Webinar - Under a unified flag: Korean reunification twenty years after the Sydney Olympics
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 28 October 2020 - Wednesday, 28 October 2020
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Room:
- Online via Zoom
- URL:
- https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/session/6030
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Bec Molina
- Phone:
- 0413929941
- Email:
- events@languages-cultures.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- The University of Queensland's Korean Studies Centre in collaboration with The Asia-Pacific Assembly of the National Unification Advisory Council, Korea presents our webinar 'Under a unified flag: Korean reunification twenty years after the Sydney Olympics'.
The year 2000 was a time of hope for the Korean Peninsula. In South Korea, under
progressive President Kim Dae-jung, the nation was emerging from the IMF Crisis. In North Korea, the nation was starting to put the ‘Arduous March’, the famine that left millions of North Koreans dead, behind them. Green shoots began to sprout with leaders in both countries committing to solving the question of reunification. In September of the same year, North Korean and South Korean athletes marched as a unified group under a single flag in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The time looked ripe for the reunification of the Korea's. Twenty years on, the two Korea's are still estranged and still officially at war.
During this webinar, we will be joined by Professor Andrei Lankov (Korea Risk Group), and The University of Queensland's Professor Roland Bleiker and Dr Richard Murray to look at why reunification did not happen. We will also discuss the chances for future reunification.
The Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Sydney Mr. Sangwoo Hong will be joining us for the official proceedings along with the Vice Chairperson of The National Unification Advisory Council, Susan Lee. Professor Heather Zwicker, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UQ will be opening the event.
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