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U.S.-Korea Relations: Retrospective on the Jeju April 3 Incident, Human Rights, and Alliance

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Please join the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Korea Center, in cooperation with The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation and Walden Korea, for a featured conference entitled U.S.-Korea Relations: Retrospective on the Jeju April 3 Incident, Human Rights, and Alliance. The conference will bring together U.S. and South Korean scholars and experts to address various facts and controversies related to unresolved history, truth, justice, and reconciliation in the context of U.S.-Republic of Korea alliance.

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Event Sponsors

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy Indo-Pacific Program

Event Co-Sponsors

The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation

Walden Korea

Introductions

Sue Mi Terry
Sue Mi Terry
Former Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy
Ko Hee-bum
Chairman, The Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation

Panelists

Kathleen Stephens
President and CEO, The Korea Economic Institute of America; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Sung-Yoon Lee
Sung-Yoon Lee
Global Fellow;
Former Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, the Fletcher School, Tufts University
Suyeon Yang
Chairwoman, Walden Korea; Chairwoman, Jeju 4.3 Memorial and Families Association of the U.S.
Jo-hoon Yang
Member, The National Committee for Investigation of the Truth about the Jeju 4.3 Incident
John Merrill
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University; Former Chief of the Northeast Asia Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
Hojun Huh
Head of Research, The Jeju 4.3 Research Institute
Bruce Cumings (invited)
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago

Hosted By

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

The Center for Korean History and Public Policy was established in 2015 with the generous support of the Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Foundation to provide a coherent, long-term platform for improving historical understanding of Korea and informing the public policy debate on the Korean peninsula in the United States and beyond.   Read more

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.    Read more

Indo-Pacific Program