Organized by Acting Assistant Professor and Interim Chair of the Korea Program, Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Low Birth and Aging Society in Korea and Japan: What Kind of “Crisis?” addresses some of the most pressing issues in East Asia and the world at-large. Professor Arai will chair the panel and contribute a paper to the greater

Clark W. Sorensen Retires Clark W. Sorensen, professor, chair of the Korea Studies Program, and inaugural director of the Center for Korea Studies, has concluded his tenure with the University of Washington, fully retiring as of July 1, 2023. Clark W. Sorensen, professor and chair of the Korea Studies Program, and inaugural director of the

UW-CKS congratulates Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Jang Wook Huh, on his receipt of a 2023 ACLS Fellowship. Professor Huh’s award will support the completion of his project, “Afro-Korean” Encounters: The Literary Intersections of Black Liberation Struggles in the US and Anticolonial Movements in Korea, 1910-1953. Please see the details of Professor Huh’s forthcoming