The newly developed Online Database of English Translations of Korean Literature is now open to the public. Developed over three years (2022-2025), it is currently the most user-friendly, extensive, and accurate database of English translations of Korean literature with nearly 4,000 entries. Principle Investigators for this project Heekyoung Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages

Join us on Friday, May 23 at 3:30 PM for this talk by Dr. Ko, Byoung Wook. Dr. Ko is the former Deputy President of the Maritime Policy Research Department of the Korea Maritime Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Korea University. His main research interests are econometrics-based analysis on markets, industrial policy and

The Center for Korean Studies is proud to sponsor the 51st Seattle International Film Festival We are specifically sponsoring Hong Sang-soo’s newest film, By the Stream Use code UWKOREA51 for $3 off ‘Adult’ tickets for any film at siff.net – must be purchased online. Tell your friends! Additional Films Browse this list of Korean and Korean diaspora

Prof. James Kim of Political Science on South Korean youth’s attitude to nuclear weapons in and article which was published by CSIS. Why Young South Koreans Are Cooling on the Bomb Published April 28, 2025 While many older South Koreans support nuclear armament, younger generations, the ones who will actually live with the consequences, do

Join us on Monday, May 12 3:30 – 5PM in the Communications building (CMU) room 202 for a special panel presentation. What lessons can be learned from the past, when movie theaters were filled with cinephiles and VHS technology created an alternative cultural space? Underscoring the margins of cinema and media studies, three scholars discuss

THIS WEDNESDAY:  April 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM Allen Auditorium Voices (2024) offers a powerful account of the Jeju 4.3 Incident, focusing on the narratives of the women who endured its horrors. It presents a harrowing depiction of the unique burden these women carried, not only as victims of state-sanctioned violence but also as survivors of

Join the UWCKS on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Thomson Hall 317, Seattle campus, for a talk by Ji-Eun Lee, Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. The talk, held in celebration of author Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, will introduce the

On March 6, 2025 Professor Heekyoung Cho delivered a talk at the Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) on the purpose and status of a new database in developed since 2022. This online searchable database is the most extensive database to date of English translations of Korean literature. The database is a project that has been

Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan January/February 2025, Foreign Affairs (Article published on January 7, 2025) As South Korea underwent rapid industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional social ties—what Ha and others call neo-familism—became more rather than less important, contrary to what classic modernization theory would have predicted…. Book Author: Yong-Chool Ha, University of Washington

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)