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Kyung-Ae Park


 

   

Korea Foundation Chair
Director, Centre for Korean Research


Institute of Asian Research
266-1855 West Mall  
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z2 Canada 
Tel: (604) 822-2483
Fax: (604) 822-5207 
E-mail: kapark@exchange.ubc.ca

Director, Canada-DPRK Knowledge Partnership Program

     
                                                                    

  

M.A. and Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Georgia
B.A. (Political Science), Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Research interests

North and South Korean Politics 
US-Korea Relations
Gender and Development

Courses Taught 

Politics of Development, Department of Political Science 

Contemporary Politics of Korea, Department of Political Science 
Issues in Gender and Politics, Department of Political Science 
East Asian Diplomacy, MAPPS, Institute of Asian Research 
Security Module, MAPPS, Institute of Asian Research 
Gender and Development, MAPPS, Institute of Asian Research

Positions recently held in the Scholarly Community

President, the Association of Korean Political Studies in North America

Selected Publications

New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy, ed. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Korean Security Dynamics in Transition (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave-Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press, 2001), co-ed. with D. Kim.

 

China and North Korea: Politics of Integration and Modernization (Hong Kong: Asian Research Service), co-authored with H. Park.

 

“Economic Crisis, Women's Changing Economic Roles, and their Implications for Women's Status in North Korea,” Pacific Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May 2011), pp. 159-177.

 

“People’s Exit in North Korea: New Threat to Regime Stability?” Pacific Focus, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 257-275.  A different version was published as “People’s Exit, Regime Stability, and North Korean Diplomacy,” in Kyung-Ae Park, ed., New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 53-79.

 

“North Korean Strategies in the Asymmetric Nuclear Conflict with the U.S.,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 11-47.

 

"Regime Change in North Korea?: Economic Reform and Political Opportunity Structures," in U. Heo, T. Roehrig, and J. Seo eds., Korean Security in a Changing East Asia (New York, NY: Praeger, 2007).  A revised version appeared in North Korean Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 23-45.

 

“South Korean Women in Politics,” Korean Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 22 (Winter 2006), pp. 64-75.  Also appeared in Michael Kugelman, ed., Edging Toward Full Empowerment?: South Korean Women in the Workplace and the Political Arena, Asian Program Special Report, No. 132, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 2006, pp. 20-26. 

 

"Democratic Consolidation in the ROK and Political Perspectives on the 2002 Presidential Election," with H. Lee, in Alexandre Mansourov, ed., A Turning Point: Democratic Consolidation in the Republic of Korea and Strategic Readjustment in the U.S.-ROK Alliance, (Honolulu, HI: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2005), pp. 47-62.

 

"North Korea: From Brisk Diplomacy to Impass," Asian Survey, Vol. XLV, No. 1 (January/February, 2005), pp. 14-20.

 

"North Korean Nuclear Crisis and Human Security," Korean Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 10, 2004, pp. 17-35.

 

"North Korea: Pendulum Swing between Crisis and Diplomacy," Asian Survey, Vol. XLIV, No. 1 (January/February, 2004), pp. 139-146.

 

"USA Lacks Options in Crisis with Pyongyang," Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (April 2003), pp. 38-39, with H. Park.

 

"The Status of Civil Society in North Korea and Its Ramifications for Inter-Korean Integration," in James Lister, ed., The Challenges of Reconciliation and Reform in Korea (Washington, D.C.: Korea Economic Institute of America, Joint U.S.Korea Academic Studies, 2002), pp. 195-211.

 

"Sources of North Korea's Foreign Policy Leverage toward the U.S.: The Case of the Nuclear Deal," in B. C. Koh, ed., Korea: Dynamics of Diplomacy and Unification (Claremont, CA: The Keck Center, Claremont McKenna College, 2001), pp. 35-67.

 

"North Korea's Defensive Power and U.S.-North Korea Relations," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 535-553. A revised version appeared in Kyung-Ae Park and D. Kim, eds., Korean Security Dynamics in Transition (New York, N.Y.: Palgrave-Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press, 2001), pp. 83-104.

 

"Introduction: The Korean Peninsula in Flux," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 499-501.

 

"North Korea's Nongovernmental Foreign Contacts," Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Winter 2000), pp. 33-51. A full version was published as The Pattern of North Korea's Track-Two Foreign Contacts, North Pacific Policy Papers #5 (Vancouver: Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 2000).

 

"Political Representation and South Korean Women," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2 (May 1999), pp. 432-448.  Reprinted in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, eds., Women in Asia: Women and Political Power (London and NY: Routledge, 2009), pp. 271-191.

 

"Explaining North Korea's Negotiated Cooperation with the U.S.," Asian Survey, Vol. XXXVII, No. 7 (July 1997), pp. 623-636.

 

"Women Workers in South Korea: The Impact of Export-led Industrialization," Asian Survey, Vol. XXXV, No. 8 (August 1995), pp. 740-756.

 

"Women and Revolution in South and North Korea," in Mary Ann Tetreault, ed., Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 161-191. A different version was published as Women and Social Change in South and North Korea: Marxist and Liberal Perspectives, Women in International Development # 231 (East Lansing, MI: Office of Women in International Development, Michigan State University, 1992).

 

"Women and Revolution in China," in Mary Ann Tetreault, ed., Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1994), pp. 137-160.  An earlier version of the article appeared in Korea and World Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 1990), pp. 747-774.  A different version was published as Women and Revolution in China: The Sources of Constraints on Women's Emancipation, Women in International Development # 230 (East Lansing, MI: Office of Women in International Development, Michigan State University, 1992).

 

"T'ongilui Chongch'ijok Changae Yoin [Political Obstacles to Korean Unification]," in T'ongbuka Anbo Chongseiwa Nambukhan T'ongil Chonmang [Security of Northeast Asia and the Prospects for Korean Unification] (Seoul, Korea: Asiatic Research Center, Korea University, 1994), pp. 93-104.

 

"Women and Development: The Case of South Korea," Comparative Politics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (January 1993), pp. 127-145.

 

"Women and Revolution in North Korea," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Winter 1992-1993), pp. 527-545.  A different version was published as “Ideology and Women in North Korea,” in Han S. Park, ed., North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996), pp. 71- 85.

 

"Inter-Korean Relations: Changes and Prospects," Asian Survey, Vol. XXXII, No. 5 (May 1992), pp. 429-447, co-authored with S. Lee.

 

"Social Reform in North Korea: Prospects for Liberalization and Democratization," Korea Observer, Vol. XXII, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 499-517.

 

"Pukhan Sahoeui Pyonhwa Chonmang [Prospects for Changes in North Korean Society]," in '90nyondae Pukhanui Pyonhwawa Nambukhan Kwan'gye [Domestic Changes in North Korea and Inter-Korean Relations for the 1990s] (Seoul, Korea: National Unification Board of the Republic of Korea, 1991), pp. 83-106.

 

"China's Korean Policy and the Role of the Korean-Chinese in Inter-Korean Relations," Korea Observer, Vol. XXII, No. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 207-228.

 

"Political Implications of U.S.-South Korea Trade Frictions," in Tae Hwan Kwak and Seong Hyong Lee, eds., Fourty Years of Korea-U.S. Relations, 1948-1988 (Seoul, Korea: Kyung Hee University Press, 1990), pp. 17-33.

 

"Ideology and Security: Self-Reliance in China and North Korea," in Edward Azar and C. I. Moon eds.,National Security in the Third World: The Management of Internal and External Threats (England: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1988), pp. 102-135, co-authored with Han Park.

 

"Bases of Regime Legitimacy in South and North Korea," Korea Observer, Vol. XVIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), pp. 221-243, co-authored with Han Park.

 

"China and Inter-Korean Relations," The Korean Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer 1986), pp. 23-49, co-authored with Han Park.

 

"Strategies for Modernization in the People's Republic of China and North Korea," Asian Perspective, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1985), pp. 24-45. A revised Korean version appeared in "Hyondaehwa Chonryak: Chunggonggwaui Pikyo [Strategies for Modernization: Comparison with the PRC]," in Kyung-Ae Park, et al., Pukhan Sahoeui Kujowa Pyonhwa [Social Structure and Change in North Korea] (Seoul, Korea: Kyungnam University Press, 1987), pp. 161-186.

 

"Political Development in the People's Republic of China and North Korea: A Comparative Assessment," in Korean Democracy in a Time of Turbulence (Seoul, Korea: The Korean Political Science Association, 1983), pp. 131-156.

 Invited Presentations

Numerous presentations at the invitation of various universities, research institutes, academic associations, government agencies, and mass media in Canada, the U.S., China, Japan, and South Korea.

Universities, Research Institutes and Academic Associations:
Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; University of Southern California; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Los Angeles; George Washington University; University of Washington; Pennsylvania State University; Michigan State University; University of South Carolina; University of Georgia; Claremont McKenna College; Georgia State University; Western Washington University; TransPacific Hawaii College; University of Toronto; Yonsei University, Korea; Korea University; Sookmyung University, Korea; Korea National Defense University, Korea; Chongju University, Korea; Kangnam University, Korea; Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; Heritage Foundation; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; The Carter Center; Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies; The Southern Center for International Studies; Pacific Century Institute; Korea Economic Institute of America; Pacific Council on International Policy; International Council on Korean Studies; Asia Foundation; Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security; The Canada-Korea Forum; The North- South Institute; The Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development; Canada-DPRK Association; The Korean American University Professors Association; Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Korea; World Korean Forum; The Korean Political Science Association; The Korean Association of International Studies; The Korean Association for Canadian Studies; The Sejong Institute, Korea; Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Korea; Korea Institute for National Unification, Korea; The Advisory Council on Democratic and Peaceful Unification of Korea; The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.

Government Agencies and the Mass Media:
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Privy Council Office; The Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S.A; U.S. Department of State; Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea; Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC; New York Times; U.S. News and World Report; Maclean’s Magazine; Globe and Mail; Le Devoir; China Lingnian Daily; Voice of America; Radio Free Asia; Joongang Daily Newspaper; Hankook Ilbo; The Dong-A Ilbo Daily; Maeil Business Newspaper; Vancouver Choson; Corea Media; The Munwha Broadcasting Company of Korea; Radio Seoul; TV Korea; All TV.

 

  
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