Center for Korea Studies

The field of Korea Studies includes research of the society, history, language, economics, politics, religion and culture of Korea from antiquity to the present. As Korea becomes evermore prominent in an increasingly interconnected world, Korea Studies scholarship has come to play a key role in understanding and informing global interactions of people and ideas.

Academy of Korean Studies Grant
The Center for Korea Studies has received a five-year grant from the Academy of Korean Studies in the amount of $1.2 million. Starting in the autumn of 2006, the grant has funded a variety of projects in the Center under the aegis of the project entitled: "Liberation, Industrialization, Democratization, and Globalization: Integrating Korean History and Culture into World Historical Narratives." Ongoing work supported by the Academy grant includes textbook development, a Korea Studies colloquia series, the annual K-12 Teachers' Conference on Korea Studies, faculty and graduate student support, an exchange professor program, cataloguing of the James B. Palais collection in the UW East Asia Library, publication projects with the University of Washington Press, the Liberation Space Conference on modern Korean literature in the fall of 2008, and other cooperative projects with Harvard, Yonsei, and Seoul National Universities.

Korea Studies Celebration on November 20, 2006
Mr. Ick-Whan Lee
Madame Sochon, Young Hi Park
UW President Mark Emmert
President of Korea Times-Seattle, Mr. Yeo Chun Yoon

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North Korean Nuclear Politics: Constructing a New Northeast Asian Order in the Twenty-First Century

June 4-5, 2009

The Center for Korea Studies is hosting a conference on North Korean Nuclear Politics on June 4-5, 2009, bringing scholars and academics from around the world to discuss this issue.
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