[EAI 10th Anniversary] Professor Park Jihyang Special Lecture

YouTube Link: video.eai.or.kr/120621_eai10live.flv

To commemorate its 10th anniversary, EAI is hosting a series of public lectures featuring distinguished scholars of our time. The third lecture featured Professor Park Jihyang, Professor of Western History at Seoul National University, on the topic of “The Path to Modernity: Britain and Korea,” held at the Kukdo Hotel.

Professor Park Jihyang

"Professor Park Jihyang's calm perspective is not only empathetic but also deeply moving." (Professor Jeon Jin-moon, Yeungnam University)

She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Western History from Seoul National University and is currently a professor in the same department at her alma mater. She became a British historian drawn by the question, "If Britain is the country where many institutions that form the axis of the modern world, such as capitalism and parliamentary democracy, originated, shouldn't we understand that country first?" Why not learn from her about how Britain's successes and failures can serve as valuable lessons for us? Her published works include "British, So Very British," "Sad Ireland," "A History of Britain: A Drama of Conservatism and Reform," "Imperialism: Myth and Reality," and "The Diary of Yun Chi-ho's Cooperation."