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)

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

Winter registration is fast approaching! Join Center for Korea Studies faculty members this winter for a diverse range of coursework. JSIS A 466/JSIS A 566/POL S 480/POL S 580: Comparative Politics and Korea Studies Instructor: Yong-Chool Ha Date/time: Tuesdays and Thursdays | 2:30-4:20 p.m. Credits: 5 | SLN: 16273/16277/19640/19656 Course Description Approaches Korean politics, political

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

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

Jackson School Professor and CKS Director Yong-Chool Ha has recently published the book “Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea” (University of Washington Press, 2024). Within the book, Ha — the director for the Center for Korea Studies at the University of Washington — examines the social consequences of late industrialization in South Korea.

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

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,