<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">The Korean Peninsula and

the Middle East at 60:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">History, Economy, and

Culture</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> 22-23 May 2022</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The

Hebrew University & Online via <a href="https://huji.zoom.us/j/82760844466?pwd=YklSQ2s0RGtMZVExQ25DRGFWaHNydz09" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Zoom Day 1</a> and <a href="https://huji.zoom.us/j/84221896224?pwd=YzZzU0lnL1VoRHJQKzFsRHFGSCsxdz09" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Zoom Day 2</a> - Jerusalem time <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference Program<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">22 May 2022,

Sunday<b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">10:00-10:30:

Greetings</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">H.E. Suh Dong Gu, the Ambassador of The Republic of

Korea in Israel </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">H.E. Akiva Tor, the Ambassador of The State of Israel

in Korea</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Prof. Nissim Otmazgin, The Dean of Humanities, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">10:30-12:00 Panel I: Political ties,

tensions, and possibilities in the Korea-Israel-the Middle East triangle</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Chair: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Satoru Miyamoto, Seigakuin University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Military

Cooperation between North Korea and Iran within North Korea’s Military

Cooperation Policy toward Middle East</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo and Tel Aviv

University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">North Korea's Relations

with Egypt: A Personal Tie or Institutional Memory?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Alon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Israel-South Korea relations: The first six decades</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">14:00-16:30 Roundtable: <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Conflict management

on the Korean Peninsula and in the East Asian Region: Challenges and

opportunities from a conflict analysis and resolution lens</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Chair:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> Galia

Press Barnathan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Discussants</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: Roland Wilson, George

Mason University and Alon Levkovitz, Bar Ilan University<span style="font-size:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">17.00-18:30:

Keynote speech</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_4896461997925392273__heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Chair: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">Irina

Lyan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Balázs

Szalontai, Korea University<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hard power and soft power in Korean-Middle Eastern relations:

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The lessons of history, the challenges of the present,

the hopes of the future</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">23 May 2022,

Monday</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">10:30-12:00: Panel II: Historical

parallels, the Cold War memories, and representations of North Korea in the

Middle East and vice versa</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Chair</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">: Or Rabinovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Dafna Zur, Stanford University </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The

Diary of Anne Frank in North Korea and the Politics of Self-Writing </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Balázs Szalontai, Korea University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Maneuvering

between Baghdad and Tehran: North Korea’s Relations with Iraq and Iran during

the Cold War </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Pyung Hwa (Tim) Park, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Aggression against them is aggression against us: North

Korea, the Yom-Kippur War, and the Israel factor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">13:30-15:00: Panel III: Korean cultural

diplomacy in the Middle East</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Chair: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">Guy Shababo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem <b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Young A Jung, George Mason University </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">When “Squid Game” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">m<span style="color:black">eets Arab </span>p<span style="color:black">arody</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Aviya Amir, University of California,

Riverside<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">K-Talmud:

Jewish texts as Korean children’s education<span style="background:yellow"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Irina Lyan and Nissim Otmazgin, The

Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Fandom makes the world go round: Practice, institutions, and

entrepreneurship among Hallyu fans in Israel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center">This conference is supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant

Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-C-016), the Leonard Davis

Institute for International Relations, the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian

Studies, and the International Office at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">* * *</span><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Irina Lyan, PhD</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Head, Korean Studies Program</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Department of Asian Studies</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:irina.lyan@mail.huji.ac.il" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">irina.lyan@mail.huji.ac.il</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px">Website: <a href="http://www.irlyan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.irlyan.com<br></a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><a href="http://www.irlyan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img width="200" height="85" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wBCe5epBbC8aulczcwT8VdvVJlXy0fis1hWP1lApQf3ECLppPLQViVgt2AA7OEuaGmvj8SWqc"><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>