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30 Sep IKSU Book Talk Series: A Little Learning: The motivation, context and culture of education in the DPR Korea

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IKSU Book Talk Series:

‘A Little Learning: The motivation, context and culture of education in the DPR Korea and the work of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology (PUST)’

Professor Colin McCulloch, Dean of International Finance and Management, PUST

 

14 October 2022

02:00pm, BB438, Brook Building, UCLan

Bio:

Colin McCulloch lectures on business at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). He currently serves as Dean of the College of
International Finance and Management. After reading engineering at Cambridge, his career included design,
technical and business consultancy to a variety of companies worldwide, in a range of industries, latterly in
product and software marketing and business strategy. In the early 2000s, a shift of orientation to East Asia
included Chinese, and later, Korean studies at Sheffield University. He has been living and teaching in
Pyongyang since October 2010, when he started work as one of the first team of foreign staff at PUST. Since
border closures in 2020; however, he has been unable to return to the campus. Teaching has continued
remotely. He now mainly teaches courses in business, management and related topics, helps to arrange
scholarships and opportunities for PUST students to live and study abroad, and assists in public relations for
the university. His professional and personal research interests are now mainly in heterodox and green
economics and the intersection of philosophy, ecology and society. At the lecture, he will discuss the
philosophy, aims, desired outcomes and methods of education, and the unusual synthesis of global, western,
and DPRK educational approaches found in the decade-long work of PUST.

 

 

 

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