<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_-7928281529465715548gmail-m_7179961157119557440gmail-docs-internal-guid-879ee250-1955-7728-b3cb-9a714274f399" style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Dear Korean Studies Online Discussion List subscribers,</font></span><br></p><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Engage Korea is a student­-driven humanitarian and educational initiative on North Korea. We hosted our debut conference at Oxford University in 2013, and we followed this successful meeting with an equally stimulating congress at Harvard University in 2014 and University of Cambridge in 2015 that brought together graduate students, junior scholars, and seasoned professionals to discuss ways of offering education, healthcare, and economic opportunities to the people of the DPRK.  </font></span></p><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">In an effort to extend our discussions outside of our conference venues, we are now offering our online educational courses on the DPRK featuring academics and professionals with extensive knowledge about the DPRK. These short courses are designed for scholars, practitioners, policy analysts and qualified students who are selected through an application process. We launched our first course  on healthcare in the summer of 2015.  In the summer of 2017, we will offer a second iteration of the healthcare course and will also offer an economic engagement course.</font></span></p><font face="garamond, serif"><br><br></font><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="244"><col width="164"><col width="137"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:42pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Courses in 2017</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Dates offered</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Application Deadline</font></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Healthcare</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Mid-July to mid-August</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 28,2017 </span><a href="http://engagekorea.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=97fb394bb6c695746b3a964f1&id=cb38b74315&e=44e4d1c95f" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Form</span></a></font></p></td></tr><tr style="height:42pt"><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Considering Economic Engagement</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">12 June to 6 August</font></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:5pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 28, 2017 </span><a href="http://engagekorea.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=97fb394bb6c695746b3a964f1&id=9b51d0695b&e=44e4d1c95f" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Form</span></a></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The cost of each DPRK Webinar Series Short Course is US$5.00, which will be collected through PayPal to help cover online platform costs and administrative fees. Any remaining funds will be used to help Engage Korea further its educational efforts. Questions should be directed to </span><a href="mailto:engagekorea@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">engagekorea@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Find out more about us at </span><a href="http://www.engagekorea.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.engagekorea.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and please sign up for our listserv if you are interested. </span></font></p><div style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail-m_-7928281529465715548gmail-h5"></div></div></div>