In modern times, "identity" represents a multi-faceted key category in academic discussion. In this conference volume, the importance and impact of identity on society, statehood and policy making is discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective by researchers from Germany and Korea.

The notion of identity and its formative effects on the individual and on society, media, modern statehood, and international policy making, require an interdisciplinary debate. It is also important to have a multi-layered discussion about identity that includes various dimensions such as culture, family and religion - also from an intercultural perspective. In 2019, 15 scientists from Germany and Korea debated on the key category identity, considering different cultural backgrounds as well as various fields of academic research. The 12th German-Korean Colloquium was hosted by Klaus Stüwe in Eichstätt and continued the longtime partnership between the Sogang University Seoul and the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In this conference volume, selected contributions to this interdisciplinary German-Korean dialog are presented.

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Dr. Lisa Hartmann studierte Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft sowie Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der Katholischen Universität-Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, an der Università degli Studi Bologna (Italien) und der Sogang University Seoul (Südkorea). Im November 2021 wurde sie an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, wo sie während ihrer Promotion als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft sowie am Zentralinstitut für Ehe und Familie in der Gesellschaft tätig war, promoviert. Prof. Dr. Klaus Stüwe holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science at the KU. His research activities include various questions of democratic systems, government and parliamentarism.