On April 1, 2008, Evans J.R. Revere, president of The Korea Society, moderated a panel with Zarin Mehta, president and executive director of the New York Philharmonic, Daniel J. Wakin, culture reporter for The New York Times, and Chuck R. Lustig, director of foreign news for ABC News, in which they discussed the New York Philharmonic's February performance in North Korea, as well as the events that led to the historic event.

On February 7, 2008, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, delivered at lecture at The Korea Society entitled "Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity." The lecture was in support of "Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood," an exhibition of toys from 1970s and 1980s Korea, showing at The Korea Society gallery, and available for travel around the United States in 2008.

On Thursday, November 29, 2007, author Cullen Thomas spoke to The Korea Society's Samuel Jamier about his prison memoir, "Brother One Cell," a literary account of a journey at the edges of Korean society.

On Tuesday, February 12th, 2008, Hazel Smith, professor of international relations at the University of Warwick, delivered a presentation at The Korea Society titled "North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces." She provided data and insights into how various groups in the DPRK adapted to survive the famine of the mid-1990s.

On Monday, January 28th, 2008, General B.B. Bell, commander of United States Forces Korea, spoke to The Korea Society about the U.S.-R.O.K. alliance and its evolution from Cold-War paradigms to a long-term bilateral partnership based on shared interests in East Asia.

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