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The ANU Korea Institute is supporting a visit by Heesu Park from the Office of Climate Change, Korea International Cooperation Agency, who will represent Korea at a two-day APEC Climate Change Symposium to be held in the Mills Room, ANU Chancelry Building on the 29th and 30th of October 2009.

Green Korea 2009 Conference

Professor Will Steffen, Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, will give an important paper entitled “Green Growth and Global Change: International Institutional Challenges” at the Green Korea 2009 Conference in Seoul in early September. Nine national research institutions, including Korea Legislation Research Institute, with the support of the Prime Minister’s Office, are involved in this major conference. The Conference whose full title is “Green Korea 2009 – Green Growth and Cooperation: Policy Mix and Industry” will consider legislative and institutional issues associated with Green Growth.

The abstract of Professor Steffen’s lecture is as follows:

A broad range of global environmental changes, the most well-known of which is climate change, are driving a push towards more environmentally friendly economic growth – the emergence of “green economies”. But the global nature of the environmental threats that are driving green growth raise some significant challenges for governance and institutions. The trans-national nature of the threats requires approaches that cut across national boundaries; global targets will need to be agreed but will need to be implemented at the national level. In addition, the rates of environmental change are often larger than the rates at which the legal sector and institutions can respond. Furthermore, the knowledge base underpinning environmental management and green technology development is becoming vast and complex; assimilating this growing body of knowledge in a timely fashion is an increasingly difficult task. In summary, ensuring that green economies actually deliver on internationally agreed environmental targets and timetables will be a daunting challenge for institutions and legal systems.

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Korea Institute, through an endowment provided by POSCO, BHP and Rio Tinto, is seeking applications from suitably qualified scholars for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow for a fixed term of 2 years. As the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow appointed by the Korea Institute, you will be expected to revise your own PhD dissertation for publication; lend support to Australia-Korea Leadership Forum; and develop and teach an undergraduate course, in your second year, focused on Korea. You may also be called up to assist the Institute’s Director in liaising with other academic institutions and individuals in relation to Korean peninsula while actively pursuing your own research

Enquiries:

Professor James Fox
T: 02 6125 2166

A two-year research fellowship focusing on any one of three possible fields of investigation:

1. the politics of Korea, with a focus on contemporary developments;
2. the economics of Korea including Korea’s global involvement in multilateral issues;
3. or the security of the Korean peninsula with an East Asia context

Download the particulars as a pdf document.

International Conference on 'Park Chung Hee and His Legacy' in Seoul on 19-20 October

Associate Professor Hyung-a Kim, ANU, will lead an International Conference on the reexamination of the Legacy of former President Park Chung Hee (1961-1979) jointly with Professor Myung-Lim Park and Professor Seok-Choon Lew of Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Park's assassination. Despite the passage of time, Park’s legacy continues to exercise a powerful influence over Korean politics, economy and society, just as the debate over his legacy is an essential part of the articulation of modern Korean identity in all its various facets. This conference aims to provide a comparative assessment to add further understanding of Park Chung Hee legacy, especially its impact on not only South Korea’s development, but also the Asian-style development model which is receiving renewed scrutiny in the wake of the global financial crisis emanating from the US. The ANU Korea Institute which hosted a 2-day workshop on this topic in April is again providing financial and planning support jointly with POSCO and the Korea Foundation.

Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s Visit to North Korea

Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki has recently returned from a visit to North Korea. Her research involved tracing the journey of E. G. Kemp, a British traveler who visited Manchuria and Korea in 1910, on the eve of the annexation of Korea by Japan. In revisiting the places visited by Kemp, her aim was to see how they have changed and to reflect on the current wave of changes transforming the region.

The College of Asia and the Pacific advertises to fill a Professorial Position in Korean Studies

The ANU, with the generous support of the Korea Foundation, is seeking an outstanding scholar of Korean Studies in an area within the humanities broadly defined. Preferred fields include history, literature, linguistics or cultural studies. The successful candidate will be expected to have a distinguished publication record, extensive experience in postgraduate education, and demonstrated achievement in academic leadership. Located in the College of Asia and the Pacific, the candidate will be provided ample opportunity for research. In addition to conducting research, teaching and supervising in their own field, the successful applicant will called upon to contribute to the Korean studies program through directed training of advanced students.

The successful applicant will be expected to provide academic, scholarly and administrative leadership that has cross-disciplinary relevance, and to cooperate with Australian and international scholars to advance research and teaching in Korean studies.

For more info please see: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=677

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The ANU Korea Institute’s First International Visiting Fellow Professor Lew Seok Choon, Professor of Sociology at Yonsei University, has arrived at the ANU to take up a position as the ANU Korea Institute’s First International Visiting Fellow.  Professor Lew is a distinguished scholar who focuses his research in the field of economic and development sociology and has written extensively on the Korean economy and its development. During his visit, he will continue his on-going research on the role of Confucianism and affective networks in Korean economic development. He intends to complete an edited volume of his paper for a book titled, Confucian Capitalism and Affective Networks in Korea.