Beth Do, a student in the Master’s in Applied International Studies program at the Jackson School, writes about a recent public event on North Korea featuring The RAND Corporation. The event was sponsored by the Center for Korea Studies at the Jackson School.   Over 100 students, faculty, and interested community members gathered on Thursday, November

Until the Mumun Pottery Period (ca. 1500-100 B.C.), Korean society was primarily organized as small egalitarian groups with no centralized political system. This was the pattern for millennia, persisting until a suite of important changes occurred in several regions of the peninsula. This presentation examines the archaeological evidence from one such region—the Jinju area in

Two East Asia faculty members are releasing a new book titled Spaces of Possibility; In, Between, and beyond Korea and Japan. Clark Sorensen, who is a Professor and Director of the Center for Korean Studies, and Andrea Gervurtz Arai who is a Lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies, worked together to create Spaces of Possibility, which is