The ICAS Bulletin
Institute for Corean-American Studies, Inc.
Gari Ledyard to Keynote
ICAS Summer Symposium
Korean Diaspora
Challenges facing The Korean-American Community (KAC)
in the New Century
August 17-18, 2000
Yuong Sang Presbyterian Church
706 Witmer Road, Horsham, PA
Dear Friend:
We are pleased to share with you that Gari Ledyard will deliver keynote
address for the subject program.
Gari Ledyard is King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia
University in the City of New York, where he has served as the
director of the Korean Studies program in the Department of East
Asian Languages and Cultures since 1964. He has taught and written
on many aspects of Korean Studies, but is primarily a historian
specializing in Korea's pre-modern periods. He has also taught and
written on Korea's modern history, culture, and current affairs.
He is the author of The Korean Language Reform of 1446, The Dutch
Come to Korea, the book-length monograph "Cartography in Korea",
published in the multi-volume work History of Cartography, edited
by David Woodward, and many articles in journals and conference
volumes.
Thank you.
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Regards,
Sang Joo Kim / signed
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President
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