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 Friday, May 23 at 3:30 PM for this talk by Dr. Ko, Byoung Wook. Dr. Ko is the former Deputy President of the Maritime Policy Research Department of the Korea Maritime Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Korea University. His main research interests are econometrics-based analysis on markets, industrial policy and

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

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,

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

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,

On Wednesday, January 17, 2024, Professors Heekyoung Cho and Ungsan Kim were awarded individual Simpson Center Fellowships. Professor Cho is the recipient of a Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for her project entitled, Building an Online Translation Database of Korean Literature. Professor Kim was awarded a Society of Scholars Fellowship for his project entitled, Future Imperfect: Crisis,

The Origins of the South Korean Film Renaissance Lingnan University & University of Washington Joint Film Studies Conference November 2-4, 2023, Hong Kong Lingnan University Keynote Speakers KIM Hong Joon (Director, Korean Film Archive) & Industry Expert (TBA) When Park Chan-wook’s debut feature The Moon Is… the Sun’s Dream was released in the spring of

UW-CKS congratulates Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Jang Wook Huh, on his receipt of the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize. The Constance M. Rourke Prize is awarded annually to the best article published in American Quarterly that was written by a current member of the American Studies Association. Professor’s Huh’s piece, “The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: