Thursday, May 24

18:00        Welcoming Dinner

Friday, May 25

09:20 – 10:00

Opening Ceremony

w Welcoming Remarks

Nae-Young LEE, Director, Asiatic Research Institute (ARI), Korea University

w Opening Remarks

Jae-jeong CHUNG, President, Northeast Asian History Foundation

w Keynote Speech

Woo-ik RYU, Minister of Unification

10: 00 – 12:00

Session I

The Twentieth Anniversary of the South Korea-China Diplomatic Normalization and Prospects for Future Developments

w Chairperson: Jung-seung SHIN, Research Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security

w Presenters:

w “The Normalization of Sino-South Korean Relations and its Impact on the Collapse of a Cold War Structure in East Asia”

Ming LIU, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

w “The Transformation of the Northeast Asian Regional Order and Search for a New Sino-Korean Relations”

Jung-nam LEE, ARI, Korea University

w “America’s Strategy towards Asia: the Case of US-China Relations and Their Impact on the Korean Peninsula”

Quanseng ZHAO, American University

12:00 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 15:15

Session II

The Fortieth Anniversary of China-Japan Diplomatic Normalization and Prospects for Future Developments

w Chairperson: Jong Won LEE, Rikkyo University

w Presenters:

w “The New Perspective and Approach for Constructing the Cooperative Framework of South Korea, China and Japan to Realize East Asian Community”

Satoshi AMAKO, Waseda University

w “The Current Situation and Challenges of the Sino-Japan Relations”

Dahui HUANG, Renmin University

w “The Ideal and Reality of China-Japan Strategic Relationship of Mutual Benefit: Their Impact on the New Order of East Asia”

Jae-bok CHA, Northeast Asian History Foundation

15:15-

15:30   

15:30 – 17:30

Coffee Break

Session III

Changing Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Regional Order

w Chairperson: Jin-young SUH, Korea University

w Presenters:

w “Dilemma of China’s Rise and China’s East Asia Policy”

Xuefeng SUN, Tsinghua University

w “The Kim Jong-un Regime and Prospects for Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation”  

Dong-ho JO, Ewha Womans University

w “The Historical and Structural Transformation of the ROK-Japan Relations and Its Implications for G2 (USA and China) Period”

Tadashi KIMIYA, University of Tokyo

18:00 – 20:00

Dinner

Saturday, May 26

10:00 – 12:00

Session IV

Regional Implications of Global Financial Crisis

w Chairperson:

w Presenters:

w “Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy”

In-kyo CHUNG, Inha University

w “Global Financial Crisis and the Role of China”

Jinping ZHAO, Development Research Center of the State Council of China

w “Global Financial Crisis and the Japanese Economy”

Motoshige ITOH, University of Tokyo

12:00 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 15:15

15:15—

15:30

 15:30—

17:30

Session V

Nuclear Security and Regional Community

w Chairperson:

w Presenters:

w “The Possibility of Emergence of a New Paradigm in the Post-3/11 Japan”

Tatsujiro SUZUKI, University of Tokyo

w “Policy Issues in China’s Nuclear Power Development”

Daojiong ZHA, Peking University

w “Nuclear Security and Regional Community”

Young-Ho KIM, Korea National Defense University

Coffee Break

Special Round Table

w Chairperson: Nae-Young LEE, Korea University

w Panelists:

w Young-Kwan YOON, Seoul National University and Former Minister of

            Foreign Affairs and Trade

w “Community-building in a Region of Power Politics: ASEAN+3 and EAS”

Akihiko TANAKA, Vice President, University of Tokyo

w Jianmin WU, President of China Foreign Affairs University (invited)

w “Chinese and Japanese Images of South Korea and Their Impact”

Gilbert ROZMAN, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

 17:30-17:45

 Closing Remarks

18:00 – 20:00

Dinner