Fall-2016 Orientation for the New Comers

As the starting of the fall-2016 semester, orientation for the new comers was held at Socheon Convention Hall on September 1, 2016.  The Socheon Hall was full of newly registered students of GSIS.  Professor Ji Yeoun SONG, professor of Political Economy announced the starting of the orientation,  Professor Tae Gyun PARK, associate dean of GSIS introduced the professors and staff of GSIS to the newly arrived students. Prof. Park also introduced the various kinds of scholarship GSIS is offering to the students. Following Prof. Park’s introduction,  Professor Dukgeun AHN, professor of International Trade Law and Policy introduced the FTA Commerce and Strategy Program. For students’ clear understanding,  DCPP is handled by Ms. Raemi Do, at room 202, bldg.. 140  and dual degree and Campus Asia Program is handled by Ms. Sehui Yoon at room 203, bldg. 140.      

2016-09-02

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2016 DCPP Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment Preventative Education

SNU Human Rights Center and Office of the DCPP organized the preventative education for sexual abuse and sexual harassment on August 30, 2016 at the Global Leaders’ room, GSIS bldg.  The program included an introduction of sexual abuse and human rights related issues, educated how to prevent them, and provided an opportunity for the students to get together and discuss the issue.  The program was composed of group discussion, lecture, presentation and Q&A session.  It also provided an opportunity for the trainees to discuss together in order to encourage the students’ active participation. Twenty eight (28) students participated in total, including  eighteen (18) students from KOICA program and six (6)  students from DCPP. 

2016-08-30

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Welcoming Ceremony for the 9th DCPP Participants

 The 9th batch of students participating in the Development Cooperation Policy Program (DCPP) have arrived in Seoul and participated in the welcoming ceremony that was held on the 16th of August.  The students first took part in the orientation session that started from 10:00 a.m. After listening to the overall introduction of the program as well as the academic schedules, the students moved to join the welcoming ceremony. The ceremony was jointly held with the new batch of students in the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA) at the Convention Hall of GSPA.   

2016-08-18

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The 12th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop

The 12th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop was held from June 23-25, 2016, at GSIS building, co-hosted by Socheon Center for Korean Studies and International Center for Korean Studies at Kyujanggak Institute. This year’s Consortium workshop was attended by more than 40 Directors/Chairs of Korean Studies and graduate students from esteemed universities around the world. The participating universities were Korea University, Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Kyushu University, Peking University, Fudan University, the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, UCLA, the University of British Columbia, Harvard University, the Australian National University, SOAS at University of London, Freie Universitat Berlin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Far Eastern Federal University, USC, Leiden University, University of Central Lancashire and Ateneo de Manila University.  The presentation session was divided into five sessions, which were Korean literature, Social Science, Joseon Dynasty, Modern Korean history and North Korea. Participating students gave presentations on topics of their choices in each related session, sharing their research and receiving feedback from peers and professors. And in the Director’s meeting, professors responsible for Korean Studies of each university brought up concerns or questions regarding the place of Korean Studies, shared ideas and information and discussed ways to strengthen the current network and to promote exchanges in diverse levels.      

2016-07-29

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A Critique of International Air Practices: Central Asia in Transition

On July 18th, 2016, the Yulchon-GSIS Center for Emerging Economies had held its second special lecture with Dr. Ozcan from Royal Holloway, University of London. As the reader in international business and entrepreneurship, she studies the areas of SMEs, business-politics relations and internationalization of firms. For this special event, she presented on the topic: “A critique of international aid practices: Central Asia in Transition”. In details, she explored international aid in aspect of entrepreneurship-building.

2016-07-20

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Matriculation of International Security Strategy Program (ISSP)

On 14th June 2016, the International Security Strategy Program of the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) had a matriculation for 35 executive students from the Ministry of National Defense and other related public and private organizations.  During the event, Executive Vice President & Provost Chongsuh KIM and Dean of GSIS Chong-Sup KIM gave opening remarks. The faculty of ISSP, Professor PARK Cheol-Hee, Professor PARK Tae Gyun, and Professor SHEEN Seong-Ho) also participated and encouraged the ISSP students for the active participation.  ISSP is an executive program specialized in international security studies encompassing from conventional military security to contemporary human security issues.  Inaugurated in May, ISSP is expected to meet the demand of policy cycles and the students of international security studies.

2016-06-30

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The 2nd Research Seminar held by Yulchon-GSIS Center

On May 27th of 2016, the Yulchon-GSIS Center for Emerging Economies had held its second research seminar at the Yulchon llc. Although event was held off-campus, many of the GSIS students showed up on this seminar. In number, total of 42 lawyers, students, and professors attended the seminar. Constituting of six country reports—on Indonesia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Ecuador and Kenya—each team had exposited on political, social, economic, cultural aspects of each assigned country. Following each presentation, the practicing lawyers of theYulchon llc. provided a feedback for further research on each topic. Having successfully concluded the second seminar, the Yulchon-GSIS Center for Emerging Economies is looking forward to another successful year of fruitful researches.       

2016-06-21

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Campus Asia Final Presentation Day

 On Wednesday, June15, 2016, Korean, Japanese and Chinese students of CAMPUS Asia Program had a Final Presentation Day in Socheon Hall to finish the semester.  In the event, Prof. Young Hae Han, director of CAMPUS Asia Program gave opening remarks and Prof. Chongsup Kim , Dean of GSIS, Prof. Seong-ho Sheen, Vice president of Office of International Affairs, and Prof. Cheol-hee Park, former director of CAMPUS Asia made speeches giving word of encouragement.  Students had Korean dance performance as an opening ceremony. During the presentation, students dealt with political, historical, social and cultural issues between China-Japan-Korea. After each presentation, interacting discussion was held freely.    

2016-06-20

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Professor Joseph Kaboski , “Skill Biased Structural Changes”

On May 31st, 2016: Professor Joseph Kaboski, who is the David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Nortre Dame, visited GSIS to give a special lecture on his latest research on “Skill-biased Structural Changes”. This paper has two other authors, Francisco J. Buera and Richard Rogerson, and was published in the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2015. Main findings and implications of this research are the following: Given the fact that development is associated with increase in relative demand for high-skill workers, they built a two-sector model to assess the contribution of skill-biased structural changes to the rise of the skill premium in these advanced economies including U.S. As a result, they find that technological change overall increased the skill premium by almost 100 percentage points and that between 25 and 30 percent of this change is caused by compositional changes from technological change. This finding implies that even in the absence of further skill-biased technological changes, skill premium would continue to grow under the influence of compositional changes.

2016-06-07

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[Asia and the World] Turbulent US and Japan and Asia

On May 23rd, 2016 Professor Gerald Curtis gave a special lecture on “Turbulent US and Japan and Asia’.at International Conference Hall, GSIS bldg.. 140-2.  First, he talked about Domestic politics in the US, that in Japan second and then the conversation was followed.  Professor Curtis shared some thoughts about what is going on in the U.S. HE mentioned that Trump phenomena and Sanders phenomena are important in looking at how the US people think and look their society.     

2016-06-02

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