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After the public lecture, a smaller group of scholars, policy-makers, and members of the media gathered at the Seoul Plaza hotel on Feb. 12th, 2008 for "The Wisemen Roundtable on Soft Power in Northeast Asia." The Korea Foundation and EAI co-organized this speaker panel with Prof. Nye and invited guests from the U.S., Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Korea all attending. The session was composed of two parts. In the first section, Prof. Jan Melissen (Netherlands Institute of International Relations), Prof. Yul SOHN (Yonsei University), and Prof. Shin-wha LEE (Korea University) gave presentations of their papers prepared for the conference. The second section consisted of an open discussion of the papers and the soft power concept. Hong-koo LEE, the present trustee of EAI and former prime minister, opened the Wisemen Roundtable with his welcoming remarks, and Sook-Jong LEE, the current EAI president, moderated the discussion.

The Korea Foundation and the East Asia Institute, both based in Seoul, held a "Wisemen Panel on Soft Power" after a public lecture by Professor Joseph S. Nye. The panel aims to raise public consciousness on the importance of soft power by inviting a group of "wisemen" to share their wisdom on soft power with the general public. The panel convened on February 12th, 2008 at the Seoul Plaza hotel.

Program Schedule

14:20~15:20 SCHOLARLY PANEL ON SOFT POWER IN NORTHEAST ASIA

Presentation of Papers

o "The New Public Diplomacy: Can It Be Done?" Jan MELISSEN, Netherlands Institute of International Relations
o "Soft power in East Asia" SOHN Yul, Yonsei University
o "Soft power in Korea" LEE Shin-wha, Korea University
15:20~16:20 Discussion
16:20~16:30 Coffee Break
16:30~18:00 WISEMEN ROUNDTABLE

Wisemen Panelists

o Barnett BARON, The Asia Foundation
o CHU Yun-Han, CCK Foundation
o HA Young-Sun, Seoul National University, EAI
o HAN Sung Joo, Korea University, EAI
o MOON Chung-In, Yonsei University
o Joseph S. NYE, Harvard University
o Kazuo OGOURA, The Japan Foundation
o Evans REVERE, The Korea Society
o YIM Sung-Joon, The Korea Foundation

Prof. Joseph Nye, Harvard University

Hong-Koo Lee, former prime minister

Sung-Joon Yim, The Korea Foundation

Barnett Baron, The Asia Foundation

Evans Revere, The Korea Society

Kazuo Ogoura, The Japan Foundation

Yun-han Chu, CCK Foundation

Jan Melissen, Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Sung Joo Han, Korea University, EAI

Young-sun Ha, Seoul National University, EAI

Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University

Moderator Sook-Jong Lee, EAI

Yul Sohn, Yonsei University

Shin-wha Lee, Korea University

On the back side: Jan Melissen, Shin-wha Lee, Chu Yun Han, Chung-in Moon,

Sung-joon Yim, Young-sun Ha, Yul Sohn

On the front side: Evans Revere, Kazuo Ogoura, Sung Joo Han, Hong-Koo Lee, Joseph Nye,

Barnett Baron, Sook-Jong Lee