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Celebrating Dokdo Museum Seoul's Sixth Anniversary

After opening on September 14, 2012 as the only museum about Dokdo located in a metropolitan area, Dokdo Museum Seoul celebrated its sixth anniversary by hosting the "Six Dokdo Stories" program throughout September 2018. Groups of families visiting the museum were particularly eager to participate in the program's six different events that involved posting pictures of their visit on social media, taking a quiz about Dokdo, writing postcards to officers guarding Dokdo, creating newspaper articles about Dokdo, making Dokdo-themed key chains, and watching the animation "Gangchi the Dokdo Guard." The museum also extended its visiting hours until nine o'clock on September 14 and offered a special lecture in the evening by NAHF Research fellow Hong Seong-keun on "Meeting Dokdo in Seoul." Having welcomed around 230,000 visitors over the past six years, Dokdo Museum Seoul has settled down as the place to visit in Seoul for anyone who wishes to learn about the Korean island Dokdo.

24th International Seminar on Sea Names

Between the 27th and 28th of August 2018, NAHF and the Society for East Sea jointly hosted the 24th International Seminar on Sea Names. The annually held seminar invites scholars and experts in Korea and overseas who specialize in diverse fields including geography, history, international politics, and international law to discuss issues involving sea names such as setting an international standard for naming the East Sea. Under this year's theme "Dual Naming: Possibilities and Benefits," nearly thirty experts from the United States, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea convened at the seminar to present papers and discuss the essence of and reality behind adopting dual place names.

International Seminar on the Tenth Anniversary of the Comfort Women Monument on Miyako Island

On September 8th and 9th, NAHF jointly held an international symposium with Korean and Japanese civic societies to celebrate the installation of monuments memorializing Japanese military comfort women at the islands Naha (那覇) and Miyako (宮古島) of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. Okinawa is a prefecture that had already been aware of the comfort women issue since the 1970s. Local residents who personally witnessed Korean comfort women during the war joined efforts with Korean and Japanese citizens and scholars willing to help memorialize comfort women victims by installing the monuments in 2008. At the recent symposium held under the theme "Rethinking the Japanese Military Comfort Women Issue on the Ten Anniversary of the Arirang Monument on Miyako Island“ began with NAHF President Kim Do-hyung's welcoming address and was followed by two sessions where NAHF Research fellow Park Jung-ae presented alongside other participants. Discussions for each session were each moderated by NAHF research fellows Seo Hyun-ju and Doh See-hwan.

NAHF Reorganization and Personnel Changes

The Northeast Asian History Foundation made personnel changes as below according to the latest reorganization.

Implementation Date: September 17, 2018.

•Newly Appointed Department Chiefs

Chief of the Department of Research and Policies Kim Hyun-sook

Chief of the Department of Education and Public Relations Seo Hyun-ju

Chief of the Department of Administration and Planning Chang Se-yun

•Newly Appointed Directors and Team Heads

| Department of Research and Policies |

Director of the Dokdo Research Institute Kwak Jino

Director of the Research Institute on Korea-Japan Historical Issues Nam Sang-gu

Director of the Japanese Military Comfort Women Research Center Doh See-hwan

Director of the Research Institute of Ancient-Medieval Korean History Lee Seong-je

Director of the Institute of Historical Research on the Northern Regions Park Jang-bae

Director of the Research Institute on International Relations and Historical Dialogue Lee Won-woo

Head of the Research Support Team Kang Jeong-mi

| Department of Education and Public Relations |

Head of the Education and Training Team & Director of Dokdo Museum Seoul Jeong Eun-jung

Head of the Public Relations and Exchange Team & Director of the Center of Northeast Asian Historical Resources Lee Chang-wook

| Department of Administration and Planning |

Head of the Budget Planning Team Kim Hoon

   Head of the Management and Accounting Team Park Jong-kook