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[Korea Global Forum 2014] ECFR-EAI “East Asia after Unification of the Korean Peninsula”

Events | 2014-06-24

Editor's Note

On June 24, a joint conference organized by East Asia Institute (EAI) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) convened in Tokyo, Japan, on the issue of “East Asia after Unification of the Korean Peninsula.” The conference invited European policy exerts and former officials who visited the EU Delegation in Tokyo as representatives of the ECFR. During the first session, the European and Korean delegates discussed the lessons President Park Geun-Hye’s administration can take from the European experience and the fall of the Berlin Wall in her realization of Trustpolitik. The second session tested various hypothetical scenarios and outcomes of the Korean unification, bring the perspectives of India, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and other East and Southeast Asian countries that share the stakes of the unification.

Program

14:00~15:10

Session 1 Preparing for Unification: Advancing Trustpolitik and Lessons from Europe

Moderator
Hans KUNDANANI, Research Director, ECFR

Presenters
PARK Ihn-whi, Professor, Ewha Women’s University
Angela STANZEL, Asia & China Program Policy Fellow, ECFR

Discussants from EAI
CHUN Chaesung, Professor, Seoul National University
LEE Tae-Sik, Professor, Yonsei University; Former South Korean Ambassador to the United States
SHIN Kak-Soo, Director, Center for International Law at Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security;

Former South Korean Ambassador to Japan

15:10~15:30

Tea Break

15:30~17:00

Session 2 The Regional Implications of Unification

Moderator
HA Young-Sun, Chairman, EAI

Presenters
CHUN Chaesung, Professor, Seoul National University
Robert DUJARRIC, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University in Tokyo
Srikanth KONDAPALLI, Professor in Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal

Nehru University in New Delhi
Nguyen Vu TUNG, Director of the Eastern Sea Studies Institute, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
Yoshihide SOEYA, Professor, Keio Institute of East Asian Studies
Steven C. M. WONG, Deputy Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS),

Malaysia
You JI, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute in Singapore
Teresa GOUVEIA, Former Portuguese Foreign Minister