SNUAC Asia-Africa Center Launch Seminar


  • Date: April 1st, Friday, 2022 14:00 – 17:00
  • Location: Samick Hall (Room 220), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Session 1 Launching Ceremony

13:30-14:00 Registration

14:00-14:05 Opening Speech
Emcee: Joonhwa Cho (Research Fellow, Asia-Africa Center)
SooJin Park (Director, SNUAC)

14:05-14:25 Congratulatory Remarks
Haecheon Choi (Vice President, SNU)
Woonki Yeo (Chairperson, The Korea-Africa Foundation)
Jongseob Kim (President, SNU Alumni Association)
Sook In Kwon (Dean, College of Social Sciences, SNU)

14:25-14:35 Photo Shoot

14:35-14:50 Break (Coffee and Refreshments)

14:50 -16:50 Moderator: Taekyoon Kim (Director, Asia-Africa Center, SNUAC)

Presentations: Jinsang Lee (Prof., Dept. of Technology and Society, State University of New York, Korea)
Taekyoon Kim (Director, Asia-Africa Center, SNUAC)

Discussion: Kyungha Kim (Senior Researcher, Overseas Economic Research Institute, The Export-Import Bank of Korea)
Dongseok Kim (Prof., The Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Sungsoo Kim (Director, Institute for Euro-African Studies, Hanyang University)
Soowon Kim (Prof., Graduate School of International Studies, HUFS)
Ilsoo Kim (Former Director, Korea-Africa Future Strategy Center, Former Ambassador to Kazakhstan)
Joon Kim (Prof., Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, SNU)
Jungkyung Park (Director, Institute of African Studies, HUFS)
Ayoung Cho (Deputy Chief, Department of East Africa, KOICA)
Wonbin Cho (Vice President, Korean Association of African Studies / Prof., Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, Sungkyunkwan University)
Seoni Han (Associate Researcher, Africa and Middle East Team, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)