The U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS invites you to attend a special lecture and performance of the Samulnori. This is a form of music and dance based on the rhythms of traditional Korean folk percussion music. The performance will feature different styles of this visually dynamic artform, directed by the famed Kim Duk Soo, one […]

The US-Korea Institute at SAIS’s web-journal on North Korea, 38 North, has reported seeing steam emitting from North Korea’s 5 MWe gas-graphite reactor. This reactor, used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, was shut down in 1994 as part of the US-North Korea Agreed Framework. In 2008, the cooling tower for the reactor was destroyed […]

Utter the words “Taft-Katsura” to an average American and the response will undoubtedly be a blank stare. But I learned from my years of teaching in Korea that the words “Taft-Katsura” will almost invariably invoke a long discourse from Korean professors and students on America’s betrayal of Korea in exchange for Japanese recognition of U.S. […]