From this homepage
http://en.korea.com/

look on the right for a blue and white button saying Royal Asiatic…etc.

Thanks in advance.

This is very good news, that RAS Lectures finally start being online!

I really hope the NGOs and others interested in the plight of the North Korean people will also QUICKLY get to understand how much broadban’s expansion in the world —– has opened up a tremendous opportunity to get the information they collect out!!!

Next, I hope the RAS videos can inspire some of the other orgs who frequently have lectures and panel discussions concerning Korea to get with the broadban revolution.

It would be a bright idea for The Korea Foundation to try to work with some of the well-known Korean Studies centers in the world to pool together videos like this in a central place like The Korea Foundation.

I know the Korea Foundation has contacts with these centers duing the year.

And it really is simple to put together. You don’t need to waste much money at all on production value. People who want to hear stuff like this care about the words spoken, not the presentation.

C-Span’s coverage of the US House of Representatives or Senate is a good example. Just put a camera on a tripod and press “record” — then upload it to a webserver with a few basic titles added — and you are good to go.

With the Korea Foundations connections, I believe it could be the right group to centralize the effort.

I know the U. of Hawaii holds a few Korea-related public lectures and/or panel discussions and the East-West Center there offers several a year as well that include Korea and things connected to Korea in East Asia.

There really is no excuse for such a pooling of current work on Korea being done.

It certainly shouldn’t be because of costs.

It also certainly shouldn’t be because of lack of technical skills. You don’t have to hire an outside company to do this stuff. You can find college students on campus who know enough about video cameras and video editing to do a good enough job. (If I can do it, most anybody who tries can as well).

I guess there could be some problem is professors or other specialists don’t want their work available like that in the public domain - but what percentage of profs would really be like that? I would think most of the profs I’ve had over the years, and there have been a whole lot, would be fine with having their message and learning (which took them so long to build) were reaching a wider and wider audience.

If a high percentage of profs would object to allowing such videos to be put up like that - it would say something rather sorry about academia….

Anyway……..I thank the RASKB very much for this

and I hope it is the start of many other orgs like theirs following their lead…..

My friends and I were very impressed and happy with the presentation until that little gem slipped out.

. . . the all powerful teachers union has been dominated by pro-NK elements; the wrong kind of history is being taught (in South Korea) . . .

Given time, I think many South Koreans would recognize this fact since South Koreans are certainly not dumb, however the South Korean Government should take far more action against this sort of activity since it undermines their very authority or right to govern.

Exposing and discussing the motivation behind the lies and ignorance that is used to promote a particular brand of politics is not the activity of a “cold-war” mentality but a requirement for social and political integrity in any democratic society.

I only fear the activities of certain elements in South Korea and the nuclear testing of NK as a means of fomenting social unrest in South Korea. If the housing price bubble does bust due to the increasing household debt (there is the potential for this more than ever), the resulting economic distress could be used to reshape the society and public opinion (just as happened with the IMF crisis) into something more accommodating to North Korea. Considering the bits and pieces of information that is available, this sort of scenario is not far-fetched at all.