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

CKS Director Yong-Chool Ha was quoted by The Kyiv Independent on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in an article titled, “Putin lands in North Korea looking for support, weapons, validation.” Ha provided insights regarding the nature of Putin’s visit to Pyongyang in relation the Kim regime’s continued munitions shipments for Russian use in its invasion of

History Ph.D. student Brian Park has received a 2024 Fulbright Fellowship. The U.S. scholarship program is the largest international exchange opportunity in the country for students to pursue graduate study, advanced research, and teaching. During his Fellowship, Brian will take his research to Japan where he will work on his dissertation project which investigates the

Join our friends at Experience Education for an afternoon of artistic excellence on Friday, May 30 from 2-5pm in the Tateuchi East Asia Library. Come enjoy an incredible artist talk, exhibition and live painting with visiting Korean artist, Kim Bong Jun, founder of the museum of mythology in Korea, as well as a delightful spread