Myung-lim Park

 

Myung-Lim PARK teaches at the Interdisciplinary Department of Area Studies, Graduate School, Yonsei University. He teaches there political theory, peace studies, constitutionalism, Korean Studies, and East Asian International Relations. He is there also a Director, Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library, Center for Human Peace and Healing, and Korean Presidential Archives, Institute of State Governance. He used to be a visiting professor to EHESS in Paris and to the Free University of Berlin in 2013-2014.

From 1995 to 2008, he co-organized, and participated into the inter-Korean conferences with North Korean scholars and officials over 15 times in Beijing, Pyongyang, Mt. Kumkang, Shenyang, Berlin, and Seoul.

He has written several books including: The Origins and Coming of the Korean War (1996); the Requiem for Peace: Korea, 1950 (2002); Design for the Future Republic (2011). He received some distinguished academic awards including: The Korean Political Science Association (KPSA) Academic Award (2003) and the 100 Representative Books in Modern Korea (2005 Frankfurt International Book Fair).

Professor, Yonsei University and Director, Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library
Participation in the sessions of the Forum