The "Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum" Held In-Person at Dongseo University After 4 Years

The ‘20th Anniversary International Academic Conference of the Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum,’ organized by the Dongseo University Japan Research Center and hosted by the Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum, will be held in person for the first time in four years on the 24th at Dongseo University Jurye Campus.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the forum, which will be held under the theme ‘Identity: Past, Present? Future.’

The forum will be attended by next-generation researchers who will bear the future of both Korea and Japan. They will present and discuss in nine divisions: international relations, politics and law, history, language and literature, society and gender, religion and thought, folklore and anthropology, culture and arts, and economy and business administration.

The forum will begin with division presentations at 9:30 a.m. on the 24th, followed by the opening remarks at 1:30 p.m. by Jang Je-guk (President of Dongseo University), representative of the Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum, and a congratulatory speech by Oscar Tsuyoshi, Consul General of Japan in Busan. From 2 p.m., a panel discussion featuring emerging researchers from both Korea and Japan will take place.

Dongseo University New Millennium Hall.

The emerging researchers participating in the discussion are past participants of the forum’s international academic conferences and are currently professors engaged in research activities and mentoring students at universities and research institutions in both Korea and Japan.

From the Korean side, 67 master's and doctoral students from 22 universities including Dongseo University, Yonsei University, Korea University, Seoul National University, Chung-Ang University, and Pusan National University will attend as presenters and designated discussants. From the Japanese side, 105 master's and doctoral students from 38 universities including the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and Keio University will participate.

Additionally, 33 graduate students from China, Belgium, and other countries studying in Japan will also join.

Jang Je-guk, representative of the Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum, said, “As a result of consistently holding international academic conferences over the past 20 years, the Korea-Japan Next Generation Academic Forum has now established itself as a representative human exchange platform among next-generation researchers of both Korea and Japan. We will continue to develop it further toward the next 20 years.”