[KS] A European Perspective on the Current Situation in the DPRK

[Bernhard Seliger]

Invitation to a public lecture at the North Korea International Documentation Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

A European Perspective on the Current 
Situation in the DPRK 


May 06 2010, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
   

Event Details   Based on his experience overseeing the North Korea Trade Capacity 
Project and multiple trips to North Korea, Dr. Bernhard Seliger, 
representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea will speak about 
the current situation in the DPRK. The discussion will be moderated by James F. Person, Project Coordinator of the North Korea International 
Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center. 

Dr. Bernhard Seligeris currently
resident representative of Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea, based in Seoul, consulting NGOs, academic and public
institutions in questions of unification. Also, he manages the capacity building
projects of Hanns Seidel Foundation in North Korea, among them the EU-DPRK trade capacity project, one
of the two first Asia Invest programmes in North Korea. In 2006 the honorary
citizenship of Seoul was conferred by the
current president of South Korea, then mayor Lee Myung-Bak, on Bernhard Seliger. Dr. Bernhard Seliger is associate editor and book review editor of North
Korean Review, a SCCI-covered journal, and founding editor of the website www.asianintegration.org.  
 
Since 2007,
Dr. Seliger is senior lecturer (Privatdozent Dr.habil.) at the Institute for
Research Into Culture and Economic Systems, University of Witten/ Herdecke (Germany). From 2004-2006 Dr.
Seliger was guest professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration of
Seoul National University and at the Graduate School of International Area
Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Before, Dr. Seliger was from
1998 to 2002 Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Area
Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From 1995 to 1998 Dr. Seliger
worked as Assistant Researcher at the Institute for Economic Policy,
Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel (Germany), where
he received a doctorate (Dr.sc.pol.) in 1998. Dr. Seliger holds a degree (Maitrise en sciences
économiques) from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, France). Among the research interests of Dr.
Seliger are institutional economics, economics of transformation and
integration and the economic development of Korea in Northeast Asia. 
The 
Hanns Seidel Foundation is an independent German think tank located 
in Munich. Its main tasks are political education and research, 
consulting in a variety of policy fields, international cooperation and 
development. The Foundation's Institute for International Contact and 
Cooperation has been involved in development projects throughout the 
world for over 20 years and remains active in 55 countries. From 2006 to 2009 the Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea carried out an EU-financed 
program to bring basic knowledge on trade to North Korean managers, 
economic administrators and academics as part of the "EU-DPRK Trade 
Capacity Project."

Contact: 

North Korea International Documentation Project
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: nkidp at wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4305

 
Dr. Bernhard Seliger
Hanns Seidel Stiftung - Seoul Office
Room 501, Soo Young Bldg., 64-1, Hannam 1 Dong, Yongsan-gu
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Tel.+ 82 2 790 5344
Fax. + 82 2 790 5346


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