▲ This photo, provided by SM Entertainment, shows EXO's SUHO. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

▲ This photo, provided by SM Entertainment, shows chief producer Lee Soo-man. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

▲ This photo, provided by Stanford University, shows conference speakers (from left to right) Ban Ki-moon, Kathryn Moler, SUHO, Soo-Man Lee, Marci Kwon, Michael McFaul, Siegfried Hecker, Kim Hyong-O, Dafna Zur, H.R. McMaster, Michelle Cho, Gabriella Safran. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- SM Entertainment’s chief producer Lee Soo-man and group EXO’s member SUHO will attend the U.S. Standford University’s Korean Studies conference.

A Korean studies conference, with Lee Soo-man and SUHO, will open on May 19~20, 2022, according to Standford’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), on Thursday.

The program will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Korea Program at Standard and focus on North Korea’s geopolitics and South Korea’s pop culture wave Hallyu, including K-pop and K-drama.

Chief producer Lee, who has been invited to give a lecture, will share the future vision of K-pop. Lee also visited Standford in 2011 and talked about Hallyu’s business strategies.

EXO’s SUHO will participate in a panel for the Hallyu discussion and share his experience as a K-pop artist.

Aside from the two, Ban Ki-moon, the former United Nations Secretary-General will deliver a keynote speech and directer Lee Hark-joon will reveal two documentary trailers, one on K-pop and the other on North Korean rights.

The panel also includes Cho Joo-hee, Seoul Bureau Chief at ABC News, Angela Killoren, CEO of CJ ENM America, Kim Sook, the former South Korean Ambassador to the UN, and Park Joon-woo, the former South Korean Ambassador to the EU.

The Program’s founding director, Shin Gi-wook said, “The conference will be an opportunity to consider ways to shift the focus to academic interest in Korean studies, taking the subject of K-pop and North Korean human rights issues, which are the most popular areas in the U.S. regarding South Korea.”

Shin emphasized, “We tried our best to create an interesting event rather than a solid academic conference, by inviting field workers and a Hallyu star in addition to professors and scholars.”

(This article is translated from Korean to English by An Hayeon.)


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