International Conference

The Comparative Analysis of Democratic Consolidation between Taiwan and South Korea & Cross-Straits Relations and Inter-Korean Relations

Date: October 23 (Friday), 2015, 13:30~17:40

Venue: Grand Conference Room, Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

Host: Center for Taiwan Studies, Asiatic Research Institute (ARI)

Sponsors: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), National Research Foundation of Korea

Language: English

13:30-13:40 Registration

13:40-14:00 Opening Ceremony

Opening Remarks: Key-young Son (Chair, Center for Taiwan Studies, ARI)

Welcoming Remarks: Jong-Wha Lee (Director, Asiatic Research Institute)

Congratulatory Remarks: Ting Joseph Shih (Ambassador, Taipei Mission in Korea)

14:00~15:40 (Session 1): Democratic Consolidation & Cross-Straits and Inter-Korean Relations

Moderator: Nae Young Lee (Korea University)

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

“Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations: Critics of Democratic Peace”

     Discussant: Hun Kyung Lee (Dong-A University)

1. Key-young Son (ARI, Korea University)

“Why Democracies Take Divergent Paths vis-à-vis Autocracies: Democratic Consolidation, Relationality, and Inter-Korean and Cross-Strait Relations”

     Discussant: Soo Hwan Im (INSS, Institute for National Security Strategy)

1. Kwang Kyu Nam (ARI, Korea University)

“A Comparative Study on Inter-Korean Relations & Cross-Strait Exchanges”

     Discussant: Chul Ho Cho (KPRC, Korea Policy Research Center)

15:40~16:00 Coffee Break

16:00~17:40 (Session 2): Democratic Consolidation, Nationalism & Transnational Space

Moderator: Jongtae Kim (ARI, Korea University)

1. Yu-tzung Chang (National Taiwan University) & Yi-ting Wang (National Cheng-Kung University)

“Deepening Democracy? Support for Polyarchy in Taiwan”

     Discussant: Key-young Son (ARI, Korea University)

2. Ming Lee (National Chengchi University)

“Comparative Political Democratization of Taiwan and Korea as Cousins”

Discussant: Dong Sun Lee (Korea University)

3. Taek Sun Lee (Sungkyunkwan University)

“Nationalism of Korea and Taiwan: Focused on the Formations of ‘Nation’ and Ethnic Group ‘Discourses’”

     Discussant: Yi-ting Wang (National Cheng-Kung University)

4. Yoon Kyong Lee (Seoul National University)

“Transnational Ethnic Social Space: Between Semi-peripheries Taiwan and  South Korea”

     Discussant: Jung-Mee Hwang (ARI, Korea University)

18:00 Dinner