Korea University

Co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation, this course is designed to provide a valuable learning experience on how South Korea has been conducting its regional and functional public diplomacy with a focus on its key issues and prospects. It further explores South Korea’s attractive points in its foreign and security policy implementation process as a part of conducting its public diplomacy. Various public diplomacy strategies will be discussed, such as how Korea can shape the perceptions of other countries on itself through appeal and attraction, determined by a country’s policies, culture, and values. This course provides both theoretical and practical views on South Korea’s public diplomacies in various aspects and in diverse regions across the world. In addition to several GSIS faculty members, former ambassadors and high-level executives who were at the forefront of Korea’s diplomacy have been invited as instructors for this course.

This course examines the process by which government agencies select certain values as policy goals, focus on particular dimensions of complex social problems, and formulate policy solutions. Key concepts and theories are examined along with systematic discussion of relevant cases.

This course provides a general survey of the historical development of various aspects of Korean civilization, including politics, society and economy, thought and religion, and the arts. Half of the course covers the main themes in Korean history and their historical interpretations, from prehistoric times to the modern period. It also pays special attention to social systems, religion and culture, as well as the changing geopolitics of the region. The other half of the course will take a comparative approach by examining contemporaneous China, Japan, and northeast Asia, identifying similarities and differences between the regions. Through this course, students will have a better understanding of the challenges Korea faced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the historical processes through which Korea, China, and Japan developed.

This course provides holistic and comprehensive coverage of the development and implementation of business and functional action strategies for firms in manufacturing and service industries. It investigates the recent changes in platform business models and strategies related to the advances in IoT, AI, blockchain technologies, industry 4.0, smart factory, digital transformation, etc. It also delves into enterprise risk management (including COVID-19 pandemic) and sustainable ESG management issues. Specifically, the course covers: 1) Business model and strategy development, including environment, capability and resource analyses, corporate vision, competitive strategy and priority, operating pipeline and platform business models, and performance management and assessment, 2) Details of technology and innovation strategies, operations and supply chain strategies, procurement and supply management strategies, and enterprise risk management strategies, 3) Corporate growth strategies and required capabilities and resources in different growth stages, including the 4th industrial revolution and blue ocean shift strategies, and 4) Social value and sustainability management strategies based on the triple bottom line. 

The course provides a study of of Korean society and culture through a sociological perspective. In addition, this course helps students acquire relevant methods to understand diverse societies and cultures in the globalizing world

This course examines the basics of nuclear and particle physics. The first part of the course covers nuclear physics and the second part covers particle physics.

This course covers vegetables and herbs including tissue anatomy, physiology and biochemical responses, cultivation, health-promoting effects, and secondary metabolism. Current issues of postharvest techniques and production of vegetables and herbs are also discussed.

This course introduces different approaches to learning and memory including behavioral, computational, and cognitive. It analyzes recent findings in neuroscience, qualitative and quantitative models of learning, real-world examples, and clinical cases.

This course is designed to present the fundamentals of negotiation; the art and science of addressing disputes, and securing agreements between two or more parties. The course material is relevant to a wide variety of problems faced by professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs; it aims at successfully conducting negotiations in a variety of settings. Students engage in diverse negotiation exercises, followed by debriefings of the exercises and brief lectures and illustrations on the science of negotiation.

This course examines various ethical issues involving the Internet. Its unique architecture creates various legal and policy conflicts in freedom of speech (e.g., right to be forgotten), privacy (e.g., mass surveillance), anonymity, common carrier rules (e.g., net neutrality), intermediary liability, data protection, hate speech, domain name disputes, spam regulation, online copyright infringement, pornography and jurisdictional issues. In these debates, what is the role of law or the rule of law? Canvassing the laws of selected countries and international and regional law such as GDPR, e-Commerce Directive, UN Human Rights Committee recommendations, the course attempts to identify a globally consistent set of theories and arguments that have gained normative and prescriptive traction in the relevant regional or international debates.