[KS] The 68th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (IMKS, Yonsei University)

김혁래 hyukrae at yonsei.ac.kr
Tue Mar 27 11:48:38 EDT 2007


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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 68th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, April 3rd at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Professor A.F.M. Shamsur Rahman, Department of History, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The discussant is Professor Ajin Choi, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. The title of his talk is “Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) and its Grants Assistance Policy toward Bangladesh

: An Analysis.” The abstract of his paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract:
            Since its foundation in 1991, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has been rendering valuable services for the socio-economic infrastructural development of . has experienced a long history of colonial rule, first by  and after 1947 by . Located in a tropical area of South Asia, has been almost regularly prone to such natural calamities as cyclones, floods, tidal bores and so on. Moreover, having the size of the Wisconsin state of the United States, it has a population of about 140,000,000, the production of foods and other necessities for which has become a challenge for Bangladesh. In this situation, KOICA has been trying to help
            
            in achieving self-sufficiency in different sectors of its economy by implementing different constructive programs. KOICA's grants assistance for is a combination of many, such as project type cooperation, training programs, dispatching of Korean experts to and sending KVC or Korean Volunteer Corps to
            
            . Moreover, under “Tailor Made Package” programs KOICA has been providing assistance of different sorts for the eradication of poverty and the development of a sound basis for industrialization
            
            . 
            KOICA's assistance to Bangladesh and  to other developing countries has given birth to many questions amongst political economy  scholars and  ODA experts, such as why Korea has been providing such kind of assistance to Bangladesh and similar other countries? To what extent KOICA's assistance is effective in 's poverty eradication? Does KOICA operates by itself in implementing its programs or it carries out its programs through other channels? Attempts will be made in this paper to highlight these questions with the help of published KOICA reports, manuals and interviews of KOICA officials. Efforts will be undertaken for an assessment of KOICA's grants in aid programs relating to economy, planning, technology and population control. 
            
            
        
    


 

Biography: 
A.F.M. Shamsur Rahman is Professor in the Department of History at the

University of

Rajshahi , Bangladesh.  He is Korea Foundation Fellow at the Graduate School of International Studies at


Sogang

University .  His topic of research concerns “South Korean Economic and Technological Assistance Policy toward Developing Countries: Bangladesh- A Case Study.”
Professor Rahman received his Master’s Degree in Contemporary International History at the

University of

Rajshahi , in 1975 and his Ph.D. in U.S. Diplomatic History at the


University of

Kansas in 1988.  After his Ph.D. he has done post-docs at

University of

Tokyo , Georgetown University, Korea University and presently at


Sogang

University .  His dissertation was on the “United States Economic and Military Assistance Policy toward during the Second World War and its Immediate Aftermath.”  His interests include U.S. and East Asian history and women’s studies, politics, economy, culture, and diplomacy.
 
 

 
 

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