The Center for Korean Studies is pleased to announce that the 23rd World Korea Forum will be held on June 29-30, 2022 at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium. The event will be co-hosted by the Center and the Korean Global Foundation in a hybrid format both in person as well as via zoom webinar format.

Venue: [In-person] The Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

[Hybrid: register at the following link.]

Time: June 29, 2022 from 9:00am- 6:20pm & June 30, 2022 from 9:00am to 6:20pm

The World Korea Forum is an annual international peace forum for global opinion leaders hosted by the Korea Global Foundation. Starting with New York in 2000, it presents a roadmap for peace and prosperity in our era of change and progress through a discourse of debate with leaders and experts from all major fields of the international community yearly in the global cities. The 23rd World Korea Forum 2022 will be held with the characteristic background of 140 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and the United States and 120 years of Korean-American immigrants. You are cordially invited to the event.

The event is open to the public, and all of you are welcome to join in person. : If you want to join the event via Zoom, please register at the following link.

Speakers (Professors, Lawmakers, and Experts): Tsangchu Rhee, Tae-Ung Baik, David Lassner (University of Hawaii President), Seok-in Hong (Consul General of ROK), Joseph DeTrani , Shi Yinhong, Sangmo Chung, Rob York, Satoshi Shirai, Joo Hyun Kim, Sung Min Kim, Laura Rockwood, Jaewoo Shin, Banseok Yim, Sang Seok Lee, Kidae Yang, Jangwon Jin, Karl Kim, SeungJae Lee, Shinhae Lee, Jaeyoung Kim, David Santoro, Ursula Stenzel, Honggul Kim, Eunhee Cho, Glyn Ford, Hyangja Yang, Hyun-chul Yeo, Jiyoon Chung, Jesook Song, Sang Seok Lee, Do-won Koh, Mitch Roth, Duk Hee Lee Murabayashi, Kyoung-hee Moon, German Kim, Jooyong Kim

Session Schedule

June 29, 2022

09:00-10:00 Opening Session The Cooperation and Development

10:20-12:50 Session I: The Political Economy & Diplomacy: Standing Together for Better World- East Asia

14:00-16:00 Session II: Peace, Prosperity & Unification of Korea and Foreign Powers

16:20-18:20 Session III: Trans-Eurasia Exchange and Silk-Road: Peach & Prosperity Highway

June 30, 2022

09:00-11:30 Session IV: US-China Strategic Relations in an Era of Nuclear Multipolarity and Focus on US Alliances and in Particular Korea

13:00-15:30 Session V: Intercultural Dialogue- Peaceful Coexistence and Diaspora in the Humanities

15:50-18:20 Session VI Hawaiian Multi-Ethnic Multicultural Society

For a full draft program, please visit this link! Thank you!