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Programme

Speakers at The Korean Conference on Education (KCE) will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. This page provides details of featured presentations, the conference schedule and other programming. For more information about presenters, please visit the Speakers page.

Conference Outline

Sunday, October 27, 2024Monday, October 28Tuesday, October 29Wednesday, October 30Thursday, October 31Friday, November 1

08:30-16:30: Pre-Conference Cultural Tour of Historic Incheon
Join fellow conference delegates before the conference for a one-day tour of beautiful and historical Ganghwa Island.
Further information
This is a ticketed event

Venue: Songdo Convensia

13:00-13:30: Conference Check-in & Coffee

13:30-13:45: Welcome Address & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners

13:45-14:15: Keynote Presentation

14:15-15:05: Keynote Presentation

15:05-15:15: Conference Photograph

15:15-15:45: Coffee Break

15:45-16:45: Featured Panel Presentation

16:45-17:45: Welcome Reception

Venue: Songdo Convensia

09:00-09:55: Conference Check-in & Coffee

09:55-10:00: Welcome Announcements

10:00-10:25: Welcome Address
Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

10:25-11:15: Keynote Presentation

11:15-12:35: Featured Panel Presentation

12:35-12:45: Conference Photograph

12:45-14:15: Lunch Break

14:15-15:25: Featured Panel Presentation

15:25-15:40: Coffee Break

15:40-16:40: Conference Poster Session

16:00-17:00: Private Tour and Workshop Session
National Museum of Word Writing System

19:00-21:00: Conference Dinner
This is a ticketed event - further information to follow

Venue: Songdo Convensia
08:30-09:30: Check-in & Coffee

09:30-11:10: Onsite Parallel Session 1

11:10-11:25: Coffee Break

11:25-13:05: Onsite Parallel Session 2

13:05-14:05: Lunch Break

14:05-15:20: Onsite Parallel Session 3

15:20-15:35: Coffee Break

15:35-16:50: Onsite Parallel Session 4

Venue: Songdo Convensia
08:30-09:30: Check-in & Coffee

09:30-11:10: Onsite Parallel Session 1

11:10-11:25: Coffee Break

11:25-13:05: Onsite Parallel Session 2

13:05-14:05: Lunch Break

14:05-15:20: Onsite Parallel Session 3

15:20-15:35: Coffee Break

15:35-16:50: Onsite Parallel Session 4

16:50-17:00: On-site Closing Session

Venue: Online via Zoom

09:20-09:30: Message from IAFOR

09:30-11:10: Online Parallel Session 1

11:10-11:25: Short Break

11:25-12:40: Online Parallel Session 2

12:40-13:40: Extended Break

13:40-15:20: Online Parallel Session 3

15:20-15:35: Short Break

15:35-17:15: Online Parallel Session 4

17:15-17:30: Message from IAFOR

The draft version of the Conference Programme will be available online on September 16, 2024. All registered delegates will be notified of this publication by email.

The above schedule may be subject to change.

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Featured Speakers

  • Oh Joon
    Oh Joon
    Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity.
As of July 25, 2024, KCE2024 has received over 600 submissions from 55 countries and territories - including: Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam

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Oh Joon
Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Biography

Oh Joon is an Eminent Scholar professor of United Nations studies at Kyung Hee University and a Visiting Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, both in Korea. He is also serving as Chair of Save the Children Korea and President of the Korea Council of Children’s Organizations.

Previously he was a diplomat of the Republic of Korea. He was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Korea to the United Nations in New York from 2013 to 2016. During this time, he served as the 71st President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and as President of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for its 8th and 9th sessions in 2015 and 2016. He was Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Singapore from 2010-13 and Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul from 2008-10.

His other international activities have included those as an Eminent Person Adviser to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in 2019; a member of the High Level Panel on the Future of Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2016-17; a member of the Korea Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 2010-13; the Chair of the United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) in 2006; and the Chair of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in 2004-05.

Professor Oh is currently working with several civil society organizations in addition to Save the Children. He works on the rights of persons with disabilities both in Korea and internationally, including with the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and Rehabilitation International (RI). In 2018, he served as an Honorary Ambassador for the Paralympic Winter Games held in Pyeongchang , Korea.

The Korean Government awarded him an Order of Service Merit twice, in 1996 and 2006. In 2018, he received a Global Korea Award from Michigan State University in the United Sates. Rehabilitation International (RI) gave him a Global Presidential Award in 2016 in acknowledgment of his achievements as President of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He also received the 2014 Youngsan Diplomat of the Year Award for his work on North Korean human rights issues. He published his first book in Korean “For Mica, Who Contemplates Life” in 2015.

He received a Master’s degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University (1991- 92); a diploma in International and Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1982-83); and a Bachelor’s in French literature from Seoul National University (1974-78). He was also a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1990-91).

Keynote Presentation (2024) | TBA