Join us for a special event screening of four shorts plus conversation with filmmaker Soyoung Kim on Thursday, February 13, 2025.  We will see four short films: Heart of Snow: Afterlife (눈의 마음: 이후, 2018) SFdrome: Ju Sejuk (SFdrome: 주세죽, 2018) Harvesting the Light: The Graves of Diaspora (디아스포라의 묘: 화광, 2021) Ana Inn: Harvesting Light (아나객잔: 화광, 2021)

The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various tracks of study, including China, Korea,

A surprising political incident unfolded in South Korea, catching both its citizens and the global community off guard. At 11 p.m. on December 3, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law. In response, the Korean National Assembly, where the opposition party holds a majority, unanimously voted to block the decree, with 190 out of 300

On December 2, join us for a talk with Benjamin M. Han of the University of Georgia. Since the launch of Netflix in South Korea in 2016, the global streaming platform has transformed the Korean media industry in terms of financing, content, and production culture. While Netflix has been celebrated as a patron of creativity,

South Korea and the U.S. have invested more than 70 years in the forging of a unifying alliance which has come to define the geopolitics of Asia. However, regional environments have dramatically shifted in recent years with the advancement of North Korea’s nuclear program and their growing military alliance with Russia. How this impacts the