INITIATIVES

Korean American Students Conference (KASCON)

Since its birth in 1987 at Princeton University, KASCON has touched the lives of thousands of Korean-American students. The Conference has helped them explore their heritage and shape their future roles in American society by bringing them in touch with each other with prominent Korean-American role models. KASCON enjoys a success unimagined by its original founders and by its past and present organizers. However, without a permanent advisory body to link the conferences together, each Conference has become an isolated event. And, while the chief strength of the Conference is the fact that these Conferences are organized and run by students for students, the inexperience of student organizers can be the Conferences’ greatest weakness. Past organizers created the Foundation to link each Conference to one another and to ensure that KASCON remains a student-run conference that also benefits from the advice and experience of past organizers, speakers, and supporters. 

Previous KASCON Hosts

2008   Emory University
2007   University of California San Diego
2006   Princeton University
2005   University of Washington
2004   Yale University
2003   Cornell University
2002   Colorado University, Boulder
2001   UCLA
2000   Rutgers University
1999   Stanford, UC Berkeley
1998   Yale, Wesleyan
1997   Johns Hopkins, Georgetown,
           University of Maryland, College Park
1996   University of Texas, Austin, Rice
1995   Harvard, MIT, Wellesley College, BU
1994   University of Pennsylvania
1993   Stanford, UC Berkeley
1992   University of Chicago, Northwestern,
           University of Illinois
1991   Columbia, NYU, West Point Academy
1990   Harvard, MIT, Wellesley College,
           Tufts, Boston University
1989   Georgetown University
1988   Princeton University
1987   Princeton University