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독도연구소 10년의 발자취
The Past Decade for the Dokdo Research Institute Since its launching in 2008, the Dokdo Research Institute has been at the forefront of various activities related to researching and promoting issues involving the Korean island Dokdo. This month's issue presents coverage about the institute's major activities and episodes in the NAHF newsletter, press releases, and news reports.
Evelyn Go (NAHF Department of Exchange and Public Relations)
독도연구소 성과와 과제
Dokdo Research Institute's Achievements and Challenges Empirical as well as international legal evidence has made it an undeniable fact that the island Dokdo has historically, geographically, and legally been an inherent part of Korean territory. Nevertheless, the Japanese government has repeatedly been making farfetched claims over the island ever since Korea's liberation. Making such claims on Japan's sovereignty over Dokdo is tantamount to invading the island as well as the Korean peninsula all over again as Japan once did through imperialist wars of aggression. The task at hand for Northeast Asia in the twenty-first century is to achieve peace and prosperity based an accurate understanding of history. This month's interview hence turns to Professor Emeritus Rim Young-jung of Dongguk University to explore the historicity and legitimacy of Korea's sovereignty over Dokdo and seek his advice on how to put an end to the dispute over Dokdo between Korea and Japan that has been going on for decades.
Yu Ha-young(NAHF Research fellow)
Tenth Anniversary of a Platform for Studying Dokdo The Northeast Asian History Foundation's Dokdo Research Institute has reached its tenth anniversary. The Institute was formed to systematically, objectively deal with Japanese provocations regarding the sovereignty of Dokdo. Yet, the Institute's mission is not limited to examining the past. The Institute has also been charged with systematizing investigations and studies on Dokdo and assembling discussions about the island each generation had from past to present. The list of the Institute's tasks involve actively communicating with civic organizations, correcting misunderstandings about Dokdo, and engaging in cooperation to teach and publicize Dokdo related issues in Korea and abroad. These indicate that the Korean people and Dokdo are at the core of an institute that serves as platform for research efforts ranging from history to international law, all aimed at instilling accurate perceptions about the dominium of Dokdo.
Yang Hee-cheol (Director, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology's Ocean Policy Institute)
제13회 제주포럼 둥북아역사재단 세션 미래지향적 한일관계를 위한 제언
NAHF Session at the 13th Jeju Forum: Proposals for a Future-Oriented Korea-Japan Relations The Jeju Forum is an occasion to search for ways to steadily realize peace and prosperity in a region as dynamic as East Asia. For the 13th forum held in 2018, the theme was "Reengineering Peace for Asia" and the session hosted by the Northeast Asian History Foundation was titled "Historical Reconciliation and the Future-oriented Korea-Japan Relationship." An air of reconciliation has lately been brought to Northeast Asia in 2018 with the Inter-Korean summit in April and the North Korea-United States summit in June. These changing circumstances require mutual understanding and cooperation between South Korea and Japan, but issues involving disparate historical perceptions remain as an obstacle keeping the two countries from improving their bilateral relations. Hoping to help the two countries resolve conflicts over history through a future-oriented approach, the Northeast Asian History Foundation organized a session at the Jeju Forum where NAHF President Kim Do-hyung served as chair to presentations by Professor Emeritus Chung Jae-jeong of the University of Seoul and Professor Umeno Masanobu of Joetsu University and the subsequent discussion in which Professor Ha Jong-moon of Hanshin University and NAHF Research fellow Nam Sang-gu participated.
Seo Chong-chin (Research fellow, NAHF Institute of Japanese Studies)
독도 명칭을 지도에 표기한 독일인 의사 시볼트
Dokdo in the German Surgeon Siebold's Map Born in Würzburg, Germany, Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796-1866) followed his grandfather and father’s steps by becoming a surgeon. Outside his profession, Siebold was enthusiastic about geography and the world abroad, and dreamed of traveling to distant lands from reading books by the geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1767-1835) who once traveled to South America. He was particularly interested in the Orient, which is what motivated him to go to The Hague in 1822 and seek employment with the Dutch East India Company. He was thereafter posted as an army medical officer to an artillery unit in Batavia (present day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia). As the Dutch government took over the operation of the Dutch East India Company’s Asian trade division when it went bankrupt, it became necessary for the Dutch government-general to gather information on Japan in order to establish a bridgehead for trade with the country. Japan at the time was practicing a closed-door policy, but allowed foreign merchants to set up trading posts on an artificial island called Dejima in the bay of Nagasaki. On August 12, 1823, Siebold arrived in Nagasaki to work as the resident physician for the Dutch trading post there.
Yi Saang-kyun (Research Fellow, NAHF Dokdo Research Institute)
임진왜란 직전의 통신사 외교 신경전의 살벌한 풍경
Ruthless Diplomatic War of Nerves Ahead of the Imjin War Joseon Tongsinsa refers to diplomatic missions the king of the Korean kingdom Joseon officially sent to the chief ruler of Japan. How did Tongsinsa begin and what role did it perform as relations between the two countries went through change? The year of 2019 will mark the 590th year since the first Tongsinsa mission was sent in 1429, so this series called Tongsinsa Stories will review Joseon Tongsinsa as a cultural delegation representative of the Korean dynasty's diplomatic history with Japan.
Kim Kyong-tae (Research professor, Korea University CORE Program)
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