On July 22nd, Friday from 15:30 to 18:00, the Sejong Institute held a meeting with a visiting group of Mansfield Foundation for the "Bridging the Divide" program.​

At the meeting, Lee Sang Hyun, president, Lee Myon Woo, Vice President, and Choi Yoon Jung, Director of the Department of Diplomatic Strategy Studies,​ discussed about regional security, economic integration, and inter-Korean relations.​ 

Participants of the visit from the Mansfield Foundation include

 - Dyron Dabney(Director of Japan Study and Associate Professor of Politics, Earlham College)

- Sherry Martin(Foreign Affairs Research Analyst, U.S. Department of State) 

- Emer O’Dwyer(Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College and Conservatory)

- Gene Park(Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Loyola Marymount University)

- Michael Sharpe(Associate Professor, York College of the City University of New York)

- Daniel M. Smith(Associate professor, Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)