IACKS News Letter (April 2008)

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:55:56 GMT

Dear friends and colleagues,

The International Association for Contemporary Korea Studies' Rules have been drafted and uploaded to this website (see Public Documents). You will see that the IACKS is conceived as a virtual group. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

At the moment I am taking the initiative to fulfill the duty of Executive Director until the next (on-line) general meeting takes place. If you want to be a Regional Director in your country or region, please volunteer. At the moment IACKS has been joined by 15 people from 7 countries. That means we can already have 7 Regional Directors.

If you have not done so, you are most welcome to join us formally through this website (www.iacks.spaces.live.com) and you will automatically receive all updates and complimentary Contemporary Korea News. If you have technical problems please let me know. If you lose your interest in IACKS and its publications you can always unsubscribe from this website.

For those who applied for 2008 NK Study Tour, I would like to inform you that I have proposed to KASS to conduct this three-week tour sometime between late September and early November. At the moment 4 people have applied (3 Australians and 1 US passport holder). It is still have to be established whether US citizens and ethnic Koreans can be accepted by the KASS. I am bidding for equal opportunities for all IACKS members.

One more news. The IIJI Secreatary General Dr.OGAMI Kenichi, plans to visit Australia in late July 2008. He might give a seminar at the ANU on the philosophical, political and historical aspects of Juche. If anyone wants to communicate with him directly, please let me know and I'll send you his e-mail address.

And finally, for those who are in Canberra and its vicinity, please do not forget that on 6th, 7th,and 8th May 2008 we are showing three North Korean films (18:00-20:00). All details are here: http://koreanstudies.anu.edu.au/filmnight.htm

With very best regards,

Leonid Petrov PhD
Executive Director, Australia
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International Association for Contemporary Korea Studies
www.iacks.spaces.live.com

IACKS Newsletter

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:58:52 GMT

How to join the IACKS

If you wish to join IACKS, please open your own MSN Windows Live Space account and join. If you want to participate in the creation of IACKS set of rules, aims and principles, please write to me. I really need your help to formulate something meaningful.

IACKS's latest news:

- A Russian scholar of Korean Studies, Inna Pankina, has recently visited Pyongyang and met with scholars affiliated with Korean Association of Social Sciences (KASS) to discuss Songun politics. She says it was not very informative but still helpful in understanding North Korea.

- EHESS in Paris is inviting a couple of KASS scholars to France to participate in a seminar "The North Korean Views on Juche, and North-South Korean Interfaces" to be held in May 2008.

- After visiting North Korea in October-November 2007, Konrad Math, an ANU graduate student is preparing to start writing a thesis on Juche. He wants to contest T.Belke's opinion that Juche is as a political religion: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/4594/2.

- Negotiations with KASS about the dates for 2008 NK Study Tour will be commenced soon. The tentative time for travel is October 2008.

IACKS Coordinator for Australia
australia.korea@gmail.com

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