1. Agenda Setting regarding the May 18 Democratic Uprising and spreading the May 18 spirit

• Organize and support global conferences and symposia in the field of freedom, justice, democracy, human rights, peace and May 18
• Promote May 18 research to the public through lectures by researchers

2. Building a platform and network for research on freedom, justice, democracy, human rights, and peace

• Joint conferences on various topics related to May 18 to build up a research network
• Run programs to support and fund individual researchers as well as research institutes

3. Sharing the May 18 spirit with all ‘global citizens’

• Collect and translate oral histories from Korean: Our researchers are translating the testimonies of the May 18 records, listed as UNESCO Memory of the World, in order to share them with the rest of the world
• Publish and translate various May 18-related materials to foster the globalization of the May 18 Democratic Uprising
• Construct databases and provide data services for the systematic collection and dissemination of May 18-related research results

4. Suggesting policy directions to follow-up on the May 18 Democratization Movement Truth Commission’s findings

• As the central research institute for May 18-related research, we work on a constructive agenda to foster May 18-related fact-finding