Biography
James F. Larson first experienced Korea as an American Peace Corps Volunteer from 1971 to 1972, teaching English at Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, South Korea. In 1978, he returned to the United States and earned his PhD in Communication at Stanford University. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Technology and Society at SUNY Korea, having originally joined SUNY Korea in 2014 serving as Chair of the department for four years, three of which he concurrently served as Vice President for Academic Affairs (Provost). He previously taught at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST, South Korea), The National University of Singapore, the University of Washington (United States), Yonsei University (South Korea), and the University of Texas at Austin (United States). From 1995 to 1996, he directed a major executive training program for Korea Mobile Telecom (now SK Telecom) at the University of Colorado Boulder, United States. He then spent fourteen years managing technology and testing activities (all computer-based TOEFL and other CBT in South Korea) as Associate and later Deputy Director of the Fulbright Commission in Seoul. His books include Television's Window on the World: International Affairs Coverage on the U.S. Networks, with H.S. Park (Ablex, 1984), Global Television and the Politics of the Seoul Olympics (Westview Press, 1993), The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Digital Development in Korea: Building an Information Society with Dr Myung Oh (Routledge, 2011). The second edition of Digital Development in Korea was published in 2020 with a new subtitle, ‘Lessons for a Sustainable World’.
Panel Presentation (2024) | Korea’s Pivotal Role in the World: Challenges and Opportunities in Leadership
