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Jackson School undergraduate student research in focus | UW

February 8, 2018

Still from Korean drama "Legend of the Blue Sea." Photo credit: Wikipedia
Still from Korean drama "Legend of the Blue Sea." Photo credit: Wikipedia

How is the second-largest Korean-language collection in the United States connected to Korean television dramas? Jackson School undergraduate Kristy Kwon’s journey started from the UW’s East Asia library as she examined the question of “K-dramas” portrayal of women’s roles in Korean society, leading eventually to a visit to the country that she left when she was six years old.

As Kwon gets ready to defend her thesis in spring 2018, her research has found focus on UW’s homepage as an instance of the student-led research that is carried out in Jackson School.

 

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