Join the UWCKS on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM for a talk by Ji-Eun Lee, Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. The talk, held in celebration of author Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, will introduce the author and highlight some of her

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)

The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various tracks of study, including China, Korea,

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

On December 2, join us for a talk with Benjamin M. Han of the University of Georgia. Since the launch of Netflix in South Korea in 2016, the global streaming platform has transformed the Korean media industry in terms of financing, content, and production culture. While Netflix has been celebrated as a patron of creativity,

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

On August 16, 2024, Interim Associate Director of the Center for Korea Studies, Ian Oates, will end his time at the University of Washington. Ian’s departure marks a sizable shift in staffing at CKS. Rather than hiring a specific Associate Director, JSIS will be implementing new staffing structures to support the Center with a diversified