On Friday April 5th, the Center for Korea Studies welcomed students, staff, faculty, and community members to celebrate the generous giving of Madame Nam Chu Koh (Yang). Madame Koh began her relationship with CKS during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, the Center was undertaking serious fundraising to help keep our doors

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 Thursday, March 14, 2024, the Center for Korea Studies and Korea University’s Outreach Center for Korean Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies signed a memorandum of understanding. The MOU outlines a three-year partnership under which CKS and OCKS  will work together on various collaborative efforts including the exchange of research materials, supporting interested students in

Join the Center for Korea Studies on Thursday, April 18 from 4:30 to 6pm in the Allen Auditorium as we welcome Professor Andre Schmid to discuss his latest monograph, North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965. When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North 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

Interested in interning or working in Washington, DC? Want to work in a field related to Korea or East Asia? Curious about the DC thinktank scene? Join Korea Economic Institute Vice President Mark Tokola, Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs Dr. Clint Work, and KEI Operations Manager Mai Pressley on Wednesday, March 27 from 1-2:30pm

Join the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) and the Center for Korea Studies (CKS) on Thursday, March 28, from 6-8:30pm PT in Thomson Hall 101 for a screening of CHOSEN (2022) and a Q&A session with the director, Joseph Juhn. This event is free and open to the public. To reserve your ticket, please visit our Ticketleap

At the historic Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David in August of 2023, US President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida released a set of joint statements committing to reenergize existing trilateral mechanisms and establish new and more robust forms of trilateral cooperation across a range of areas

On February 15, 2024, UW News featured an article covering TEAL’s grand re-opening this upcoming Wednesday, February 21. The article features interviews with interim director and Korean Studies librarian Hyokyoung Yi, dean of UW Libraries Simon Neame, and History PhD student Chad Westra. Read the full article here. As a reminder, everyone is welcome to

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,