The East Asia Institute(EAI) invites undergraduate and master’s degree students(including recent graduates) to share their visions on the critical challenges facing the global society at the "2014 EPIK Young Leaders Conference: Essay Competition." The EPIK Young Leaders Conference has become an annual academic forum for young leaders since its successful start in 2010. In light of the rapidly changing dynamics in today’s globalized societies, youth has become a major player in adjusting these transformations to meet different needs. This essay competition strives to offer a great opportunity for students not only to present their own understanding of the issue based on their comprehensive research, but also to expand their human networks with each other by participating in live discussions during the conference altogether. We encourage you to think analytically, creatively, and strategically by participating the "2014 EPIK Young Leaders Conference" in Seoul, Korea.
The EAI hopes that the participants will be able to share their thoughts on various areas including, but not limited to, international politics, security, economics, business management, and science as well as to ponder their roles in this ever changing world. We expect that participants will develop their academic knowledge and writing quality throughout the process of expressing ideas and learn about different views.
Theme Followership: A New Approach to Understanding Leadership Followers and leaders have co-existed in every aspect of human societies, across time and across space. Despite the co-existing relationship and mutual interactions between the two constituents of social structures, there has been a relative lack of scholarly attention and study on the role of followers and how followership complements leadership. The onset of the 21st century characterized by the information revolution, democratization and globalization, however, casts new-fangled light on followership and the role of followers in initiating or responding to various social changes and challenges. Followers can sustain, complement, or challenge existing leadership. Without followership and the acceptance of the existing leadership, the legitimacy of leaders can be significantly diminished in governments, companies, and many other social institutions. In a reciprocal way, followership cannot exist or be maintained without leadership. Therefore, followership and leadership can be characterized as a coherent whole. With this in mind, how should we conceptualize followership of the 21st century? How can we best understand the role of followership in its relation to leadership? 2014 EPIK Young Leaders Conference invites bright young scholars from around the world in various academic disciplines to ponder upon the role of followership in its interaction with leadership and suggest the outlook of followership in the 21st century, exploring various historical and contemporary issues. You may write your essay employing any academic field of your choice.
Eligibility for Participation
Deadlines and Requirements 1. First Round
2. Second Round
3. Final Draft Submission
4. Essay Presentation and Award Ceremony ● Finalists will attend the conference to present their papers and participate in discussion with other discussants.
Awards
1st-place winner: 2,000,000 KRW
*Travel expenses will not be covered by EAI.
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