15.00 – 16.15 International Relations (1) – Room 1

Moderator - Yonson Ahn

Kang Myung Koo - Dreams and Un-dreams of Korean and Japanese Youth

Mark E. Caprio - Dregs of Colonialism: The Wartime Origins of Korea’s Post-Liberation Occupation

Zhyldyz Tegizbekova - Korea’s foreign and trade policy in Central Asia (case of Kyrgyz Republic)

15.00 – 16.15 - International Relations (2) -Room 2

Moderator - Rainer Dormels -

Jeong O Park - Romania and North Korea – A Comparative Study on the Communist Dictatorship

Yusuf Gökhan Satıcı - China’s Rise and its Implications to Korean Peninsula

Cristina Ariton-Gelan - Politics and ideology in the Korean Peninsula after 1990

16.30 – 17.45- International relations (3) – Room 1

Moderator - Valentina Marinescu

Dong No Kim - Distant Neighbors: The Burden of History and Historical Reconciliation

Alice Stehlíčková - South Korea and its capabilities to counter cyber warfare

Lauren Richardson - Engaging North Korea through the Colonial Past

16.30 – 17.45 - International relations (4) Room 2

Moderator - Stephen Epstein

Irina Roibu - Women's role in Korea's development

Fabio Indeo - South Korea's energy security: existent vulnerabilities and challenges for the future

Marianne Jung - Economic Policy Perspectives: Laying grounds for successfully integrating North Korean new settlers

10.00-11.30- Hallyu and Popular Diplomacy (1) –Room 1

Moderator - Mark E. Caprio

Doboo Shim - Chinese Dream, Cool Japan, and Korean Wave: The Soft Power of East Asian Countries among Young Adults in the U.S. Heartland

Chris G. Larsen - Sports and Cultural Diplomacy: The Korean Peninsula

Lee-Kil-ho - Critical discourses on Hallyu and South Korean’s cultural expansionism

Ji Sun Kim - Perspectives on Austrian music education for South Korean students

10.00-11.30- Hallyu and Popular Diplomacy (2)-Room 2

Moderator - Dong No Kim

Stephen Epstein - From South Korea to the Southern Hemisphere: K-Pop Below the Equator

Dong Ju Kim- Popular Belief and the Reproduction of Scientific Authority: Some Reflections based on the Case of Korean Cosmetics

Virgine Borges de Castilho - From Korean immigration to the hallyu phenomenon: Korean culture from the perspective of the past and present in Brazil

Adele Lee - The Shakespearean Wave in Korea

11.45 – 13.00 - Culture and society (1) - Room 1

Moderator – Youngmi Kim

Rainer Dormels - Regionalism in South Korea – reasons, changes and comparative aspects

Elena A. Ostrovskaya - Traditional Religious Ideologies as Non-Governmental Organizations in Russia and South Korea: Comparative Analyses

Ecaterina Balica - South and North Korea in Romanian Internet News Media

11.45-13.00 - Culture and society (2) - Room 2

Moderator – Chris Larsen

Yonson Ahn -Nurses in motion: Korean migrant nurses in Germany

Rimma K. Tangalycheva - The image of Korea in Russian media and mass consciousness

Geun Young Lee - Emergence of Institutions and Changes in the type of Corruption in DPRK

14.30-16.00 – Culture and society (3) - Room 1

Moderator – Daniel Pinkston

Evelyne Chérel-Riquier - Politics of memory: the Kwangju movement (1980)

Jung Suk Yoo - Narratives of Family and Gender Discourse in Modern Korean Literature

Löwensteinová Miriam - Two different views on Russia: Yun Ch´iho and Min Yonghwan´s Diares

Robert-Winstanley-Chesters - The Socialist Modern at Rest and Play: Spaces of Leisure in North Korea

14.30 – 16.00 – Culture and society (4) - Room 2

Moderator - Lee-Kil-ho

Hong Sora - La naissance de la nouvelle génération du cinéma sud-coréen dans les années 1970-1980

Hun Hee Cho - Les centres commerciaux verticaux: Les nouveaux lieux marchands, la forme et le sens de la mutation urbaine

Pascal Kim - Death of God; a “dog” reincarnated: Social and Political Issues on Korea’s Christianity and its faltering

Catalina Stanciu - A Topos of Thanatos and Narrator’s Formation under War Circumstances in Yun Heung-gil’s “The Levee from Nongrim School”

9.00– 10.00 Culture and history (5) – Room 1

Moderator - Adele Lee

Pawel Kida - E-learning: A case study of Moodle-Teaching Korean Vocabulary

Raluca Simion - Cybercrime in Romania and Korea. Challenges and Responses

Ken’ichiro Higuchi- "The Rise of English” in South Korea under the U.S. Occupation

9.00– 10.15 - Student Session – Room 2

Moderator - Jung Suk Yoo

Irina Buliga - Buddhist Philosophy in Goryeo/ Koryŏ Buddhist painting: Vairocana Fifteen Thousand Buddhas

Daniela Codreanu - Women in Korea

Mariana Balica – South Korean companies in East European countries: Values and Identity

10.30 - 11.45 – Romanian-Korean Intercultural Association session - Room 1

Moderator - Cătălina Stanciu

Adina Elena Voicilă - The Korean Development Experience -Promoting Human Security through Development and Humanitarian Assistance

Cornelia Lincan - Reassessing the East Asian regionalism - South Korea’s approach towards multilateral institutionalisation and the prospects of regional cooperation

Marilena Ene – South Korea – North Korea relations and their impact on the geopolitics of Asia and the foreign policies of United States in the region

Diana Pișcărac - The Confucian Scholar Meets the Suicidal Teenager: Development and Challenges in the Korean Educational System

10.30 - 11.45 – Students session – Room 2

Moderator - Pascal Kim

Gabriela Drîmbă - Korea: Soft power and nation branding

Dana Ivancea – Beauties of Korea

Cirstea Tudor, Antoniu Dana Gabriela, Stefanescu Monica Teodora, Pana Andreea – Merchandising: Albums - Korean vs International

Carmen Voinea - Plastic surgery in South Korea: Normative body modification between S-Line and V-line