South Koreans' Perception of North Korea Issues

Friday, October 9, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Pacific)

Philippines Conference Room
Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central, C330
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Speaker:

Myoung-kyu Park

Myoung-kyu Park is a professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University. Professor Park is one of South Korea's leading scholars of the North Korea problem, Korean identity and nationalism, and popular attitudes toward Korean unification. He is an FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor at Stanford for the fall 2015.

In this talk, Professor Park will examine South Koreans' perception of North Korea-related issues: denuclearization, human rights, security, cooperation, and unification. Based on data from annual surveys conducted by IPUS during 2007-2015, Professor Park will discuss South Korean psychological attitudes, the generational gap, and general trends and policy orientation regarding North Korea.

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