Please join the Center for Korea Studies for a special colloquium with Dredge Byung’chu Kang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. The aesthetics of K-Pop flower boy masculinity, the narratives of K-Drama cross-gender characters, and imagined Korean lesbianism have refashioned contemporary tom (Thai butch lesbian) gender presentation, partnership patterns, and sexual roles.

Please join the Center for Korea Studies for a special colloquium with Peter Banseok Kwon, Associate Professor of Korean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Cornerstone of the Nation (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024) is the first historical account of the complex alliance of military and civilian forces that catapulted South Korea’s conjoined militarization and

Join CKS on Wednesday, May 29 from 4:30-6pm in Thomson Hall room 317 for the launch of Professor Ha Yong-Chool’s latest monograph, Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea. This event will be hosted in a book talk format moderated by Professor Jonathan Warren and discussed by Professor Robert Pekkanen. Click here to register or

The Center for Korea Studies welcomes Professor Hyun Ok Park (York University) to discuss her new work, The Sewŏl Square: Sublimation, Hatred, and Singularity. The colloquium will take place on Thursday, April 20, from 3:30-5:30pm in Thomson Hall 317. Please visit our Eventbrite page to register or follow the QR code below: The repressed desire to name “the real

Professor Eleana Kim will join CKS on Monday, November 14 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm PT in Thomson Hall room 317 to discuss her recently published ethnography, Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ. Her book addresses the ecologies of the South Korean borderlands in areas adjacent to the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Join us on March 5, 2019 at 3:30 PM in CMU 202. Free and open to the public. President Trump and Korean Workers’ Party Chair Kim Jong Un met from February 27-28, 2019. Hear Jackson School East Asia specialists’ analysis of what went on and the implications of this meeting. Panelists include: Yong Chool Ha,

NOV. 29th, 2017, KANE HALL WALKER-AMES ROOM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON The 4th Annual Korean Peninsula Forum, hosted by the UW Center for Korea Studies, featured special guest Adam Mount, a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, whose work covers U.S. nuclear strategy and force structure, global nuclear politics, deterrence, and North Korea. Previously,

Until the Mumun Pottery Period (ca. 1500-100 B.C.), Korean society was primarily organized as small egalitarian groups with no centralized political system. This was the pattern for millennia, persisting until a suite of important changes occurred in several regions of the peninsula. This presentation examines the archaeological evidence from one such region—the Jinju area in

Two East Asia faculty members are releasing a new book titled Spaces of Possibility; In, Between, and beyond Korea and Japan. Clark Sorensen, who is a Professor and Director of the Center for Korean Studies, and Andrea Gervurtz Arai who is a Lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies, worked together to create Spaces of Possibility, which is

Thursday, November 10th, 5:30 – 8:30 PM LECTURE IN LAW 133 — RECEPTION IN LAW 115, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON In many ways, the North Korean regime is unstable. Its people suffer from poverty and starvation, while the regime is embarrassed by its inferiority to its South Korean neighbor in terms of economics, international relations, and