Joonkuk Hwang

Kim, Y. (Host)

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting of external visitor (non-academic)

Description

Korean Ambassador to the UK, Joonkook Hwang, will talk about Korean history, economic and political development, North Korean issues and the Korea-UK partnership. Hwang has experience with South Korean diplomacy at the highest levels and has focused on a wide range of political and security issues, both at the bilateral and multilateral level including the North Korean Nuclear issue.

Period	28 Nov 2017
Visiting from	Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Korea, Republic of)
Visitor degree	MA
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

South Korea
North Korea
Korean peninsula
UK

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Around 200 students attended the lecture and many students showed their keen interest in a wide range of issues related to Korean such as the prospects of unification, possibility of the advent of a multilateral security mechanism in the Northeast Asian region and issues related to the Korean Peninsula. As University of Edinburgh is preparing to launch a master’s degree program for Korean studies in 2019, Ambassador Hwang met with Professor Kim Youngmi, who is at the heart of this process, and the Korean students studying in the university.