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8:30 AM – 9:00 AM                            Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM                            Welcoming Remarks & Introduction

Welcoming Remarks: Jisoo M. Kim

Introduction: Celeste Arrington and Patricia Goedde

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM                          Panel I: Rights in Historical Perspective

Discussant: Li Chen (University of Toronto)

Legal Disputes and the Precursors of Rights (Kwŏlli) in Chosŏn Korea

Jisoo M. Kim (George Washington University)

Precarious Inheritance: Women and the Rights over Separate Property in Colonial Korea

Sungyun Lim (University of Colorado, Boulder)

A Tale of Two Commissions: The Evolution of Rights Claims in the Jeju Commission and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea

Hun Joon Kim (Korea University)

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM                          Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM                             Panel II: Institutional Mechanisms for Rights Claiming

Discussants: Stephan Haggard (University of California, San Diego) and

         Eric Feldman (University of Pennsylvania)

The State, the Constitutional Court, and I: Fundamental Rights and Judicial Review in Korea

Hannes Mosler (Freie Universität Berlin)

Evolving Legal Opportunity Structures in South Korea

Celeste Arrington (George Washington University)

The Institutional Development and Sustainability of Public Interest Lawyering in Korea

Patricia Goedde (Sungkyunkwan University)

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM                             Coffee Break

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM                             Panel III: Mobilizing Rights for the Marginalized

  Discussants: Eric Feldman (University of Pennsylvania) and

   Sida Liu (University of Toronto)

The Disability Rights Movement and Legal Practice in South Korea

Jae Won Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)

Now, Later, Never: On Shigisangjo and Prematurity

Ju Hui Judy Han (University of C

Diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States

Diplomatic mission

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States. Its main chancery is located at 2450 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. The current ambassador is Cho Hyun-dong.

Building details

Due to the rather small size of its main building, the embassy has an annex nearby in Arlington County, Virginia. It also occupies two additional buildings close to its chancery to house its Consular Section and a Korean Cultural Center. The ambassador's residence is located in the nearby Spring Valley neighborhood, close to American University.

Consulates

The embassy operates consulates general in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. In addition to those consulates general, the embassy also maintains consulates in Anchorage,Dallas, and Hagåtña.

A statue of Dr. Philip Jaisohn, an independence activist and journalist, was dedicated in 2008 in front of the Consular Section building at 2320 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.

The consulate includes the Korean Education Center.

List of ambassadors

Main article: List of ambassadors of South Korea to the United States

After the independence of Korea from Japanese rule in 1945, and the founding of Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 1948, South Korea immediately restored normal diplomatic relationship with

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The South Korean ambassador to the United States (Korean: 주미대한민국대사; Hanja: 駐美大韓民國大使) is the chief diplomatic representative of the Republic of Korea accredited to the United States.

After the independence of Korea from Japanese rule in 1945, and the founding of Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 1948, South Korea immediately restored normal diplomatic relationship with the United States and has since been sending ambassadors to the United States. Although Chang Myon is officially recorded as the first ambassador serving from February 1949, Chough Pyung-ok was recognized in August 1948 as the Special Representative of the President of South Korea with a personal rank of Ambassador. Chang replaced Chough in January 1949 in the same capacity, and was appointed as the first ambassador the following month.

South Korea has so far sent twenty-four ambassadors to the United States, excluding 2 Chargé d'affaires a.i. (Koo Chong-whay and Oh Jay-hee). As Chung Il-kwon served twice as the third and fifth ambassador, a total of twenty-three different people have served in the position.

Reflecting the United States' significance to South Korea's diplomacy, almost all of these ambassadors have been chosen from elites in their respective fields. For instance, the four most recent ambassadors have all been either career diplomats who had served in the high levels of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (e.g., Ahn Ho-young, Choi Young-jin, and Lee Tae-sik), or in high government positions such as Prime Minister and head of the Finance Ministry (e.g., Han Duck-soo) before being appointed to Washington, D.C.

A complete list of ambassadors is provided below in the order of appointment. All held the title of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary while in office.

Ambassadors