▣ Title : Understanding of Southeast Asia: How to behave in Southeast Asia?

▣ Speaker

: HWANGIn-Won(Gyeongsang National University)

▣ Date

& Time : Friday, October 24 (2:00

~ 3:30pm)

▣ Place

: LG Research Building, Room #101

▣ Host

: Prof. KIM Sang-Woo (T.2237)

▣ Abstract

It

is only after the Second World War the concept of a Southeast Asian region has

been used in a general term. From a strategic military point of view it was

apparent that the term ‘Southeast Asia’ used that was not a scholars’ concern

nor a general interest. The Southeast Asian studies, furthermore, had been

initiated by scholars of Western countries since World War II, but afterwards

became more in depth due to participations of Asian Pacific countries such as

Australia and Japan. The Southeast Asian studies in Korea, however, have a

short history of merely four decades. It took more than twenty years to open

graduate programs for Southeast Asian studies after an undergraduate program of

the Malay and Indonesian studies started to be seriously dealt as an

inter-disciplinary area study. In this manner, Korea started showing interest

in Southeast Asian studies later than an other Asian countries, and it is still

in the process of struggling to set grounds for its survival.

This

lecture, through analyzing conditions of Southeast Asian studies in Korea, will

scrutinize the process of development, limits, current trends, and perspectives

of the Korean Southeast Asian studies. Along with the critical evaluation of

the progress of Korean Southeast Asian studies, this lecture will focus on the

increasing importance of Southeast Asian region in relation with Korea. This

lecture will also dealt with the impending problem of how to create an

increased demand in Southeast Asian countries in general, especially among the

young generation.