{"id":224,"date":"2017-09-01T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/center\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2024-09-27T03:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T03:36:44","slug":"message-from-the-director-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/introduction\/message-from-the-director-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cTo strengthen and renew SNUAC’s research\u00a0in identity and regional studies.<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regional Studies, as an academic discipline, was born as\u00a0a product of Imperialism and the Cold War world order.\u00a0It was during this period in world history that modern\u00a0states saw the crucial need to study other societies\u00a0and cultures to realize their own political and economic\u00a0interests. However, even long before modern political\u00a0systems and academia were estabilished, people could\u00a0not survive without incessant material and cultural\u00a0exchanges with other people in and outside their own\u00a0region. The reason that our world today could have\u00a0homogeneity and diversity is that each region, country,\u00a0and society has long been connected with others.
\nThe trend of globalization, having begun to accelerate\u00a0after the 1980s, is now creating hyper-connectivity\u00a0never seen before in human society. The time-space\u00a0compression due to the advancement of communication\u00a0and transportation technology promotes the mobility\u00a0of humans, materials, and cultural resources, thus increasing interdependency and producing various\u00a0issues and conflicts. According to such changes, the importance of regional studies continues to\u00a0grow. For coexistence with nature, tolerance for others, and amelioration of uneven development and\u00a0inequality, the role of regional studies has become more urgent than ever as it enhances the mutual\u00a0understanding and cooperative practice of the residents of the global village.\u00a0Since its establishment in 2009, SNUAC has been undertaking tremendous efforts to be a core\u00a0institute for regional studies not only domestically but also internationally. As a result, we are now\u00a0rigorously operating our educational and academic activities with seven regional research centers,\u00a0eight thematic research programs, and the HK+ Mega-Asia Research Project supported by the National\u00a0Research Foundation as of 2024. Also, over 130 researchers and administrative staffs are cooperating\u00a0with related departments at Seoul National University, international research institutions, and\u00a0researchers. To intensify the multidisciplinary, multiregional, and international cooperative research\u00a0based on these capabilities, SNUAC has been holding over 300 academic seminars and conferences\u00a0every year.
\nSNUAC will continue to seek to establish the identity of Asian regional studies, practical solutions for\u00a0the issues of globalization, society, and industry, and pursue the popularization of knowledge. To this\u00a0end, we need not only the academic efforts of the members of SNUAC but also close cooperation with\u00a0 institutions and experts worldwide interested in the Asian region. I sincerely hope that SNUAC will\u00a0continue to contribute to the mutual human understanding of cohabitation.
\nThank you.<\/p>\n

Suhong Chae
\nDirector of SNUAC<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \u201cTo strengthen and renew SNUAC’s research\u00a0in identity and regional studies.\u201d Regional Studies, as an academic discipline, was born as\u00a0a product of Imperialism and the Cold War world order.\u00a0It was during this period in world history that modern\u00a0states saw the crucial need to study other societies\u00a0and cultures to realize their own political and economic\u00a0interests. However, even long before modern political\u00a0systems and academia were estabilished, people could\u00a0not survive without incessant material and cultural\u00a0exchanges with other people in and outside their own\u00a0region. The reason that our world today could have\u00a0homogeneity and diversity is that each region, country,\u00a0and society has long been connected with others. The trend of globalization, having begun to accelerate\u00a0after the 1980s, is now creating hyper-connectivity\u00a0never seen before in human society. The time-space\u00a0compression due to the advancement of communication\u00a0and transportation technology promotes the mobility\u00a0of humans, materials, and cultural resources, thus……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":159,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18002,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/18002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}