On Friday, March 22, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm ET, CKS Director Yong-Chool Ha will give a book talk at George Washington University’s Institute for Korea Studies discussing his latest publication, Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea. Those note located in the D.C. area are invited to join the talk online. Please click here

Interested in interning or working in Washington, DC? Want to work in a field related to Korea or East Asia? Curious about the DC thinktank scene? Join Korea Economic Institute Vice President Mark Tokola, Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs Dr. Clint Work, and KEI Operations Manager Mai Pressley on Wednesday, March 27 from 1-2:30pm

Join the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) and the Center for Korea Studies (CKS) on Thursday, March 28, from 6-8:30pm PT in Thomson Hall 101 for a screening of CHOSEN (2022) and a Q&A session with the director, Joseph Juhn. This event is free and open to the public. To reserve your ticket, please visit our Ticketleap

At the historic Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David in August of 2023, US President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida released a set of joint statements committing to reenergize existing trilateral mechanisms and establish new and more robust forms of trilateral cooperation across a range of areas

On February 15, 2024, UW News featured an article covering TEAL’s grand re-opening this upcoming Wednesday, February 21. The article features interviews with interim director and Korean Studies librarian Hyokyoung Yi, dean of UW Libraries Simon Neame, and History PhD student Chad Westra. Read the full article here. As a reminder, everyone is welcome to

The current issue of the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) includes an article about relay translation, specifically the translation of Russian texts into Korean via Japanese translations, based predominantly on work by Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, Heekyoung Cho. The article is premised on research within Professor Cho’s book,

Wednesday, Mar, 13, 2024, 03:30 – 5:30 p.m. Allen Auditorium Click here to register Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW China Studies Program, and the East Asia Center for “Screening Queer Hong Kong,” a screening of “Always My Child” (Hong Kong, 2011, 24 mins) and

Spring registration is less than a month away! Join Center for Korea Studies faculty a diverse range of coursework.   JSIS A 213: The Korean Peninsula and World Politics Instructor: Yong-Chool Ha Date and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-4:20 Location: CDH 105 Credits: 5 SLN: 15865 Course Description Introduces Korean politics, economics, society, and international

On Wednesday, January 17, 2024, Professors Heekyoung Cho and Ungsan Kim were awarded individual Simpson Center Fellowships. Professor Cho is the recipient of a Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for her project entitled, Building an Online Translation Database of Korean Literature. Professor Kim was awarded a Society of Scholars Fellowship for his project entitled, Future Imperfect: Crisis,

Join the Center for Korea Studies and the Taiwan Studies Program for a special lecture by Y.T. Shim Visiting Professor Dr. Keun Lee (Seoul National University) on Monday, February 12 at 3:30 in HUB 337. Based on a working paper, Dr. Lee’s talk will analyze China’s complicated geopolitical position within global semiconductor supply chains and