The Center for Korea Studies at the University of Washington notes with sadness the passing of the late State Senator Paull Shin on April 12, 2021. Sen. Shin received a doctorate in Korean History from the University of Washington in 1980 with a dissertation about Koreans in the Chientao Region of China. The first Korean-American

The Center for Korea Studies will be hosting Dr. Olga Fedorenko (Seoul National University, Anthropology) on April 8, 2021 at 5p.m. PST on Zoom as part of this year’s colloquia series. The title of Dr. Fedorenko’s discussion will be “Sharing Suits and Stories in Seoul: Sharing Economy and its Socialites at a Used Clothing Startup

This past February 12, visiting scholars Professor Jakyung Kwon (Gangneung-Wonju National University) and Mr. Lee (Ministry of Defense, South Korea) did a presentation about Seollal for students from the OneWorld Now! school here in Seattle. Seollal, which began on February 12, is the Korean Lunar New Year, and is a celebration which marks the first

The CKS is very happy to share that a new endowment has been created for graduate students of the Korea Studies Program. The Nam Chu (Yang) Koh Endowment amounts to $315,240 and will be used to provide funding for PhD students in Korea Studies. Also, the local Korean communities of Seattle and surrounding areas have

From 1966 through 1981, the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. Returned Peace Corps volunteers and their colleagues share what it was like to live and work in South Korea during that time in the recently published Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of

The Center for Korea Studies, in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle, will be hosting this year’s Korean Peninsula Forum on November 10 (on Zoom). Title of this year’s forum: “North Korean Nuclear Issues following the US Presidential Election: Stalemate, Progress or Escalation?” Guest speaker: Prof. Chaesong Chun, Seoul

Hajin Jun, the James B. Palais Assistant Professor of Korean History in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History at the University of Washington, received a Royalty Research Award from the UW. The Royalty Research Fund (RRF) is a competitive awards program that provides research support to University of Washington faculty.

  Clark W. Sorensen, professor and chair of the Korea Studies Program, and inaugural director of the Center for Korea Studies, has announced that he will retire at the end of spring quarter, 2020. Professor Sorensen came to the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in 1989, and became Korea Program

Adding fire to the already tense relationship on the Korean peninsula, on June 16, North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liason in the border town of Kaesong that was used for inter-Korean cooperation. What does this mean for the future prospects of peace on the Korean peninsula in the near future? The CKS will be