Hello!

Welcome to UBC’s Centre for Korean research, we are a university in Vancouver,

Canada, located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. My
name is Jeehye Kim, and I serve as Director at The Center for Korean research. We
are part of The Institute of Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and
Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

This is our fourth event this academic year, and todays’ event is titled Roundtable
on the 2022 Korean Presidential Election: Society, Politics and Foreign Relations.
We are so fortunate to have here with us today three distinguished scholars of
Korean politics, whom I would like to introduce, in last name alphabet order:

Matthew Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science

and Diplomacy at Gyeongsang National University of South Korea. He focuses on the
way political culture affects the use of social media for mass political action. He
has a regional expertise on South Korea and Japan, and also studies political
behavior and political communication more broadly. His research has appeared in
International Journal of Press/Politics, the International Journal of
Communication, and The Journal of East Asian Studies.

David C. Kang is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the

University of Southern California, with appointments in the Department of
Political Science and International Relations, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
and in the Marshall School of Business. Dr. Kang is also director of the USC Korean
Studies Institute and Vice-Chair of the Political Science and International
Relations department. Dr. Kang’s latest book is State Formation through
Emulation: the East Asian Model, coauthored with Chin-Hao Huang and is
forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. He has authored five other scholarly
books, and has published articles in journals such as International
Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and
International Security.

[Kang is a Non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,

and he is a regular consultant for U.S. government agencies and the military, Kang
has also written opinion pieces in the NewYork Times, the Financial Times, the
Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and appears regularly in media
such as CNN, PBC, the BBC, and NPR.]

Hannah Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of political science at the

University of Nebraska at Omaha. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.
Dr. Kim’s research examines public opinion, political behavior, theories of
modernization, and democracy in East Asia. Her work has been published in the
Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, and the Japanese Journal of
Political Science.

Our panelists will take turns offering a their comments on the election most
relevant to their expertise, so we have Matthew on political institutions & elite
behavior, Hannah on young voters, gendered attitudes and the future of democracy in
SK, and Dave on the implications for foreign policy. This will be followed by open
Q&A from the online audience and open discussion. I encourage our audience to type
in their questions and comments in the Q&A box. So let’s begin, with Matthew.
Thank you very much, Dave. We will now begin the Q&A + discussion. While the
audience takes a few minutes to send in the questions, I will give each panelist a
chance to ask the other two questions or comments. So let me start with Matthew.
For each question, the recommended response time would be ~5 minutes, to ensure
that we can get to as many of them.

This has been such an informative session that touched on some of the most
important take-aways from the election and implications for future policy. CKR
thanks our three panelists for making the time to share their expertise with us,
and we are also very grateful for the attentive and enthusiastic audience. We look
forward to having you back in April for at our next event. Thank you very much!