The University of Sheffield (UK) School of East Asian Studies seeks applicants for a position as university teacher in Korean language (fixed-term) to begin September 1, 2008, and continue for three years. The holder of the position will work for ten months per annum, full-time, between September 1 and June 30 each year.

Interested applicants should apply directly using the University’s Web site (reference number R06468): www.sheffield.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is July 15, 2008.

Position Description: As the leading member of the language team, the postholder will take responsibility for the development, organization and teaching of modules on Korean language at all levels in the school. Duties will include preparing and supervising different modes of assessment, as well as undertaking departmental administrative duties. Applicants should possess a recognized higher degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field and a track record of relevant teaching experience, with native-speaker competence in the Korean language and native or near-native speaker competence in English. Salary: £26,665 - £33,780 per annum, pro-rata.

Applicants are being sought for a full-time Korean linguistics faculty position in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. This position is reserved for non-Korean nationals who can lecture in English. The appointment is scheduled to begin in March 2009.

Benefits include a twelve-month based salary; intrauniversity research grants; one-semester paid research leave every seven semesters; health insurance (includes dental coverage); work-related accident insurance; unemployment insurance; a government-employee pension; support for initial moving expenses; and optional campus housing at a cost below market rate.

The deadline for applications is July 11, 2008.

Applications should be sent to:
Office of Academic Affairs
College of Humanities
Seoul National University
Gwanak-ro 599, Shillim-dong, Gwanak-gu
Seoul 151-746
Republic of Korea

Further details can be found at http://professor.snu.ac.kr/eng/e_Newmain.jsp and http://humanitas.snu.ac.kr/eng/.

The Graduate School of Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), will host the 2nd International Junior Academic Conference on Korean Studies on Sept. 25 and 26, 2008, under the sponsorship of the Republic of Korea Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. This year’s theme will be “Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach and a New Horizon in Korean Studies.”

The conference will take place at the AKS Graduate School of Korean Studies, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. The language of the conference is Korean. Active participation of young scholars is welcome.

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The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library is accepting applications for a full-time, tenure-track, position as Korea specialist librarian (Librarian II or Librarian III) beginning August 1, 2008.

The holder of this position works with the faculty and students at the University of Hawaii who study and research Korea; provides professional reference service at the Asia Collection reference desk as scheduled; and responds to questions and requests for information and research assistance from faculty, students, and the general public. The librarian in this position works with the other area specialists in the Asia Collection, is actively involved in departmental affairs, and participates in library-wide activities.

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The Department of Korean Language Education of Seoul National University invites applications for a full-time, open-rank, and tenure-track position in theory and research methodology in Korean language education. Especially relevant specialties include Korean language acquisition, contrastive-error analysis, inter-language, comparative culture education, and other aspects of Korean as a foreign language.

To be considered, candidates must have earned a Ph.D. by March 2008 and will be expected to lecture in English. They also must have foreign (not Korean) nationality (overseas Koreans who don’t have Korean nationality are eligible). Excellent competence in oral and written English is essential, and native-level competence will be regarded as highly desirable in assessing applications.

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Applications are being accepted for a temporary, non-tenure track, full-time, nine-month appointment as an assistant professor to teach, in Korean, graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S.-Korea relations to Korean Flagship Program students beginning August 1, 2008. Instructional assignments will cover politics, diplomacy, economy, business, and trade. The successful candidate will also develop instructional materials in the above-mentioned fields, advise students, and teach, in English, one undergraduate or graduate class each semester in the Asian Studies program, covering topics on Northeast Asia and Korea-Japan relations.

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The School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield (England) seeks applicants for a position as lecturer in Korean studies (equivalent to U.S. assistant professor, fixed term) beginning September 1, 2008, and continuing for three years.

As the leading member of the language team, the successful candidate will be responsible for the development and teaching of modules on Korean language at all levels in the School. The postholder will also be expected to teach units (American courses) covering Korea and all of East Asia in topics relevant to their disciplinary expertise. Duties will include preparing and supervising different modes of assessment, as well as undertaking departmental administrative duties. The successful applicant will undertake research in line with the School’s Research Strategy, including producing publications and participating in research-related activities.

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The Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University is accepting applications for one full-time, tenure-track faculty position, open rank, in Korean studies to begin in September 2008 or March 2009.

Desirable candidates are international scholars with outstanding research and teaching credentials, in particular in the fields of Korean politics, Korean economy, Korean culture and history (premodern and colonial era), and North Korea.

Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. by August 2008 and will be expected to lecture in English (two courses per semester). Excellent competence in oral and written Korean and English is essential and native-level competence is a plus.

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The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University invites applications for two tenure-track, foreign faculty positions, one in the area of the history of the Choson dynasty and the other in the area of Korean religion.

In keeping with recent efforts to encourage diversity in its faculty, students, and curriculum, the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies seeks foreign scholars of Korean studies who will contribute to SNU’s leading role in Korean studies around the world. (Visit the SNU Web site at http://www.snu.ac.kr and the Kyujanggak Web site at http://e-kyujanggak.snu.ac.kr for more information.) Particularly desired are applications from candidates who will bring diverse cultural-historical perspectives to Korean studies in Korea.

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The Center for Korean Studies spring colloquium series continues Thursday, May 1, 2008, with a presentation titled “The Process of Family Succession in Late Choson: A Case Study of Euisung Kim’s Family.” The speaker is Prof. Ki-Soo Eun of Seoul National University.

The colloquium will be held in the Center for Korean Studies conference room and will begin at 4:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Family succession in the Choson period ideally involved succession by a legitimate son, usually an eldest son born to a legitimate wife in a family. Professor Eun investigates how family succession in the Choson period functioned in a high-mortality regime by focusing on the role and process of adoption. In this colloquium, Eun presents as an example family succession of Euisung Kim’s family in the Andong area.

Ki-Soo Eun is an assistant professor of sociology at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. He is director of Korean studies at GSIS. His main interests lie in gender and family, population change, and religion. He is a graduate of Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.