<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">2025 SHERMAN FAMILY KOREA EMERGING SCHOLAR LECTURE</span></b></div>

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<b>Dr. Peter Jongho Na</b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> MONDAY, NOVEMBER
10, 2025 | 4:00 PM (EST) </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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pleased to announce that the ninth annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar
Lecture Awardee is Dr. Peter Jongho Na, assistant professor of psychiatry at
Yale School of Medicine.  In his lecture, <i style="">Reframing Suicide as a
Shared Social Responsibility in Korea</i>, he casts suicide not as an individual
failure or \u201cextreme choice (</span><span lang="KO" style="color:black">\uadf9\ub2e8\uc801</span><span lang="KO" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="KO" style="color:black">\uc120\ud0dd</span><span style="color:black">),\u201d
but as a systemic and cultural crisis requiring a coordinated national
response. </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" 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"><span style="color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Drawing on his
experience as a psychiatrist, public health researcher, and mental health
advocate, he examines the scale and societal costs of suicide in Korea and
analyzes key structural drivers such as academic and workplace pressures,
poverty and isolation among older adults, and the pervasive stigma surrounding
mental illness and treatment. </font></span></p>

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stigma has sustained silence, denial, and policy inertia. </font></span></p>

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shares his efforts to challenge euphemistic language and foster open public
dialogue, while proposing an interdisciplinary roadmap inspired by global
models that integrate public health, education, and social welfare reforms.
Further, he highlights the Korean diaspora\u2019s potential role in breaking taboos
and advancing cultural and policy change, underscoring that suicide prevention
must be embraced as a collective, societal responsibility.<br></span><span style="color:black"><br></span><span style="text-align:center;color:black">Click </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="text-align:center;text-decoration-line:underline;color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI8kTarEXsNhMFUV7-Dh3k0yr74RPkwTeLFKbLwVKliQ3vWA/viewform" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">here</span></a></span></span><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span><span style="text-align:center;color:black">to <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>s<span class="gmail_default" style="">ign up to a</span>ttend this lecture in-person</span><span style="color:black"> <span class="gmail_default" style="">at The Korea Society</span><br></span><span style="text-align:center;color:black"><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span></span><span style="text-align:center;color:black">Click </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="text-align:center;text-decoration-line:underline;color:blue"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNFMa1P_Fk1z8ynGBclqVbD0_qS_D-AbXZ7bMSHWu0_9U69g/viewform" style="color:blue">here</a></span><span style="text-align:center;color:black"> to receive the<span class="gmail_default" style=""> virtual </span> viewing link<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></span></font></p>

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presentation includes discussion of suicide and mental health topics that may
be distressing to some individuals.</i></span> <br>
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further information and to visit past awardees, visit our <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.koreasociety.org/education/sherman-scholar-award-recipients/presentations-by-sherman-scholar-award-recipients" style="color:blue">website.</a></span>
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