Amb. Sakutaro Tanino "Public Lecture"

On April 24th, Ambassador Sakutaro Tanino, former Ambassador of Japan to China and India, visited GSIS for the public lecture series, "Asia and the World." During two hours, he gave a lecture titled, " Recent Development in East Asia and Japan’s Foreign Policy toward the Region." In his lecture, Ambassador Tanino pointed out various aspects of East Asian region such as strong nationalism, historical issues, and territorial disputes between countries. He also emphasized that historical issues between Japan and other East Asian countries should be resolved upon Japan's active contribution to the region's economic development and security issues, while stressing the importance of Japan - Korea relation.    

2008-05-02

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Commencement - Feb. 26, 2008

On February 26th at Socheon Convention Hall, the graduation ceremony for GSIS Masters Degree candidates was held. At the Graduation ceremony, Ms. Deborah Ann Crabtree delivered a valedictory speech representing her fellow graduating classmates. Professors, distinguished guests, and family members were all in attendance for this joyous occasion to congratulate the graduates on their achievement.      

2008-02-27

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Excellence Award at the graduate student trade thesis competition

Four GSIS students won the excellence prize at the graduate student trade thesis competition held by the Korea International Trade Association and the Korea Economic Daily. Ms.Junghee Kim, Ms.Seonmin Lee, Ms.Mira Jeong, and Ms.Haihong Zheng, gathered under the team name of Yiyonghoosaeng(利用厚生), wrote a thesis titled "Promoting Export through Process Examination of Transnationalization of Corporations" under the supervision of Prof. Chong-Sup Kim.  

2007-12-10

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Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution

On December 5th, Dr. Richard Bush, Director of Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution, visited GSIS and gave a lecture titled "China's Rise and America's Response". In his lecture, Dr. Bush concluded that China's rise has not upset the status quo of the current international system and that conflict between US and China is not inevitable. He stressed the point that US holds the future in its hands and working with other main actors, China and the US can preserve world peace.  

2007-12-06

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Amb. Choi Young-Jin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN to Cote-d‘Ivoire

On November 15th, Amb. Choi Young-Jin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN to Cote-d'Ivoire, visited GSIS and gave a lecture titled "UN Peace Operation in the 21st Century". Amb. Choi talked about how paradigm shifts have been changing the way we live. He pointed out that the increase in size and number of UN Peacekeeping Operations is a natural result of such fundamental paradigm shift on the internatinal level. Amb. Choi also talked about his future mission in Cote-D'Ivoire and shared his personal views on UN Peace Operations with many students.      

2007-11-28

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Homecoming party

Homecoming party was held at Hoam Convention Center on October 23. Over 300 people participated in this event, including 150 alumni, 130 students and 30 faculty and staff members. Dean Taeho Bark, student council president Youngjin Chun and Ms. Seung-Hyun Kim (Int'l Commerce, entering class of 1997) each delievered congratulatory speech. Alumni Association was formed where Sae-Ryun Yang (Int'l Commerce, entering class of 1997) and Hyung-Kyu Lim(Int'l Commerce, entering class of 2002) was selected as president and manager, respectively. We expect an active alumni association. Professors contributed to this event by donating various gifts. From cell phones to wine, flower vase, cosmetics sets, USB and gift certificates, various gifts were given out. Student Council prepared OX and bingo games to hand out these gifts. The event began at 6 p.m. and ended a little over 10.p.m. After the official ceremony, people gathered to continue the celebration and had a wonderful time. We hope that people can reunite again next year.    

2007-11-26

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10 years of GSIS

Commemoration celebrating the 10 years of GSIS was held on 23 October in Sochon Convention Hall. President Lee of SNU, First Dean Hong of GSIS and Ambassor Chua Thai Keong of Singapore delivered meaningful addresses to the room full of students, professors and other faculty members. During the event, former GSIS deans were recognized and awarded with plaques of appreciation for their efforts in improving GSIS during their tenure.    

2007-11-21

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POSCO Asia Fellowship Awarding Ceremony

POSCO TJ PARK Foundation (Lee Ku Taeh, Chief of Board of Directors) held POSCO Asia Fellowship Awarding Ceremony last Friday (26 October) at the POSCO Center. Over 100 people from diplomatic and academic circle participated in the ceremony including Mr. Lee Ku Taeh, H.E. N.Parthasarathi, Ambassador of India to Korea, Park Chul, President of Hankook University of Foreign Studies, Chung Un-Chan, Former President of SNU, Kim Shin-Bok, Vice President of SNU, and Bark Taeho, Dean of GSIS, SNU. With Mr. Podal from India (currently studying at GSIS, Korea University) and Ms. Zhang Ranning from China (currently studying at GSIS, SNU) serving as MCs, talent shows by Chinese and Indian students were performed, adding excitment to the event. Four Chinese students from GSIS, SNU (Zhang Ranning, Dong Lei, Yin Ying, Wu Jia) sang a Chinese song titled 'Tian Mi Mi' and was greeted with a big applause.          

2007-11-01

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Mr.Nayan Chanda, the director of publications

There was a distinguished lecture by Mr.Nayan Chanda, the director of publications at the Yale center and the former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review at Sochon Converntion Hall, GSIS on 29th of October with the title "Bound together - a history of globalization". He conveyed a very impressive lecture and participants asked many questions with regard to the globalization.  

2007-11-01

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Mr. Kato Koichi, former secretary general of the Japan's prominent Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Mr. Kato Koichi, former secretary general of the Japan's prominent Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and member of Japan's House of Representatives, visited GSIS to deliver a lecture entitled "Political Changes in Japan and Asian Diplomacy" on October 8th. In his lecture, Kato stressed that Japanese nationalism has been changing in constructive ways. He also stressed that Yasuo Fukuda, newly elected prime minister of Japan, who was appointed to his position under the changed faction structure of the LDP, will try to improve Japan's diplomatic relations with its neighboring countries.  

2007-10-31

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