<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
Korean Studies Program at the Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies and
the Korea Foundation cordially invite you to attend the 101^st/102^nd
Yonsei-Korea Foundation Korean Studies Forum. This scholarly meeting is
organized as a special conference to celebrate the 10^th anniversary
of the Forum.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
GSIS at Yonsei University and the Korea Foundation jointly operate this Forum
to provide channels of communication between current and upcoming scholars
focusing on Korea-related subjects including history, law, culture, politics,
religion and the arts. Ever since it was launched in 2001, more than 100
speakers have been invited to the Forum. The Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum has
provided an on-going venue for academic discussion that contributes in a broad
sense to the development of “Korean Studies”.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Date:
THURSDAY, July 8, 2010</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Time:
6 p.m.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Location:
Room 702, New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Schedule:</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Session Chair</span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hyuk-Rae
Kim (Professor, Yonsei University)</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">18:00-18:30</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:40.0pt;
line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Koen De Ceuster (Lecturer, Centre for
Korean Studies, Leiden University)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:40.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">“Carved in Stone. Public Memory and the
Politics of Remembrance in Contemporary Korea”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">18:30-19:00</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:40.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Alexander
Vorontsov (Head, Korean and Mongolian Studies Institute of Oriental Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:40.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">“Russia-Korea
Relations – Nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">19:00-19:30</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:40.0pt;
line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Discussion</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">19:30-20:30</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Congratulatory Address:</span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Ambassador
Young-Hee Hahn (Executive Vice President of the Korea Foundation)</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:
150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum 10^th
Year Anniversary Dinner Reception</span></p>

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:
40.0pt;line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sponsored
by the Korea Foundation</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
bios and abstracts of the presenters are at the end of this email.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:굴림;mso-bidi-font-family:굴림;color:black">No RSVP is
required. <br>
For directions, please refer to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:굴림;mso-bidi-font-family:굴림">http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:굴림;mso-bidi-font-family:굴림;color:black">.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:굴림;mso-bidi-font-family:굴림;color:black"><br>
Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:renateclasen@googlemail.com">renateclasen@googlemail.com</a> or at 010-4694-7504<br>
<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">We cordially ask you to attend the Yonsei-KF Korean
Studies Forum and honor us with your presence to celebrate the 10^th
anniversary of the Forum. We look forward to seeing you next week Thursday.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sincerely,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hyuk-Rae
Kim</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Professor, Korean Studies</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Yonsei University</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Bio: Koen De Ceuster</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
lectures on modern and contemporary Korean history at Leiden University, the
Netherlands. His 1994 dissertation charted the life of Yun Ch’iho (1865-1945)
from (cultural) nationalist to collaborator. He has consecutively worked on the
introduction and dissemination of modern nationalism, the YMCA’s social
programs during the colonial period, Korean contemporary historiography. In
addition, he has recently developed an interest in North Korean art theory and
practice.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Abstract:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> One aspect of the
struggle for democracy in Korea consisted of a rereading of the nation’s
history, challenging in particular the historical legitimacy of the
authoritarian state. This was most prominent in the debate on collaboration and
its legacy. Once the authoritarian state was toppled, the debate over “settling
the past” was no longer an academic exercise but became a social movement to right
the wrongs of the past. This process culminated in the establishment of the “Truth
and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea” (TRCK) in 2005, a
comprehensive attempt at dealing with past (state) injustices. As this process
formally nears its end, I ask how this process of state atonement is affecting
public memory. Has this been nothing but an exercise in alleviating individual
sorrow, or is there a lasting impact on how the nation looks back on its
history and reflects on its future?</span></p><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (MPVA) is the state’s foremost manager
of the memorial landscape. Among its many tasks is the proper commemoration of
those who gave their life for the development of the nation. With the
democratization of Korea, the commemoration of those who contributed to the
democratization struggle has been added to the portfolio of the MPVA. This
leads to the situation where the MPVA honours both the soldiers who died during
the suppression of the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, and the civilians killed during
that suppression. In this presentation, I show how complex and fractured the
memorial landscape is and how the MPVA succeeds in holding it all together.</span></div>

<div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br></span></b></div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br>
</span></b></div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Bio:
 </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Alexander Vorontsov</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> is currently the head of the Department for Korean
and Mongolian Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russia
Academy of Sciences. He also holds several teaching and research posts at the
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation Military Science Academy,
the Institute for Asian Studies at Osaka University of Economy and Law in Japan.
He is the member of the Russian part of the Russia-DPRK Intergovernmental
Commission dealing with trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He was visiting professor at the Hanguk
University of Foreign Studies in Seoul from 1998 to 2000; at the Ritsumeikan
University in Kyoto, Japan in 2009, as well as visiting fellow at the Brookings
Institution Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies in Washington D.C. in
2005-2006, graduated from Asia Pacific-Center for Security Studies Executive
Courses in Honolulu in 2005. Vorontsov served as second secretary in the
Russian Federation’s Embassy in Pyongyang from 2000 to 2002. Vorontsov holds a
Ph.D. in history from the Institute of Oriental Studies at the U.S.S.R. Academy
of Sciences, and has studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Pyongyang
Kim Il Sung University.</span></div>

<div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif""><br></span></b></div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Abstract:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">We
consider as important from the very beginning of the subject studying to define
its goal and make a brief characterization of Russian key interests on the
Korean Peninsula.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Moscow
regards both Korean states as partners. Their relationships have independent
value to Moscow and rest on principles of good neighborly interaction and
cooperation. Russia maintains a firm and genuine stand in favor of nuclear-free
status of the Korean Peninsula and proceeds from understanding that the North
Korean possession of nuclear weapons stands in fundamental contradiction to its
national security interests as well as goals of sustaining the global
nonproliferation regime.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">At the
same time, Russia’s first priority is and will be the goal of maintaining
peace, security, and stability on the Korean peninsula. Moscow believes that
due to sharing a common border with North Korea, any Korean armed conflict will
unavoidably inflict heavy damage to the military-and-political, economic,
environmental, humanitarian, demographic, etc. security of Russia.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">In this
way, in a hypothetical situation whereupon Russian leadership was facing a dilemma
whether to support military action against North Korea aimed at elimination of
its nuclear weapons or act towards preserving peace on the Korean peninsula,
Moscow will opt for the second path. In other words, Russia is firmly committed
to the nuclear disarmament of North Korea but exclusively by peaceful
diplomatic means.</span></div><br>