<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;color:black">The
Center for Korean Studies</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">University
of California, Berkeley</span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16pt">Cordially
invites you to the following colloquium</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">What Is
Going On In North Korea?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Lecture |
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>April 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">| 223 </span></span><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?moses" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Moses
Hall</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Speaker: <b>Victor
Cha</b>, Georgetown University & Center for Strategic and International
Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsors: </span><a href="http://iis.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute of
International Studies</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Center for
Korean Studies (CKS)</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">What is going
on in North Korea? Do recent events signal an opening in the system or a
spiraling down of the system? What challenges do the United States and its
allies face? <br>
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Professor Victor D. Cha (Ph.D. Columbia, MA Oxford, BA Columbia) is director of
Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song Chair in the Department of Government and
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2009, he was named as
Senior Adviser and the inaugural holder of the new Korea Chair at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He left the White
House in May 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the
National Security Council. At the White House, he was responsible primarily for
Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Island nation
affairs. Dr. Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States
at the Six Party Talks in Beijing, and received two Outstanding Service
commendations during his tenure at the NSC.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event
Contact: </span><a href="mailto:rexille@berkeley.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">rexille@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">510-642-2474</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">_________________________________________________________</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt">And
other upcoming events…</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">What am I?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Colloquium: Center for Korean
Studies | <b>April 11 | 4 p.m. </b>| <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?b2223"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute of East Asian Studies (2223
Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a>, Conference Room</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Speaker: <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://cloud-path.tumblr.com/"><b><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Hyon Gak Sunim</span></b></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsor: <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Center for
Korean Studies (CKS)</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">In this world, which is torn by
politics, religion, materialism, human beings believe too much that their
thinking and ideas and beliefs are real. They attach to these ideas and
beliefs, and they fight over them -- this only leads suffering. The word for
that is "ignorance". Not only that, but through their intense desire,
anger and ignorance, human beings are exterminating all life on this planet through
a mindless pursuit of material comfort and temporary ease. If human beings do
not soon "wake up," they risk ending life for so many species of
living things, not only themselves.<br>
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"Zen" (meditation) means returning to the fundamental, true Self - which
comes before nationality or religion. An American-born Zen monk and graduate of
Yale and Harvard, Hyon Gak Sunim ordained as a monk in 1992. In his talk, he
will stress that meditation is not based on religion, belief, or dogma. It is
scientifically tested, peer-reviewed and affirmed technology for human beings
to reach their innermost depths and most creative possibilities.<br>
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As we well know, recent scientific studies have proven that meditation frees up
creative forces, unleashes unconscious creativities, and generates
non-sectarian bases for genuine fellow-feeling and modes of compassionate
interaction. The explosive field of neuroplasticity itself proves that when
human beings spend even just a few minutes a day, following their breath and
noticing deeply their thought-patterns, they are subtly freed from entrapping
patterns of thought and feeling. This talk will introduce to the public the
basic teaching of Zen, and its central technology of looking into one's true
nature.<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event Contact: <span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a>, </span>510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Event Contact:<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span>510-642-5674</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">For updates on upcoming events,
please visit:</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">CKS Website: <a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/" target="_blank">http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/</a> or
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