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 »
IKS invites all undergraduate students at Indiana University to participate in the first annual Korean Literature Essay Contest. Students must submit a 1,000-1,250 word essay in English on the topic of The Vegetarian by Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith). The essay should be original, thought provoking, and well argued. Four prizes will be awarded, including the grand… Read more »
Application Deadline: September 15, 2019 The Institutes for Korean Studies at the George Washington University and Indiana University Bloomington invite students to apply for the annual GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Program. We are seeking to select students who are interested in conducting research about Korea. All students receive mentoring from faculty at the Institute for Korean… Read more »
Five students from Indiana University traveled to Washington D.C. to present papers based on their original research at the First Annual GW-IU Undergraduate Research Exchange Program Conference. The Students and their presentations were: Emily Gibson (senior) “North Korean Perspectives on Democracy, Human Rights and Capitalism: The State vs. Migrants” Margaret Suh (senior) “South Korea’s Energy… Read more »
IU undergraduate student Shuyao Wang took the first place prize in the intermediate level at the First Midwest Korean Speech Contest held at Northwestern University on April 13, 2019. Her speech was entitled “Korean Education Culture.” She received a prize which included a scholarship to study Korean at Kyunghee University or Sungkyunkwan University and $800… Read more »
IKS held its Korean Speech Contest on March 2nd. fourteen students participated. Winners were chosen from Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels. Congratulations to all the participants and winners: Beginner 1st Place: Veronica Coffey 2nd Place: Jude Rucker 3rd Place: Hou Nan Sin Intermediate 1st Place: Shuyao Wang 2nd Place: Katharine Lawrence 3rd Place: Toby Huter… Read more »
Indiana University’s Institute for Korean Studies presented three films from one of South Korea’s most interesting and successful commercial film directors, Ryoo Seung-wan. Influenced by Hong Kong action films from the 1970s, his thrilling films feature fast-paced plots and well-choreographed action scenes. His 2015 film, Veteran, sold more than 13 million tickets and is the fourth all-time… Read more »
Participants of the first 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 travel to George Washington University for a conference in April 2019 to present their research alongside students of GW. Congratulations to all of the participants!
Keith Seidel, Assistant Director of the Institute for Korean Studies, won second prize in the 2018 Global Korean Literature Translation Award competition for his translation of the short story, Bukchon, by Lee Hye-kyung. The GKL Award was established under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to “help promote Korean literature internationally and… Read more »