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Award Ceremony for the winners of the 13th Dokdo Essay Contest and The 4th Liberal Arts Book Essay Contest Held

The foundation held an award ceremony to honor the winners of the 13th Dokdo Essay Contest and the 4th Liberal Arts Book Essay Contest on Wednesday, October 26 in its newly relocated Dokdo Museum (located on the 2nd basement of Yeongdeongpo Times Square).

Professor Shim Jung-bo of Seowon University, and Ko dong-sik, Chairman Korean Dokdo Association in Australia and Center for Multi-culturalism and Social Policy of Daegu University were selected as the winners of the ‘Dokdo Academic Award’ and ‘Dokdo Sarang Award’ of the 13th Dokdo Essay contest, respectively.

As for the adult category of the 4th Liberal Arts Book Essay Contest, the winner of grand prize (Kwon Hyuk-joo), 2 winners of excellence prize (Kwon Min-sung, Park Sang-woo), and 5 winners of achievement prize (Shin Kyung, Jeon Min-chang, Yoo Chan-ho, Son Jang-hoon, Park Hyun-hui) were selected. For the student category, two excellence prize (Ban Ho-won, Hwang Bo-hoon) and one achievement prize (Kong Ye-jin) received the NAHF President’s Award with prize. The essays of winners will be posted on the blog and social media of the foundation.

NAHF Released its Liberal Arts Book Series The Ganghwa Island incident

The foundation released its liberal arts book series titled, The Ganghwa Island incident in order to help ordinary readers better understand the Korean history and pending issues of international relations of the Northeast Asia.

The Japan-Joseon relations were modernized with the conclusion of the Japan-Korea Treaty on February 27, 1876. The Ganghwa Island incident staged by Japan by mimicking the ‘gunboat diplomacy’ of the Western Power was designed to open Joseon and the country was considered as a passive entity. However, the new government of Japan that led the ‘Meiji Restoration’ did not have any capabilities to engage the ‘gunboat diplomacy’ and struggled to go through the tumultuous period. During the process of entering into the treaty, Japan forced to take its demand unilaterally and ignored rational proposals of Joseon. Thus, the two sides had to have uncomfortable relations from the beginning as they entered the modern era.

The book vividly showed that Joseon responded actively when conflicts arose during the conclusion of the treaty and presented rationale options. The foundation hopes that this book will help readers better understand the bilateral relations of the past and explore ways for the two sides to build sound relations in the future.

NAHF Held an Academic Conference on the Project to Compile the History of Japanese Invasion 

- Status and challenge in the study of Japan's colonial policies -

The foundation held an academic conference under the topic of the ‘status and challenge in the study of Japan’s colonial policies’ on Friday, November 18 as part of the project to compile the history of Japanese invasion (Commissioner Park Chan-seung). This conference was attended by the authors of research series of the foundation in three categories of politics, economy, and wartime mobilization with regard to the invasion of Japanese imperialism on the Korean Peninsula as well as researchers and scholars in the field. The participants discussed the objectives and contents of the series and future challenges extensively to explore the future directions for the compilation project. The project to compile the history of Japanese invasion was designed to study and public the research outcome by topic and area to examine the reality of its colonial rule and summarize the era form the historical perspectives.

Northeast Asian History Focus No. 3 Release

The Northeast Asian History Foundation (NAHF) to release the third issue of Northeast Asian History Focus on coming December 1. After the first issue of the magazine in June, 2022, Northeast Asian History Focus has selected main topics among items related to the history and pending issues of the Northeast Asia that may appeal to the readers in Korea and overseas and compile articles for publication.

The main topic of the Issue no. 3 released this time is the ‘history of Goguryeo meeting with epitaphs.’ Starting from a special contribution titled ‘A study of Monument of King Gwanggaeto the Great and history of Goguryeo’, by Noh Tae-done, honorary professor at Seoul National University, to the discovery and arguments related to Chungju Goguryeo Monument, King Gwanggaeto Stele, and Jian Goguryeo Stele are discussed in Focus. Visit to a historical scene introduces the exhibition hall of Bongpyeong Silla Stele in Uljin. In the News from the local correspondence sections, Park Jang-bae, research fellow of the foundation deployed to Mongolia, delivers the stories and reports of Mongolia.

Visit the homepage of the Northeast Asian History Foundation (www.nahf.or.kr) to find the full articles of Northeast Asian History Focus.