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SUMMARY:How Women’s Political Visibility in South Korea Shapes Legislators’ Behavior and Public Attitudes -- Soosun You
DESCRIPTION:Korea Institute SBS Seminar \n \nSoosun You\nAssistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania \nSoosun You is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in comparative politics\, gender and politics\, and political behavior\, with a regional focus on South Korea. Her research appears or is forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science and Journal of Law and Economics. She is also the founder of the Gender in Korea Reading Group\, which brings together scholars from diverse disciplines working on gender issues related to Korea. \nSoosun’s current book project explores how demographic shifts and changes in the marriage market have shaped the trajectory of women’s rights in South Korea. Drawing on a wide range of methods including archival work\, survey experiments\, and in-depth interviews\, the book examines the rise of anti-natalist and pro-natalist government policies and their consequences for women’s economic and political rights.  \nShe earned her PhD and MA in political science from UC Berkeley. She also has a master’s in public policy from Seoul National University. \nChaired by Hojung Joo\, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government\, Harvard University \nAbstract:\nIn this talk\, I explore how women’s presence in South Korean politics—both within legislatures and protest movements—shapes elite behavior and public attitudes. I argue that descriptive representation can foster substantive representation when everyday peer environments expose legislators and the public to women in politics. First\, I show that working alongside more women colleagues affects the policy-making process by increasing legislators’ engagement with gender equality issues\, drawing on data from legislative speeches\, plenary sessions\, and campaign manifestos. Second\, using a novel survey experiment conducted in South Korea\, I demonstrate that the salience of women’s participation in protest movements strengthens women’s political agency and shapes public perceptions of government legitimacy and democratic values. \nEvent details can be found on the Korea Institute website.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/soosun-you-2025/
LOCATION:Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050)\, CGIS
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SUMMARY:Encountering Law: Legal Knowledge and Practice in Chosŏn Korea -- Jungwon Kim
DESCRIPTION:Korea Institute Korea Colloquium \nJungwon Kim\nKing Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nChaired by Sun Joo Kim\, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University \nScholars have long assumed that Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) lacked a distinctive system for cultivating legal professionals. Local magistrates and provincial governors\, serving as chief judicial officers in their jurisdictions\, were scholar-officials appointed through the civil service examination and often perceived as lacking formal legal training. Yet\, despite their abscence of structured legal education\, these officials demonstrated substantial knowledge of the law and significant practical administrative skills in legal matters. There were also legal specialists who underwent rigorous training\, passed examinations in law\, and were appointed to assist local governors with judicial tasks. Moreover\, numerous legal cases reveal that ordinary people\, much like the officials judging them\, displayed a surprising familiarity with the law. This talk explores how legal knowledge was generated\, disseminated\, interpreted\, and applied by various groups in Chosŏn society. Drawing on rich archival materials—including law books\, legal handbooks\, trial reports\, and other local-level governmental publications—it uncovers the multifaceted modes of producing and sharing legal information\, highlighting how legal literacy and knowledge facilitated access to justice and shaped the judicial process in Chosŏn Korea. \nJungwon Kim is King Sejong Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She specializes in the gender and legal history of premodern Korea\, with a focus on the Chosŏn Dynasty. She is the author of Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea\, 1392–1910 (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2025). Her other works include co-authoring Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2014) and co-editing Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2019). She also edited the special issue Archives\, Archival Practices\, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea (Journal of Korean Studies\, 2019). Currently\, she is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Families in Trials: Local Courts and Legal Culture in Chosŏn Korea. She earned her PhD from Harvard University\, taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton. \nEvent details and Zoom registration link on the Korea Institute website (opens in a new tab).
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/jungwon-kim-2025/
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SUMMARY:Making “We the People” in Korea: Foreigners\, Histories\, Identities
DESCRIPTION:Korea Institute Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs \nSung Ho Kim\nKim Koo Visiting Professor\, Department of Government\, Harvard University\nProfessor of Political Science\, Yonsei University \nChair: Carter Eckert\nYoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University \nSung Ho Kim is Kim Koo Visiting Professor at the Department of Government at Harvard University and Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University. Previously\, he taught at Williams College and University of California. His primary field of research/teaching is political and constitutional theories; he is also interested in Korea\, Japan\, and East Asian politics\, law\, and history in general. He is the author of Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society (2004/2007) and Making We the People (2015)\, both published by Cambridge University Press. He is a recipient of the Leo Strauss Award of the American Political Science Association. He holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Chicago. \nSponsored by the Korea Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of Government\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/making-we-the-people-in-korea-foreigners-histories-identities/
LOCATION:Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050)\, CGIS
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SUMMARY:The Economic Reintegration of the Koreas: Time to Get On With It
DESCRIPTION:Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs \nThomas Pinansky\nSenior Foreign Attorney and Partner\, Barun Law LLC (Korea) \nChair: Paul Chang\nAssociate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nA public reception will follow the talk. \nSponsored by the the Korea Institute\, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by EALS.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-economic-reintegration-of-the-koreas-time-to-get-on-with-it/
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