• Date: June 11th, Saturday, 2022, 13:00 – 17:30
• Location: Youngone Hall (Room 210), SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Environmental problems are the issues that should be examined from both the long-term and comparative perspectives. However, environmental studies in Korea tend either to remain at an abstract level or to be confined to the national border. It is necessary for us to make environmental issues truly universal. This conference might be a meaningful start for that goal. At this conference, the presenters will make presentations about various environmental problems and the approaches to solving these problems spatially from China, Japan and Germany, temporally from the 17th Century and 21st century.

Opening ceremony 13:00~13:10

Opening speech: Baek Yung Kim (Director, NEAC, SNUAC)
Welcome remarks: Jinil Lee (President, Korean Society for German History)

Moderator: Haenam Park (SNU)

Jungwon Cho (Wonkwang Univ.): A Historical Consideration of China’s Environmental Issues – From the 1950s to the present
Juhee Seok (Hallym Univ.): Japan’s Environmental Movement in the 1950s-1960s and Pollution-Related Diseases
Yunjeong Joo (Pusan Nat’l Univ.): Climate and Ecological History Seen from Post-Colonialist Perspective

Discussion: Taewoo Ko (SNU)

Moderator: Soohyun Moon (Hanyang Univ.)

Hyejung Park (Yonsei Univ.): Crisis of the 17th Century Seen in Climate History
Chungki Song (Kongju Nat’l Univ.): The History of 19th Century Animal Protection Movement: Trends and Prospects
Youkyung Ko (Wonkwang Univ.): Cases of German Forest Protection around the Turn of the 20th Century

Discussant: Kibong Kim (Kyonggi Univ.)