Republic of Korea-U.S. Relations at the Crossroads: Changes and Continuity under Trump Administration Join us on October 22, 2025 for the 12th Korean Peninsula Forum. This year’s topic is ‘South Korea-U.S. relations at the Crossroads: Changes and Continuity under Trump Administration’.  There will be two sessions the first of which is centered on security relations

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 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

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