Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wagner calls this decision "wrong". He adds, "If you don't have anything to do with a regime like that, you throw away an opportunity to influence a situation." The Korea Institute, which Wagner heads, and other Harvard research centers have maintained open relations with Korea...
...academic ties to Korea are reinforced by Korea's financial contributions to several programs and institutes. Wagner says that there was a "small grant" to the Korea Institute made by the Korean Research Organization last fall to help publish an English lay journal of Korean studies. Other joint Harvard Korean projects include a ten volume analysis of the modernization of Korea, of which nine have been completed, written in a cooperative effort between the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the Korea Development Institute...
...most visible connection between Harvard and Korea is this exchange of scholarship and of scholars. Last spring, Harvard's Mason Fellows a one-year program in public administration for middle-level officials from developing countries directed from HIID, traveled for ten days through Korea to learn from the Korean experience first-hand. Similarly, Harvard's Graduate School of Design announced last spring that a new program aimed at teaching land planning skills to foreign professionals would open with a group of eight executives from the Korea Land Development Corporation...
...appears that since the 1970s when Harvard's connections with Korea were controversial enough to involve Harvard in the Congressional investigation, there has been a lessening of attention focusing on these ties, but no clear affirmation of any particular policy...
...Korea there is a joke about Kim Dae Jung. It says that as difficult as it is to save a life, in Kim's case it is difficult to die. Sitting in his small office on the fourth floor of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Kim chuckles as he explains the joke. There have been several serious attempts on his life since he became an opposition leader and advocate of democracy in South Korean politics in the 1960s...