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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 for Korea Studies Grant

The Center for Korea Studies has received a five-year grant from the Academy of Korea 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 Asian Library, publication projects with the University of Washington Press, the Liberation Space Conference on modern Korean literature in the fall of 2008, and other coopertive 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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Rae-Sook Han Kayagum Concert

The Center for Korea Studies co-sponsored a kayagum concert by Rae-Sook Han on May 24th, 2008. Han performed an impressive program of Korean and Western classical music and contemporary arrangements to an audience of more than sixty people at the Montlake Community Center in Seattle. Ms. Han is a nationally recognized kayagum player in South Korea and has performed in concerts in Japan and the United States.


2008 Teachers' Conference on Korea Studies

The Center held the second annual Teachers' Conference on Korea Studies on May 17. Ms. Mary Conner and Dr. Mark Peterson gave talks on Korean history, culture and society and ways of integrating Korean topics into primary and secondary classrooms. Teachers came from across the Puget Sound region to participate. Many found the conference proceedings to be of special importance because of the large numbers of Korean-American students in many school districts of Western Washington. The conference is now well on its way to becoming an established event in the Washington Korea Studies and educational community. We are all looking forward to next years' program.


Center for Korea Studies Colloquia Series

Andrew Kim from Korea University.
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Visiting Scholar Program 2007- 2008

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Liberation Space Conference 2008
October 30th- November 1st

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Paper proposals (200 words or so) from all participants. Participants will be expected to write a paper intented for discussion, revision, and eventual publication. The proposal should be an abstract of what you intend to do.