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face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Upcoming Symposium at SUNY
Binghamton</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">After</FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'">
Neoliberalism</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: Democracy and Class in South
Korea</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Date: May 11-12,
2012</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=left><FONT face=Cambria><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Organized by the </FONT></SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'">Center for
Korean Studies </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">and sponsored by</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"> the Academy for
Korean Studies </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Grant for </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">the Overseas Leading University Program for Korean
Studies</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Keynote
Speaker</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hagen Koo (Univ. of Hawaii): “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Class Restructuration after East Asia’s ‘Growth with
Equity’”</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Roundtable</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: “Reassessing Democracy and
Development in East Asia”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=left><FONT face=Cambria><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Chair and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Discussant: Fredric Deyo
(SUNY-Binghamton)</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kyung-Sup Chang (Seoul National
Univ.): “Illiberal Bourgeoisie and Democracy under Late Development: The Korean
or Asian Dilemma”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">SangJun Kim (Kyung Hee Univ.):
“Overlapping Modernities and East Asia”</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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align=left><FONT face=Cambria><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Panel 1:</FONT></SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“Democracy and Politics in Neoliberal
Korea”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Chair and discussant: Yoonkyung Lee
(SUNY-Binghamton)</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Rakkoo Chung (SUNY-Albany): “</FONT></SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: tahoma">The
Third Wave of Democratization: Consolidation of Nominal
Democracy?</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Oh-Jung Kwon (Rutgers Univ.):
“Hegemonic Discourse and Institutional Ethos in the Politics of the Korean
Economic Crisis”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Woo Chang Kang (NYU): “Electoral
Cycles in Patterns of Tactical Allocation: The Analysis on the Intergovernmental
Transfers in South Korea 1989-2008”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Panel 2: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“Class and Social Structure in Neoliberal
Korea”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Chair and discussant:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> SangJun Kim (Kyung Hee
Univ.)</FONT><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"></I></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Myung Ji Yang (Brown Univ.): “The
Making of the Urban Middle Class in South Korea”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">SeongSoo Choi (Yale Univ.): “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Occupational Mobility in the Economic Crisis: The
Example of South Korea”</FONT></SPAN></FONT><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1"></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bongoh Kye (Cornell Univ.):
“Population aging and socioeconomic development in South Korea”</FONT></FONT><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For more information, email Organizer
Yoonkyung Lee (</FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A
href="mailto:yklee@binghamton.edu"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
color=#0000ff face=Cambria>yklee@binghamton.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria>) or Research Coordinator Chungse Jung (</FONT></SPAN><A
href="mailto:chungse.jung@binghamton.edu"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
color=#0000ff
face=Cambria>chungse.jung@binghamton.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Malgun Gothic'"><FONT
face=Cambria><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">).</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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