Schedule
Session 1
Chair: PARK Sang-jun (Waseda University; Editor-in-Chief of KJJS)
Presentations and Discussions
Presenter: CHO Hyun Jung (KAIST) “The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo and the Wooden Spectacle”
Discussant: KIM Hyojin (Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Presenter: KU Seunghwan (Kyoto Sangyo University) “Structural Changes and Innovations in the Kansai and Osaka Regional Economy: Co-evolution of Cities and Enterprises”
Discussant: PAK Seong Bin (Ajou University)
Session 2
Chair: KIM Baek Yung (Seoul National University; Editor of KJJS Vol. 33)
Presentations and Discussions
Presenter: PARK Haenam (Keimyung University) “Formation and Transformation of Megacities in Kansai and the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam Region”
Discussant: YANG Seunghoon (Kyungnam University)
Presenter: SOHN Sukeui (Northeast Asian History Foundation) “Polarizing Local Politics in Osaka: A Dual Structure of Confrontation and Co-optation”
Discussant: YOO Minyoung (Sungkyunkwan University)
Presenter: PARK Sung-hyun (Keimyung University) “Thirty Years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Birth of Kobe Nagata’s ‘Outing Museum’: Educational Movements and Family Photographs of Second-Generation Koreans in Japan”
Discussant: PARK Jeehwan (Seoul National University)
