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Category Archives: Academia
Honorifics at the KCC
15-Aug-08
Lucien Brown has been leading the beginners' Korean Language class at the KCC with infinite patience and good humour for the past eight weeks. Some of us are still struggling with telling the time in Korean but we still come back for more.
We’ll be getting an extra dose of our favourite 선생님 next week: he will be lecturing at the KCC on Tuesday evening on the subject of Korean Honorifics – a topic which justifies its own entry in wikipedia.
Here's his own introduction to his talk
In this lecture, after describing the linguistic forms of Korean honorifics, I investigate two patterns of honorifics use in modern Korean society (normative use and strategic use).
"Honorifics" are linguistic resources that speakers use to express ...
BAKS 2008 conference agenda announced
07-Aug-08
A reminder of the upcoming BAKS conference, The Koreas at sixty: Looking Forward / Looking Back, to be held in Cambrige 8-10 September. Full details of the cost, and how to book, are on the BAKS website here. You don't need to be a BAKS member to come along. The one in Sheffield two years ago was both fun and informative
Here is the provisional agenda:
Monday, September 8, 2008
15.00 to 17.30: Arrival and Registration
18.00: Drinks reception
19.00 for 19.30: Dinner
21.00: Keynote Speech, Professor Meredith Jung-en Woo, University of Virginia. Title: "Korea's Free Trade: The Highest Stage of Industrial Policy"
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
9.00 to 10.30: Panel One, Plenary: Political and Security Developments on the Korean Peninsula
Ambassador Chun Yung-Woo *, ROK Ambassador to the ...
Linguistics conference at SOAS
05-Aug-08
A bargain three-day conference begins at SOAS this Thursday.
Full details here.
A bit beyond me I'm afraid. I'm still struggling with my counting words.
James Scarth Gale Translation Prize
06-Jul-08
The Centre for the Study of Korea (CSK) at the University of Toronto hosts the annual James Scarth Gale translation prize for non-fiction pieces of writing on Korea. The top prize is awarded a sum of $2,500.
The objective of the prize is to promote, and make public, materials useful for teachers of undergraduate courses on modern Korea. Possible translations include academic essays, series of newspaper articles, magazine features, or original archival sources, to name just a few.
Submissions for this year's competition must be received at the CSK by September 1, 2008.
For more information see the CSK website at www.utoronto.ca/csk, where you can also find last year's winner, Memories of a Zainichi Korean Childhood by Kang Sangjung, translated by Robin Fletcher.
Grandpa as salesman
26-Jun-08
The Image of the Elderly in British and Korean Contemporary Advertising
Lecture by Dr. Hyunsun Yoon
Korean Cultural Centre, 24th June 2008
Report by Saharial, with photo by Matthew Jackson
This informative lecture by Dr. Hyunsun Yoon examined the way the elderly are represented in both British and Korean advertising.
A growing demographic, the elderly population is regarded with a great difference between the two cultures, something demonstrated well when comparing various advertising clips. Confucian values of family, filial duty and respect for the elderly provide the basis for the Korean perception, the elderly portrayed as helpful, doing gentle activities, imparting wisdom and embodying the feeling of ‘Han’. ‘Han’ is a concept of wistfulness, nostalgia and reminiscence, often related to the unique political situation in ...
Bargains at SOAS publishing workshop
21-Jun-08
It’s always worth turning up to an event when you know that book publishers are present. Brill, Saffron and Global Oriental were all present at the SOAS Korean publishing workshop on Monday. With Saffron selling their catalogue at half price on the night, and Global Oriental discounting everything to £20 (including the collected BAKS papers, list price £95), there were plenty of bargains to be had, and I managed to cancel a few items off my Amazon wishlist as well as purchase a couple of books I headn’t been tracking.
The event was partly to celebrate the launch of the Selected Writings of Han Yongun (above right), which was done in style, with plenteous wine and nibbles plus a traditional dance ...
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES
2008 Biennial Conference
‘The Koreas at 60: Looking Back, Looking Forward’
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
The Association will host its biennial conference at Clare College, the University of Cambridge from Monday 8 September to Wednesday 10 September.
The Keynote Speaker on the evening of 8 September will be Prof. Meredith Jung-En Woo, Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, USA. There will be a plenary panel of diplomats and scholars on the first day to discuss current affairs on the Korean peninsula, followed by a series of papers on topics of historical and contemporary interest to be given by British and international scholars. The Conference will begin with the Reception at 6:00PM on Monday, and conclude at ...
Please find below the details of a Korean Studies Publishing in Europe Workshop and book launch taking place on Monday 16 June 2008.
The event will take place at SOAS in the Khalili Lecture theatre at 1pm. It coincides with the publication of the "Selected Writings of Han Yong-un" by Global Oriental, stalwarts of Korean Studies publishing, a representative of whom will be speaking at the conference. Also represented will be Saffron Books - a niche publisher with a Korean specialism - and Brill, who publish the Korea Yearbook among other things. There's a review of one of Saffron's publications coming very soon on LKL, just as soon as I can check a fact.
Click on the below for a full-size version ...
Notice of this weeks Korea Discussion Group Meeting at Chatham House
Korea Discussion Group
Thursday 12 June 2008
1.15-2.30
Lunch – 12.45 (£10)
Prospects for Korea’s Energy Diplomacy
SPEAKER: DR Jae-Seung LEE, Associate Dean and Associate Professor at Korea University
CHAIR: DR JIM HOARE, Chargé d'Affaires, British Embassy in Pyongyang, DPRK (2001-2003)
Dr Lee is currently an Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the division of International Studies at Korea University. Before joining the University, he served as professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He received Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. As a scholar of international political economy, Dr Lee has published a number of books and articles regarding Korea, East Asia and Europe. His ...
Im Sang Soo: Uncut
04-Jun-08
As part of the Tiger Asian film festival Im Sang Soo, director of socio-political films ‘The President’s Last Bang’, ‘A Good Lawyer’s Wife’ and ‘The Old Garden’, held a Q&A session on 30th May 2008 at the Korean Cultural Centre in London. There was a small but select feel to the gathering that took place in the multipurpose hall. It was an illuminating event, even for those who had neither seen nor heard of the films prior to this event – of which there were more than a few.
Questions and answers were translated on the spot by Seh Hyun Rho to whom we extend our thanks and also to the Korean Cultural Centre for hosting the event.
The following is a ...
There was no hope of applying the Chatham House rule at yesterday's talk by HE Dr Jun Kwang-woo, chairman of Korea's Financial Services Commission. With two TV cameras and numerous digital recorders on show, this meeting was firmly on the record.
Reflecting the more formal nature of this meeting, Dr Jun spoke from a prepared text, though there was also a generous amount of time afterwards for Dr Jun to take questions from the floor.
It was a whistle-stop tour for Dr Jun. Earlier in the week he had been at the IOSCO meeting in Paris, where he was appointed Chair of IOSCO's regional committee for Asia. He was only in London for the day and was heading back to Seoul immediately ...
A regular feature of the summer evenings is the SOAS world music summer school.
Two years ago I went along to the Samulnori summer school run by the excellent Dulsori and had a ball. Last year, LKL woman of the year 2006 Rowan Pease went along with her daughter and had a whale of a time. This year it's your turn.
Korean Samulnori Percussion
Dulsori Ensemble
Date: 7 July 2008, Time: 6:00 PM
Finishes: 11 July 2008, Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Type of Event: Summer School
Series: Summer Music School Timetable
Course Dates: 07-11 July, Mon-Fri 6-8pm
Course Fee: £75 (concs £55)
Samulnori is the contemporary form of a rural percussion tradition stretching back into antiquity. Today, Samulnori is the most popular style in the Korean traditional ...
Dr Jun Kwang Woo, the Chairman of the Korean Financial Services Commission, is in Paris and London this week for a range of meetings, including the UK finance minister and the FSA.
He will also be speaking to the Korea Discussion Group at Chatham House on Friday afternoon at 4pm. His subject is Korea's responses to challenges from the global financial markets. The gathering will be chaired by Dr John Llewellyn, Senior Economic Policy Advisor at Lehman Brothers. Interested parties can join the discussion group by pre-registering (details at the bottom of this article). Further background on Dr Jun’s talk:
Developments in international financial markets have brought opportunities for faster growth and expansion. At the same time, developments also mean that the ...
Sunset for the Sunshine Policy?
20-May-08
The inaugural Global Korea Lecture will be held on Wednesday 28 May at the KCC at 6:30pm
The lecture will be on the subject: South and North Korea : Sunset for the Sunshine Policy? and will be given by 'Britain's leading Korea watcher' Aidan Foster-Carter. Dr. Kwang Ho Chun will chair.
Aidan Foster-Carter has followed Korean Affairs since 1968, starting (embarrassingly) as a juvenile fan of Kim Il-sung. Educated at Eton, Oxford and Hull, he taught sociology at Universities in Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971-93. An early general interest in developing nations developed into a particular obsession with Korea. Since 1993 he has been a full time Korea analyst and consultant: writing, lecturing, and broadcasting for academic, business ...
Not to be confused with the SOAS / AKS post-graduate bursary. That particular AKS is the Academy of Korean Studies. This post is about the Anglo-Korean Society's bursary, administered by BAKS. Having sorted out that little confusion, read on...
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies is offering a single £500 bursary on a competitive basis to post-graduate students.
The Anglo-Korean Society was founded in 1956 to foster friendship between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea. By providing opportunities for contacts between British nationals and Koreans residing in or visiting Britain, the Society seeks to bring together everyone in the UK who has an interest in Korean matters, and to act as a forum for ...
SOAS - AKS Postgraduate Bursary
15-Apr-08
SOAS is pleased to announce a second postgraduate Korean Studies scholarship for the academic year 2008-9. In addition to the previously announced Sochon Foundation Scholarship, SOAS will also be offering, in conjunction with the Academy of Korean Studies, the AKS Postgraduate Bursary. The bursary is worth £4,090 and can only be used to pay for tuition fees. The deadline for applications is May 30. For more information and application forms please see the website.
Note - this bursary is not to be confused with the £500 post-graduate bursary offered by the other AKS, the Anglo-Korean Society.
Links
Details of bursary on SOAS website
Sochon Foundation Scholarship at SOAS
13-Apr-08
Recently received from SOAS.
The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London is pleased to announce a new scholarship for Korean Studies. The Sochon Foundation Scholarship is open to students wishing to study for a Korea-related degree at postgraduate level, commencing in the coming academic year (2008-9). For more details please see this web page.
AKSE Conference 2009: Call for papers
13-Apr-08
24th AKSE CONFERENCE
17—21 June 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS AND FIRST NOTICE
The Centre for Korean Studies, Leiden University, will host the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe from 17-21 June, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Submissions in all areas of Korean Studies are welcome. Proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2008.
Full details in the attached pdf.
Links
Call for papers and conference notice
Park Cheol-hee at Chatham House
11-Feb-08
The next Korea Discussion Group talk, on 19 February, will be 'Korean Foreign Policy Initiatives under the New Presidency' by Dr. Park Cheol Hee.Jim Hoare will be chairing. The meeting is 1-2pm with lunch 12:30-1:00 (£10 charge)
Dr. Park is currently associate professor at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. Before moving to SNU, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) under the Korean Foreign Ministry. Between 1999 and 2002, he taught Japanese politics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan, as an associate professor. Professor Park graduated from Seoul National University, where he got BA and MA and obtained his ...
Harvard Online: The Two Koreas
27-Jan-08
Beginning January 31, students living anywhere in the world can examine key historical forces that have created and shaped the two Koreas before, during, and after the actual partition of the country in 1945 in a new Harvard Extension School online course, HIST E-1814 The Two Koreas.
Harvard's Carter J. Eckert, PhD, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, offers students a broad historical context in which to understand the contemporary political division on the Korean peninsula.
Topics include nascent nation-building efforts between 1876 and 1910, the impact of Japanese colonialism and the cold war, and North/South development and interaction after 1948. The course interweaves political, socioeconomic, and cultural themes within a historical framework centered on nation-building while also highlighting a number ...
In Cambridge and London this week.
First, Tuesday, 29th January, 2008 at 5pm in the Common Room, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.
The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies presents an East Asia Institute seminar:
Paradise Lost: From Chollima Speed to Slow Motion Famine How North Korea Got Where it is Today
To be given by:
Mr Paul French
Access Asia, Shanghai
From one of the worlds 20 largest economies in 1975 to an estimated two million dead from famine twenty years later and then to the worlds most isolated and little understood nuclear power. How did North Korea manage to so spectacularly mismanage its economy, manage its people, seal its borders and get the bomb? Paul French, the author ...
ANGLO-KOREAN SOCIETY
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES
The AKS and BAKS are pleased to announce the Anglo-Korean Society Post-Graduate Bursary Programme. A single £500 bursary is being offered on a competitive basis to taught and research post-graduate students. The submission date for all applications will be 1 April, 2008.
The programme will be administered by the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies on behalf of the Anglo-Korean Society.
Information about the bursary and application forms may be obtained from the Chair of the BAKS Bursary Committee, Prof. James H. Grayson, or from the BAKS website at www.baks.org.uk which will be put up shortly. Prof. Grayson's contact details are:
Prof. James H. Grayson, Chair
BAKS Bursary Committee
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 ...
The panel and attendance list of the 8th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights & Refugees was a who’s who of North Korean experts and Koreanists in general ((The Chatham House Rule was invoked, and a strict reading of that implies that I can’t say who was in the audience, but at least the speakers are a matter of public record)). As expected, there was no representation from the DPRK embassy. Given that more than one panellist characterised past conferences as “people getting together to bash North Korea and feeling better afterwards” that was hardly surprising. But this conference was billed as exploring new approaches, so maybe a different attitude might have been fondly hoped-for this year. Instead, the ...
Class struggles
20-Jan-08
Those Koreanists who looked at the timing of the talk by Loren Goldner and decided to give it a miss were probably well advised. 6pm on a Saturday night is not the best time to pull in the punters. But inside the rather pokey Kings Cross bookshop it was standing room only. Those who turned up early and got one of the rickety seats were wondering whether it was safer and more comfortable to join the latecomers standing. The audience was made up of the alternative clientele which I assume frequents this alternative bookshop. Shaggy beards and unkempt pony-tails predominated among the men, while strangely the women were much better turned out. Judging by the questions afterwards, the interests of ...
