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

Thursday, November 10th, 5:30 – 8:30 PM LECTURE IN LAW 133 — RECEPTION IN LAW 115, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON In many ways, the North Korean regime is unstable. Its people suffer from poverty and starvation, while the regime is embarrassed by its inferiority to its South Korean neighbor in terms of economics, international relations, and

3:30-5:00 PM, Communications #202 Friday October 14, 2016 Youngmi Kim is Associate Professor of Korean history at Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea. She earned her Ph.D. from the Korean History Department at Seoul National University in 2005 with a study of the politics of government mobilization schemes targeting neighborhoods. That study developed into her 2009