Northeast Asia from Inside

Rethinking the Korea-Taiwan-Japan Relations Based on a Multi-Archival Research

Date : 21st June, 2013 (Fri.)

Venue: Grand Conference Room (3F),

Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

Organizer: Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

Sponsor: National Research Foundation of Korea

Language: Korean (Japanese and Chinese consecutive interpretation)

Program

09:00 Opening

Opening speech

Jung, Tae-Hern (Professor of Department of Korean History, Korea University)

Congratulatory speech

Lee, Nae-Young (Director of Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

09:40 Keynote Lecture

“International Relations of Northeast Asia During the Cold War”

Leng, Tse-Kang (Professor of National Chengchi University, Vice president of Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

10:10 Coffee Break

10:20 Session 1 Decolonization Problem and Korea-Taiwan-Japan Relations

Chairperson: Song, Kue-Jin (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

Presenters 

    "America's Postwar Readjustment and the Issue of Korean Independence: 'Independence

     without Legal Basis' and the Origin of Korea-Japan Relations"

Chang, Bak-Jin (Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University)

“Postwar Readjustment of Assets in Japan of Chosun Bank and Taiwan Bank: Focusing on the Development of Law Theory

Lee, Dong-Jun (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

Discussants

Ahn, So-Young (Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University)

Cho, Myung-Keun (Department of Korean History, Korea University)

12:00 Lunch time

13:20 Session2 Cold War and Korea-Taiwan-Japan Relations

Chairperson: Jung, Tae-Hern (Department of Korean History, Korea University)

Presenters

“The Formation of Special Relationship between Japan and Taiwan: Cold War and After

Tsai, Tung-Chieh (Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University)

“Conflicts and Confrontations Surrounding the Initiative of the Asian Anti-Communist League Between Korea and Taiwan, 1953~1956”

Wang, En-Mei (Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University)

“The Korean War and Taiwan’s International Position”

Park, Jung-Hyun (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

Discussants

Song, Byung-Kwon (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

Noh, Ki-Young (National Archives of Korea)

Son, Joon-Sik (Department of History, ChungAng University)

15:40 Coffee Break

16:00 Session3 Domestic politics and Korea-Taiwan-Japan Relations

Chairperson: Park, Sang-Soo (Department of Korean History, Korea University)

Presenters

“Postwar Japan-Taiwan relations and Conservative Governments: The Origin of the Pro-Taiwan Group in the 1950s”

Inoue Masaya (Faculty of Law, Kagawa University)

“The Relations of Korea and Taiwan in Northeast Asia International Order, 1945~1961”

Nam, Kwang-Kyu (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

“From Hot War to Cold War: The Rise of Modernization Project in South Korea and Taiwan”

Chung, Il-Joon (Department of Sociology, Korea University)

Discussants

Hyun, Dae-Song (Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University)

Im, Soo-Hwan (Institute for National Security Strategy)

Son, Key-young (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

18:10 Finishing Discussion

Chairperson : Jung, Tae-Hern(Professor of Department of Korean History, Korea University)

18:30 Diner