The Korea Program is part of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Scholarly Publications
Ten Years of Korean Studies at Stanford
February 2011
To mark the tenth anniversary of its founding, Stanford's Korean Studies Program published Ten Years of Korean Studies at Stanford, a comprehensive overview of its globally recognized research,...
Journal of Korean Studies, volume 9
October 2004
Between 1979 and 1992, the JKS became a leading academic forum for the publication of innovative in-depth research on Korea.
North Korea and Identity Politics in South Korea
October 2008
At his inauguration, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak proclaimed that his country “must move from the age of ideology into the age of pragmatism.” At a time when South Korean voters were...
Other Publications
Addressing the North Korea Nuclear Challenge
April 2003
North Korea's renewed bid for nuclear weapons poses an urgent, serious foreign policy challenge to the United States.
Korean Food, Korean Identity: The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture
December 2005
One of the few ways to get a taste of North Korea, short of leaping through numerous hoops to get a visa to visit the country, is to eat cold noodles (naengmyen).
Journal of Korean Studies Information Brochure
March 2006
The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is dedicated to high-quality articles, in all disciplines, on a broad range of topics concerning Korea, both historical and contemporary.
News
Sneider: Cautionary lessons for U.S.-Korea relationship
March 2008
Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC, gives a few cautionary lessons on U.S.-Korea relations.
New course on North Korea profiled in Stanford Magazine
March 2008
The March/April 2008 issue of Stanford Magazine profiles a new course on North Korea taught by Robert Carlin, a Shorenstein APARC Pantech Fellow.
Pantech Group awards $2 million to Korean Studies Program at APARC
April 2004
Korea's leading companies have awarded a $2 million gift to support the Korean Studies Program at APARC.
Old Events
Korean Nationalism and Transnational Sports
November 2, 2001
In recent years, Koreans playing in mass-mediated sports, such as Major League Baseball and the LPGA, have become important sites of transnational ethnic imagining for Koreans in the United States....
Democratic Consolidation and Social Protest in Korea
October 24, 2007
This talk will examine the patterns and characteristics of the "politics of protest" by civil society actors in South Korea after its democratic transition in 1987.
Projects
New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations
The New York-based Korea Society and Stanford University's Walter H.
English
Does Perception Matter in International Relations?: Trends in US and Korean Media Coverage of the Alliance, 1992-2004
For much of the U.S.-ROK alliance's fifty-year history, it was considered one of the most successful political-military relationships forged out of the Cold War era.
English
Reconciliation and Cooperation in East Asia
By linking internal, external, and regional aspects of historical injustice, the project seeks to move beyond state-oriented approaches and binary categories such as victim versus aggressor in...
English
Multimedia
Enhancing South Korea's Security: The U.S. Alliance and Beyond
March 2009
Two decades ago, South Korea appeared on the path to greatly increased security. The Cold War was ending, fundamentally improving South Korea’s regional security environment.
North Korea: Whither Kim Jong-un in 2015?
April 2015
The audio and transcript from the event "Whither Kim Jong-un in 2015?" a seminar presentation by Ambassador Kim Sook, the 2014-15 Pantech Fellow in the Korea Program, and former Republic of Korea Ambassador to the United Nations.Last year was...
The United Nations at 70: A Conversation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
June 2015
Video from the event "The United Nations at 70: A Conversation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon" moderated by Ambassador Kathleen Stephens. The event was co-sponsored by the Walter H.
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