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<p class="0" style="min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> 1) Theme : </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">Human Civilizations and Korean Studies</span></font></p>
<p class="0" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 23px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> 2) Dates : September 12 (Wed.) </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">14 (Fri.), 2018 </span></p>
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<p class="0" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> - Young-kyun Yang (Committee Chair/AKS) </span></p>
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<td><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">September 12 (Wed.)</span></p></td>
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<td><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">September 13 (Thu.)</span></p></td>
<td><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">Opening Ceremony</span></p><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">Panel sessions</span></span></p></td>
<td><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">Academy of Korean Studies</span></p></td>
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<td><p align="center" style="min-height: 21px;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: 굴림; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 굴림;">September 14 (Fri.)</span></p></td>
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<p class="0" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> 1) Please sign up at the WCKS website (http://congress.aks.ac.kr), click Call for Abstracts, and submit the required documents (MS Word files only). </span></p>
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<p class="0" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> 1) Accommodation: Three nights of lodging (two persons per room) will be provided from 12nd to 15th September.</span></p>
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<p class="0" style="line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> * The regular price for a twin bed room is 220,000 won. AKS bears the cost of the balance amount.</span></p>
<p class="0" style="line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> * This rate does not apply to the presenters who are the residents in the metropolitan area of Korea. </span></p>
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<p class="0" style="line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> * Free accommodation (Two persons per room) will be provided for the student participants who come from the graduate schools outside of Korea. Please bring your student ID.</span></p>
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<p class="0" style="line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 27px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;"> 2) Meals: All meals during the event will be offered free of charge.(From dinner on 12nd</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">to breakfast on 15th</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">September)</span></p>
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<p class="0" style="line-height: 150%; letter-spacing: 0pt; min-height: 21px; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0pt; font-family: Arial Unicode MS; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial Unicode MS;">Graduate students are encouraged to apply for the Junior Scholar Prize. To apply, please check the option, “KOREAN STUDIES JUNIOR SCHOLAR PRIZE APPLICANT,” on the application form. </span></p>
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