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Tokyo U’s Kang Sang-jung Lectures at the Yongbong Forum
 
  
By Rigoberto Banta Jr., Head Student Editor
 
Professor Kang delivering the lecture in CNU.
 
  The last Yongbong Forum held at the Chonnam National University (CNU) Convention Hall on December 3, 2012 at 3PM was graced by Professor Kang Sang-jung, a political scientist and professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He presented a lecture with the title “The Strength to be Concerned—A Message to the Worried Youth” which he focused on the current situation of the youth, their lives, values and their career paths. In the said lecture, Professor Kang explained how the Korea youth are faced with extreme competition and its side effects, and the value of neoliberalism in today’s society.
  Professor Kang is a third-generation Korean resident in Japan and has written extensively about the subject of Zainichi Korean identity and the issues of nationalism. He is one of the most outspoken critics of Japanese and nationalism in the United States and has been a heavy critic to dictatorships. He is an author as well of some several books such as Beyond Orientalism (Iwanami, 1996), The Perspective of Globalization (Iwanami, 2001, co-authored with Yoshimi Shunya), and Nationalism (Iwanami, 2001).
  The Yongbong Forum lecture series was held in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of CNU spearheaded by the CNU 5.18 Institute. They have invited  renowned scholars abroad including economist Professor Chang Ha-joon from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Sergio Trindade, a co-laureate of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and Professor Kang. They have given light to the issues that the world is facing and how CNU, the youth, and the Korean society can contribute to the change that we need.
  In January 2013, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of many prestigious awards including the Nobel Peace Prize and the Gwangju Peace Prize that she received in 2004, is scheduled to lecture at CNU, her first time to visit the country after she was released in her home imprisonment in Myanmar.
  In stark comparison with the previous Yongbong Forum by Dr. Sergio Trindade, there were more participants in the last Yongbong Forum. The lecture, which was held in Japanese, had Korean translation with it which was more welcoming to the Korean audience.
 
Photo by Jo Ellim, CNU Weekly
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