.
- 5:30 p.m.<br>
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<b>Event Details</b>
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Based on his experience overseeing the North Korea Trade Capacity
Project and multiple trips to North Korea, <b>Dr. Bernhard Seliger</b>,
representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea will speak about
the current situation in the DPRK. The discussion will be moderated by <b>James
F. Person</b>, Project Coordinator of the North Korea International
Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center. <br>
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<b>Dr. Bernhard Seliger</b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> is currently
resident representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>, based in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:city>, consulting NGOs, academic and public
institutions in questions of unification. Also, he manages the capacity building
projects of Hanns Seidel Foundation in <st1:country-region w:st="on">North
Korea</st1:country-region>, among them the EU-DPRK trade capacity project, one
of the two first Asia Invest programmes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region></st1:place>. In 2006 the honorary
citizenship of <st1:city w:st="on">Seoul</st1:city> was conferred by the
current president of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South
Korea</st1:country-region></st1:place>, then mayor Lee Myung-Bak, on <st1:personname w:st="on">Bernhard Seliger</st1:personname>. Dr. <st1:personname w:st="on">Bernhard
Seliger</st1:personname> is associate editor and book review editor of North
Korean Review, a SCCI-covered journal, and founding editor of the website <a href="http://www.asianintegration.org/">www.asianintegration.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Since 2007,
Dr. Seliger is senior lecturer (Privatdozent Dr.habil.) at the Institute for
Research Into Culture and Economic Systems, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Witten</st1:placename>/ Herdecke (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>). From 2004-2006 Dr.
Seliger was guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration of
Seoul National University and at the Graduate School of International Area
Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Before, Dr. Seliger was from
1998 to 2002 Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Area
Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From 1995 to 1998 Dr. Seliger
worked as Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Economic Policy,
Christian-Albrechts-University at <st1:city w:st="on">Kiel</st1:city> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>), where
he received a doctorate (Dr.sc.pol.) in 1998. </span><span style="" lang="FR">Dr. Seliger holds a degree (Maitrise en sciences
économiques) from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France). </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Among the research interests of Dr.
Seliger are institutional economics, economics of transformation and
integration and the economic development of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>
in <st1:place w:st="on">Northeast Asia</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.hss.or.kr/indexEnglish.html" target="blanK">The
Hanns Seidel Foundation</a> is an independent German think tank located
in Munich. Its main tasks are political education and research,
consulting in a variety of policy fields, international cooperation and
development. The Foundation's Institute for International Contact and
Cooperation has been involved in development projects throughout the
world for over 20 years and remains active in 55 countries. From 2006 to
2009 the Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea carried out an EU-financed
program to bring basic knowledge on trade to North Korean managers,
economic administrators and academics as part of the "EU-DPRK Trade
Capacity Project."<br><br>Contact: <br><br>North Korea International Documentation Project<br>
Woodrow Wilson Center<br>
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza<br>
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.<br>
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:nkidp@wilsoncenter.org">nkidp@wilsoncenter.org</a><br>
Tel: 202/691-4305<br><div> </div><p>Dr. Bernhard Seliger</p><p>Hanns Seidel Stiftung - Seoul Office</p><p>Room 501, Soo Young Bldg., 64-1, Hannam 1 Dong, Yongsan-gu</p><p>Seoul, Republic of Korea</p><p>Tel.+ 82 2 790 5344</p><p>Fax. + 82 2 790 5346</p><div><br></div>
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