Events

The Rooted in Motion workshop series is a benefit experience that hosts Chicago's top choreographers for causes that make a difference in a variety of communities. Each month Rooted in Motion raises funds towards an organization to help support it financially and raise it's awareness to the general public. This month we are teaming up […]

The Korea Society will host Professor David Kang to discuss this topic. In the wake of recent security challenges on the Korean Peninsula and in advance of the US Presidential elections, USC Korean Studies Institute director and noted professor David Kang discusses the progress, pitfalls, and potential in US-ROK relations. Moderated by the Society’s Stephen Noerper […]

North Korean Human Rights Symposium By: The International Association of Youth   In 1989, the prospect of freedom propelled protests and the eventual destruction of the Berlin Wall. The watershed event freed East Berliners from the oppressive rule of the USSR’s communist regime and began their future as part of a powerful democratic nation.             […]

Event Description Defecting from North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee talks to Olivia O'Leary Festival of Writing & Ideas Organiser of Defecting from North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee talks to Olivia O'Leary   This year's Festival of Writing & Ideas will take place June 10th - 12th 2016. Now in its fifth year, the festival promises to bring […]

An exhibition on North Korean art curated by BG Muhn, artist and Professor at Georgetown University, will open at the American University Museum. The forms and structure of contemporary North Korean art, a central and highly developed dimension of the national culture, are largely unknown to the outside world. This exhibition, the first of its […]