Participants of the 2020-2021 GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Program have been selected and started research on their projects. These six outstanding students will produce a research paper and present their research at the GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Conference held at IU in March 2021. Congratulations to all of the participants!
IKS hosted the second annual GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Conference online with the George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies on May 13, 2020. While we couldn’t meet in person, it was a great opportunity for the students to share their research. Five students from IU and five students from GW worked with faculty throughout the… Read more »
IKS held the third annual Korean Speech Contest on March 7th. 23 students participated. Winners were chosen from Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels. IU K-pop dance group “Unison” also performed at the event. Congratulations to all the participants and winners: Beginner 1st Place: Fatin Rahim 2nd Place: Daniela Gaspar 3rd Place: Emma Liu Intermediate 1st… Read more »
Indiana University’s Institute for Korean Studies and IU Cinema presented two film Korean film series from February 1 – 10, 2020. The first, “Recent Coming of Age Films by South Korean Women Directors,” featured films from two Korean women directors: Yim Soon-rye and Bora Kim. The two films in this series, Little Forest and House of Hummingbird featured woman… Read more »
The award ceremony for the 2019 Korean Literature Essay Contest based on Han Kang’s The Vegetarian was held on November 9, 2019, at 10:00 am in the Korea Conference Room. Dr. Susan Hwang, one of the judges, gave feedback to the participants via videoconference. You can read the winning essays here. 1st Prize: MacBook Pro Mikayla George: “Contemporary… Read more »
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Korean Literature Essay Contest: 1st Prize: MacBook Pro Mikayla George: “Contemporary Visions of the New Woman in Korean Literature” 2nd Prize: iPad Air Veronica Coffey – “The Power of Dehumanization” 3rd Prize: Apple Airpods Ria Talukder – ” Veganism over Humanity: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the Flaws in our… Read more »
On October 25th, the Institute for Korean Studies held its fourth annual conference, entitled “After the Miracle: The Present and Future of Korea’s Economy and Society.” The conference was co-organized with the Korea Economic Institute of America, and was made possible with funding from the Dr. Lee Se Ung Distinguished Lecture Series on Korean Global… Read more »
Participants of the 2019-2020 GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Program have been selected and started research on their projects. These five outstanding students will produce a research paper and present their research at the GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Conference held at IU in March 2020. Congratulations to all of the participants!
Seung-kyung Kim presented this year’s Samuel C. Chu Memorial Lecture for the History Department at Ohio State University. Her lecture was titled: “South Korean Millennials’ Military Service and Neoliberal Calculations.” Mandatory military service has been an inescapable fact of life for young men in South Korea from the time of the Korean War until the present. It… Read more »
Professors from across the US and Korea gathered on August 7, 2019, to participate in a workshop “Long Work Hours in South Korea and Beyond” hosted by the Institute for Korean Studies. The goal of this workshop was to bring together a diverse set of scholars who study long work hours in South Korea in order… Read more »