Highways in the Sky: South Korea’s Highland Road Construction, Labor Mobilization, and Energy Transition, 1953-1965

Discipline : History
Speaker(s) : Jaeyoung Ha (UC San Diego)
Language : Korean

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Korean Legal History Research Center's 6th colloquium “Highways in the Sky: South Korea’s Highland Road Construction, Labor Mobilization, and Energy Transition, 1953-1965” is a talk via Zoom.


About the Speaker

Jaeyoung Ha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UC San Diego. Ha is currently working on his dissertation, "Frontier Above the Clouds: Trans-Pacific Development, Rehabilitation, and Colonization of South Korean Mountains, 1945-1972." In this project, Ha investigates mining, reforestation, road and dam construction, and national park projects in the South Korean highlands as a comprehensive mountain development project during the Cold War. Ha was an SNU Kyujanggak Junior Fellow (2022) and was recently named an Honorable Mention for the Marilyn Blatt Young Fellowship at SHAFR.

 

※ This talk will be presented in Korean, but English slides will be provided to attendees. The presenter will also take questions in English in the Q&A section.

 

※ For more information about the Center, please go to Korean Legal History Research Center's website.

> http://krlegalhistory.hanyang.ac.kr/eng/ <

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