Event

Avoiding Meltdowns & Blackouts

Confidence-building in Inter-Korean Engagement on Nuclear Safety and Energy Development

Date & Time

Tuesday

Nov. 8, 2022

8:00am – 10:30am ET

Location

Online Only

Event Sponsors

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Asia Program

Please join the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Korea Center, in cooperation with Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES), Kyungnam University, for a featured discussion with authors of Avoiding Meltdowns & Blackouts: Confidence-building in Inter-Korean Engagement on Nuclear Safety and Energy Development. This forthcoming publication explores key opportunities and challenges in inter-Korean energy engagement on the Korean Peninsula.

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This event is made possible by the generous support of the ROK Ministry of Unification.

Tuesday, November 8

08:00am – 08:10am ET

Welcome Remarks

Dr. Sue Mi Terry
Director, Asia Program and Korea Center, Wilson Center

Dr. Kwan-Sei Lee
Director, IFES, Kyungnam University

08:10am – 09:10am ET

PANEL I: Nuclear Energy & Safety on the Korean Peninsula

Moderator
Kayla Orta
Program Associate, Korea Center, Wilson Center

Panelists
Dr. Man-Sung Yim
Professor, Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, and Director, NEREC, KAIST

Dr. HoKee Kim
International Nuclear Safety School, Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety

Dr. Francesca Giovannini
Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Key Discussants
Byong-Chul Lee
Professor, Kyungnam University

Dong-Yub Kim
Professor, University of North Korean Studies

09:10am – 10:00am ET

PANEL II: Nonproliferation & Future Implications

Moderator
Dr. Sue Mi Terry
Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center

Panelists
Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker
Professor, Texas A&M University; Professor, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Project, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Key Discussants
Jina Kim
Professor, Division of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Jihwan Hwang
Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Seoul

10:00am – 10:10am ET

Adjournment

Thank you for coming

Introductions

Sue Mi Terry

Former Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Dr. Kwan-Sei Lee

Director, IFES, Kyungnam University

Moderators

Sue Mi Terry

Former Director of the Asia Program and the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Kayla Orta

Senior Associate, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

Panelists

Dr. Man-Sung Yim

Professor, Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, and Director, NEREC, KAIST

Dr. HoKee Kim

International Nuclear Safety School, Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety

Dr. Francesca Giovannini

Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Byong-Chul Lee

Professor, Kyungnam University

Dong-Yub Kim

Professor, University of North Korean Studies

Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker

Professor or Practice, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University; Professor, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation studies of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis

Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Project, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Jina Kim

Professor, Division of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Jihwan Hwang

Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Seoul

Hosted By

Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy

The Center for Korean History and Public Policy was established in 2015 with the generous support of the Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Foundation to provide a coherent, long-term platform for improving historical understanding of Korea and informing the public policy debate on the Korean peninsula in the United States and beyond. Read more

Asia Program

The Asia Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more

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