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Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies International Workshop on the Korean War

May 13, 2010

▶ Period: Thursday, May 13th ~ Friday, May 14th, 2010.
▶ Venue: Seminar Room, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, SNU (Bldg. #103/ Rm. #112)
▶ Topic: “The Actors: The Korean War, 60 Years after the Outbreak”

[Program]

Thursday, May 13th
Chair : Prof. Park Tae Gyun (SNU)
10: 25 Welcoming Remarks: Prof. Noh Tae Don (Director, Kyunjanggak)

(1) Keynote Speeches
10:30 Rosemary Foot (Oxford University): The Korean War, 60 Years on: Strategic and Normative Consequences
11:15 Jung Keun Sik (SNU): Memory of the War after 60 Years

Lunch (12:00)

(2) Inside – During and after the War
13:30
   ㆍ Choi Jung Gie (Jeonnam Univ.): The Korean War - An Extension of Politics, or the Severance
       of Politics? - With an Emphasis on the Massacre of Civilians Before, During, and After
       the Korean War
   ㆍ Park Tae Gyun (SNU): The POW Question
   ㆍ Kim Young Mi (Kukmin Univ.): People in the So-called “Recovered Area” by South Korea
       during and after the Korean War- The Case of Yangyang County, Kangwon Province
Discussion

15:00
   ㆍ Kim Tae Woo (SNU): Towards an Unlimited War - The USAF’s Aerial Bombing of North Korea
       During the Korean War
   ㆍ Kim Gwi Ok (Hansung Univ.): Korean Division and Korean Diaspora: Focusing on Korean
       Residents in Japan
Discussion

Dinner (17:30)

Friday, May 14th
Chair : Prof. Sem Veermeersch (SNU)

(3) Outside – During and after the War (morning, May 14)
09:30
   ㆍ Kim Dong Gil (Peking Univ.): Adjustment of the Security Strategy of the Soviet Union: The Origin
       of the Korean War
   ㆍ Kanji Akagi (Keio Univ.): The Impact of the Korean War on Japan
Discussion

11:00
    ㆍ Laurent Quisefit (Université Denis Diderot): The Korean War as Seen from France: Public Opinion
        and Political Perceptions
    ㆍ Ryu Youngju (University of Michigan): Korean War Fiction and Magical Historicism
Discussant: Im Chong Myong