Professor Victor T. King has been invited to join an international research team coordinated by Professor Lee Ocksoon, Research Director, Institute for East Asian Studies, Seoul, Korea, on the general theme of 'Southeast Asia as an Open Regional System' and will be contributing to the reseach cluster headed by Professor Park Seong Woo, Yeungnam University, on 'The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies'. He will participate in the Sogang International Conference on Southeast Asia to be held in Seoul on 19-20 March 2010.