U.S. has limited options in dealing with North Korea
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David Straub, cting director of Shorenstein APARC's Korean Studies Program, spoke to Mike Shuster of NPR about the difficulties in inducing North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. After North Korea conducted its second test of a nuclear device over the weekend, Straub explained why China has not been as helpful in using its influence on North Korea as the United States government has hoped.
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Appointment of 2009-10 Pantech Fellow in Korean Studies Program
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The Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is pleased to announce that Peter M. Beck will join the Center for the 2009-2010 academic year. Beck's research will be on the impact of foreign media in North Korea. During his fellowship at the Center, he will hold seminars related to his research project and will be involved in various projects on Korea.
Beck teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. and Ewha University in Seoul. He also writes a monthly column for Weekly Chosun and The Korea Herald. Previously, he was the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group’s Northeast Asia Project in Seoul. He was also the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington. He has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification’s Policy Advisory Committee and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Yonsei universities.
He also has been a columnist for the Korean daily Donga Ilbo, an instructor at the University of California at San Diego, a translator for the Korea Foundation, and a staff assistant at Korea’s National Assembly and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has published over 100 academic and short articles, testified before Congress, and conducted interviews with the world’s leading media outlets. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, completed the Korean language program at Seoul National University, and conducted his graduate studies at U.C. San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Pantech Fellowships, generously funded by Pantech Co., Ltd., and Curitel Communications, Inc. (the "Pantech Group"), are intended to cultivate a diverse international community of scholars and professionals committed to and capable of grappling with challenges posed by developments in Korea. We invite individuals from the United States, Korea, and other countries to apply.
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 4)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Jun Ding, “Corporate Social Responsibility in State-Owned Enterprises”
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in China’s industrialization achievement and support social service functions in the planning era. After China entered the marketing era, SOEs declined substantially and are in need of reform. Ding believes SOEs should be restructured and that supernumeraries and social services functions should be separated from the primary mission of SOEs into society. Ding’s research emphasizes recommendations found in corporate social responsibility that exists in China.
Mitsutoshi Kumagai, “Impact on Growing On-line Video Services on Pay TV Business Model”
Recently, YouTube is not the only online video service many people enjoy. Big players of traditional broadcasting industries are making strategic approaches in online space. Kumagai’s presentation reviews and assesses those challenges in TV industries and its value as advertisement media.
Tadashi Ogino, “Smart Meters in the United States and Japan”
A smart meter is an advanced electric meter that measures the electricity usage in more detail than a conventional meter. Utility companies and customers can use this data for energy efficiency. A smart meter is a key component for the next generation electric grid. Many smart meters have already been installed in the US, but smart meters are not used in Japan. Ogino analyzes the current situation of smart meter projects in the US and in Japan. He tries to understand why smart meters are not prominent in Japan.
Ayaka Takashima, "Women Entrepreneurs in Japan and the United States”
Recently in Japan, women entrepreneurs have been becoming one of the career choices for women. As an employee of Nissouken, which provides entrepreneurship program, Takashima is trying to reveal women entrepreneurs' habitat and tendency through comparative research.
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Jun Ding
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Jun Ding is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. He is also currently the vice president of Petrochina Lanzhou petrochemical company. After receiving his bachelors degree, he joined the Lanzhou petrochemical company. During this time, he received his MBA from Dalian Technology University and his Doctorate in Chemical Physics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Most recently, Ding has been studying at Chemical Technology University in Beijing for the past four years, majoring in Polymer Chemical Engineering.
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Mitsutoshi Kumagai
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Mitsutoshi Kumagai is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at Sumitomo Corporation since 1993. He has been in charge of the international tradings, marketing of IT devices and developing new business as well as venture investment in the IT industry. He received his BS in Economics at Nagoya University in Japan.
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Tadashi Ogino is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-2009.
Ogino started his career as a researcher of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
After being involved in basic software research, he designed the software architecture
of the Mitsubishi Midrange Server, which was one of the most successful computer products
in Mitsubishi. He then worked on many software projects such as wireless base stations, digital right management (DRM) systems, RF-ID systems and others. He also has experience in marketing and planning sections. Currently, he is interested in business incubation in Japan especially in the software field. He received hi BS, MS, and Ph.D in computer engineering from The University of Tokyo.
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Ayaka Takashima is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. She is also an assistant manager of Nissoken which provides corporate clients with educational services for top management, middle management and other employees to align them to the corporate direction and strategies. As an employee of Nissoken, she will research the alignment between the company and the individual through the theory, case studies, empirical studies, etc.
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 3)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Jiecheng Cheng, “Knowledge Management of the Petroleum Enterprise”
Knowledge management as an effective tool to retain, capture, share and reuse organization knowledge. This is important in dealing with the problem of lost knowledge caused by a company’s growth, employee turnover, retirement, and the quandary caused by information explosion. Petroleum enterprises are more knowledge intensive and could benefit from knowledge management. Cheng’s research presents the concept and theory of knowledge management, the needed technologies, the role of the people, the key practical issues, and the future of knowledge management.
Yoshiko Moriguchi, “Demand Response by Smart Meters”
A smart meter is generally defined as a type of advanced electrical meter that enables to monitor the energy consumption at real time base or near real time base. It has the additional features more than simple automated meter reading and can provide customers with the feedback to encourage their actions for saving energy and money. In North America and Europe, many studies have been conducted to address the relation of data feedback and customer’s behaviors. Japanese utilities just started to consider installation of smart meters, therefore, this research will address the topics that can be referred to demand response by smart meters for residential customers in Japan.
Boyoung Shin, “Korea's Public Policy Profile Amidst Regime Change: Analysis of President Noh's Real Estate Policy”
After nearly half a century of conservatives in power, Korea’s center left party (the NCNP and the MDP ) won the presidential elections in 1997 and 2002 consecutively and became the ruling party until the beginning of 2008. This major transformation of power struggle structure in Korea subsequently led characteristic changes in the public policy making tendency of its administration. Yet, Korea still was in the midst of the Neo-liberalized way of economical and social structural reform that was guided by IMF since the1997 financial crisis. In his research Shin examines the Noh administration’s challenge to compensate its supporters by exploring its particular public policy: “Real Estate Policy of Noh Administration”.
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Yoshiko Moriguchi
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Yoshiko Moriguchi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09.
Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, she has worked at The Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) for fifteen years. She was involved in designing environmental equipments of power plants from the aspect of chemical engineering for more than 10 years. She also has comprehensive experience in operation and management of fossil power plants including management of energy efficiency. Her current interests are demand side managements utilizing methods of energy conservation. She graduated from Kyoto University with a BA in Chemical Engineering.
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Boyoung Shin is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09 and 2009-10. Boyoung graduated from the University of Southern California (BA in Econ) in 1990 and received his MBA from Yonsei University. He also has military experience as a Marine Officer serving 3.5 years. He had been elected as a Kyong-gi provincial council man twice. There, he had roles of the Chairman of the Special Committee of Budgets and Accounts, the Chairman of the Special Committee of Free Trade Agreements, the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and others.
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