In celebration of the publication of the Introductory Sourcebooks on the Current Status of Overseas Korean Literature, the authors and researchers who participated in the production of the sourcebooks gathered to assess the needs of today’s overseas Korean literature as a valuable cultural asset of world literature at this symposium. The symposium was divided into two sessions: Part 1 examined the overall history and flow of overseas migration of Koreans and Korean diaspora literature, and discussed Korean diaspora literature in the Americas and post-Soviet states, and Part 2 focused on Korean diaspora literature in China and Korean diaspora literature in Japan under the theme of diasporic life and art in East Asia.