<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear Korean Studies members</font></span></p><p style="text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)">I am writing to remind you to register your interest in our MUKSRH seminar series, which is taking place the following Monday from 2 pm to 3 pm (AEDT). The registration is going to close tomorrow at 11:59 pm. Please see below for details. </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Monash University <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> Research Hub (MUKSRH) Presents:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Forthcoming events 2022</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b>Seminar 7 </b></span></font></p></div><span id="m_1860356764233213349m_5272802171608445249m_466302340775729698m_-4730924835728720398gmail-docs-internal-guid-def8c35b-7fff-d393-6916-1b17f702b319"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Speaker: </b></span><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr Dylan Stent (</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);white-space:pre-wrap">Victoria University of Wellington) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><b style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Date: </b><font color="#202124">3rd October Monday, 2 pm - 3 pm (</font><b><font color="#202124">AE</font><font color="#ff0000">D</font><font color="#202124">T</font></b><font color="#202124">) (</font><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">30 minutes talk, 30 minutes Q&A)</span></p></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Venue:</b> Hybrid (Zoom link & room details to be sent out on the 2nd of October, Sunday)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-align:center;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Title: </b></span><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-style:italic;font-weight:700">Continuity and Change: South <span class="gmail-il">Korea</span>’s Unification Policies in the Roh Tae-woo, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung </span><br></span></p></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">South <span class="gmail-il">Korea</span>’s approach to unification policy is commonly described as oscillating greatly from administration to administration since the introduction of a democratic system in 1988. However, I argue that there has been much more continuity than is generally expected. Using an historical institutionalist approach, I identify multiple necessary and facilitating conditions (including democratisation, ideological cleavages in South <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> politics, the end of the Cold War, and status competition with North <span class="gmail-il">Korea</span>) as relevant and impactful to understanding why South <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> leaders selected a particular approach to inter-<span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> affairs.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-style:italic;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Bio: </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);white-space:pre-wrap">Mr Dylan Stent is a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington, where his study focuses on South <span class="gmail-il">Korea</span>’s North <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> policies since democratisation in 1988. Dylan received his Master of Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span>. He has published work in academic and popular publications, including articles in <span class="gmail-il">Asian</span> Survey, The Diplomat, and NK News. </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">His study focuses on national security, identity, inter-<span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> diplomacy, and nationalism on the <span class="gmail-il">Korean</span> Peninsula.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></span></p><img src="cid:ii_l8dlgfpc0" alt="image.png" width="200" height="200" class="gmail-CToWUd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Register here: </span><b><font color="#9900ff"><a href="https://forms.gle/RSQTnHWfvXc5brmv5" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/RSQTnHWfvXc5brmv5</a></font></b></p><img src="cid:ii_l8maqpd60" alt="Untitled.png" width="229" height="229" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"></p></font></span></div><div>Warmest regards,</div></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><font size="4">Soyeon Kim</font></i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>PhD candidate/ Teaching associate </div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) research </span>assistant  </div><div>School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics</div><div>Monash University</div><div>Clayton, Victoria, 3800</div><div>Australia</div><div><br></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:Soyeon.Kim@monash.edu" target="_blank">Soyeon.Kim@monash.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div><img width="141" height="200" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zOSz1aLbruu9JZ8FmzL6teg9DBcvOHbIBmPrZjQ3mnbvnkmQCltV5dBC--i_TwM_bisXkdmao"><br></div></div></div></div></div>