Volume XX, Number 1 April 25, 2001
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Newsletter for The Association Of Korean Political Studies In North America
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President:
Kyung-Ae Park Editor:
Seung-Ho Joo Assistant
Editor: Jennifer Falzerano
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We are pleased to announce that Mr. Yoo Taehyun, South Korea’s Consul General in San Franciso, has graciously agreed to host the dinner for APSA/AKPSNA panel participants on August 31 during the San Francisco APSA Annual Meeting. More details will follow as they become available.
Three AKPSNA Panels to be Presented at
the 2001 Meeting
Department of Political Science
Papers: “The Korean Peace Process”
Tae-Hwan Kwak
Eastern Kentucky
University
THKwak@hotmail.com &
Seung-Ho Joo, University of Minnesota, Morris
“Divided Families in
the Republic of Korea: An Assessment of
the ‘Sunshine’ Policy”
James A. Foley,
University of Sheffield
“The ‘Sunshine Policy’ Revisited: A Critical Analysis of the Reconciliatory
Posture of the Seoul Government and the United States”
Yu Nam Kim, Dankook
University
“The Role of
Uncertainty in the Korean Peninsula”
HeeMin Kim, Florida
State University
Jun Y. Choy, Florida
State University
Discussants:
Chae-jin Lee,
Claremont McKenna College
J.O. Ra, Hollins
University
Papers:
Tong
Whan Park, Northwestern University
“Incident
at No Gun Ri: Legal and Political
Repercussions of the July 1950 Killing of South Korean Refugees”
Johathon
D. Greenberg, Standford University
Discussants:
Edward A. Olsen, Navel
Postgraduate School
Chair: Hung Nack Kim
West
Virginia University
Papers:
“Regionalism and the
Vote in South Korean Elections: An
Analysis Based on Variance Components”
Eric C. Brown,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sunwoong Kim,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Economic
Restructuring in South Korea”
Peter Beck, Korean
Economic Institute of America
“Economic Management
in the Post-Developmental State Korea”
Jongryn Mo, Yonsei
University
“Transformation of the
South Korean State”
Bum-Soo Chon, State
University of New York-Buffalo
Erick Duchesne, State
University of New York-Buffalo
Sunhyuk Kim,
University of Southern California
Discussants:
Marn J. Cha,
California State University-Fresno
Wonmo Dong, University
of Washington
Pacific Focus invites submission of manuscripts dealing with all aspects of politics, economics, societies and culture of the Pacific region and its countries. The journal is a refereed biannual published by the Center for International Studies, Inha University. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted in triplicate, along with author’s note. Footnotes, following the Chicago Manual style, should be numbered consecutively, typed double-spaced, and placed at the end of the manuscript. For further information, contact Professor Kwang Il Baik, Editor-in-Chief, Center for International Studies, Inha University, Inchon, Korea. Tel: 011-82-32-860-7963; e-mail: intstudy@dragon.inha.ac.kr,
The International Journal of Korean Studies
is published twice a year by the International Council on Korean Studies, a
non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Korean studies in the
United States and abroad. The
journal's editors welcome submission of papers dealing with various aspects of
modern Korea. For further information,
please contact Professor Hong Nack Kim, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal
of Korean Studies, Department of Political Science, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV 26506-6317. Tel. (304)
293-3811; Fax: (304) 293-8644; e-mail:
hongkim@wvu.edu
The
American Asian Review (AAR), a refereed quarterly on
contemporary Asian affairs, is currently under the editorship of T.J.
Cheng. The AAR particularly welcomes
submission of manuscripts on contemporary Korean political economy, society,
security affairs, and external relations.
A typical AAR manuscript is 25 pages long, double-spaced, and footnoted
(rather than end-noted) following the Chicago manual. Manuscripts—to copies each—should be sent to: TJ Cheng, Department of Government, College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, Tel: 757-221-3032; Fax:
757-221-1868; e-mail: tjchen@wm.edu
Professor Tae-Hwan
Kwak is now devoted to research activities in Seoul after resigning as
President of the Korean Institute of Nation Unification (KINU). He can be reached at: Chongro-ku, Kugi-dong
36-12, Samsung-woonjung-villa C-204, Seoul, Korea 110-011; Tel:
011-82-2-3217-2105 (Seoul); e-mail: THKwak@hotmail.com
Professor Dalchoong
Kim has returned to Yonsei University (Seoul) as a faculty member of the
Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, after resigning as Director of
the Sejong Institute. His new contact information is: Tel: 011-82-2-2123-2946;
fax: 011-82-393-7642; e-mail: dkim38@yonsei.ac.kr
Professor Chung-in Moon
was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei
University in August 2000. He was also
elected Vice President of the International Studies Association at the 42nd
Annual Convention of ISA in Chicago on Feb. 20, 2001.
The International
Council on Korean Studies (ICKS, President Dr. Hang Yul Rhee) will have its
Annual Conference under the theme of “The Korean War after Fifty Years:
Challenges to Peace and Prosperity.”
The conference will be held on June 22-24, 2001 at the Sheraton National
Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Four
panels will be presented at this conference, each with twenty papers, twenty
discussants, and a photo exhibit.
Please visit the ICKS website for further information: http://www.icks.org/conf/conf2001.htm
or contact Dr. Hugo Wheegook by e-mail: hugokim@ewri.org
Dr. George Totten
reports the following: Professor Emeritus George Totten, chair of the University
of Southern California’s Korea Project, recently hosted Prof. Tuk Chu Chun of
Soongsil University for a six-month visit at guest of the Korea Project. His research in Los Angeles compared the
political consciousness of Korean Americans here with a similar cohort in
Seoul. During his stay, Dr. Chun gave a
public presentation on his findings and wrote an impressive article explaining
his findings.
Dr. Totten was invited
by the Nobel Peace Price Institute to attend the presentation of the Prize to
President Kim Dae Jung on December 10, 2000, in Oslo. Dr. Totten also attended the speech President Kim gave in the
Swedish Parliament two days later. Dr.
Totten had served as the Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at the
University of Stockhom from 1985-1989 and had nominated President Kim for the
prize.
Dr. Kyung Moon Hwan, a
Harvard PhD and a member of the USC History Department, is the Vice Chair of
the Korea Project. Its advisors are Dr.
Sunhyuk Kim, a Stanford PhD and a member of the USC Political Science
Department, and Dr. Man Cha, a USC PhD, or Fresno State University.
Professor C.S. Eliot Kang at the Political Science Department, Northern Illinois University, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure.
Dr Young C. Kim at George Washington University has changed his contact information to the following: Young C. Kim, Visiting Professor, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Japan; Tel: 81-3-3453-4511; Fax: 81-3-5427-1640; e-mail: yckim700@tkk.att.ne.jp
Soong-bum Ahn has also changed his contact information to the following: Soong-bum Ahn, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, US Army Fellow, RAND, 1700 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90407; Tel: 310-393-0411 (6681); e-mail: ahnsb@rand.org
Harrison, Selig S. "Time to Leave Korea?" Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001.
Joo, Seung-Ho and Tae-Hwan Kwak (eds.). The Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century (New York: Nova, 2001) (forthcoming).
Moon, Chung-in and Jongryn Mo, Economic Crisis and the Politics of Structural Reforms in South Korea (The Economic Strategy Institute, 2000).
Moon,
Chung-in and Soong-hoom Kil (eds), Korean Politics: An Introduction
(Albany: The State University of New York Press, 2001).
Moon, Jae and
Welch, Eric, “Managerial Adaptation through the Market: Theoretical Framework
and Four Models,” International Review of Public Administration,
(forthcoming).
Oh, Kongdan and
Ralph Hassig. North Korea Through the Looking Glass (Brookings
Institution Press, 2000).
Park, Kyung-Ae and Dalchoong Kim (eds.), Korean
Security Dynamics in Transition (St. Martin's Press, May 2001).
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President: Kyung-Ae Park, Univ.
of British Columbia
Vice-President: HeeMin Kim, Florida
State Univ
Executive
Secretary/Treasurer:
Seung-Ho Joo, Univ. of
Minnesota-Morris
Governing Board: (term
in parenthesis)
Won
Mo Dong, Southern Methodist Univ. (98-01)
Hee-Min
Kim, Florida State Univ. (98-01)
Han
S. Park, Univ. of Georgia (98-01)
Kyung-Ae
Park, Univ. of British Columbia (99-02)
Aie-Rie
Lee, Texas Tech Univ. (99-02)
Tong
Whan Park, Northwestern Univ. (00-03)
Russell
Mardon, California State Univ.-Fresno (00-03)
*All inquiries or news
information you wish to share should be directed to Dr. Seung-Ho Joo,
University of Minnesota-Morris, 109 Camden, Morris, MN 56267. Tel: 320-589-6203 (O); 320-589-3889 (H);
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