The Center for Korean Studies has concluded a new academic exchange and cooperation agreement with the Korean Language Education Research Institute of Seoul National University.
The agreement went into effect December 27, 2007, with the exchange of signed copies of the agreement by Prof. Ho-min Sohn (seen on the left in the photograph at right), director [...]

Professor of sociology Hagen Koo has succeeded Karl E. Kim as editor of Korean Studies, the journal of the Center for Korean Studies. Koo assumed the chairmanship of the Center’s Publications Committee in July and with it responsibility for the Center’s journal as well as its book series, Hawai‘i Studies on Korea, Korean Studies Newsletter, [...]

The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University seeks applicants for its 2008-2009 postdoctoral Kyujanggak Fellowship program. The Institute will offer up to four awards, beginning in August 2008. Fellows are expected to arrive no later than September 2008, remain in residence for ten to twelve months, participate in the Institute’s colloquia and [...]

Academia Koreana, the Korean studies research institute of Keimyung University in Daegu, Korea, in conjunction with its semi-annual international Korean studies journal, Acta Koreana, has announced a new fellowship program starting on March 1, 2008.
Fellowship appointments initially will be made for ten months but may be extended, on review, for up to three years. Candidates [...]

The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Department of the History of Science, is accepting applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Modern Science and Technology in East Asia. Preference will be given to research projects exploring the understudied histories of modern science [...]

The Research Center for Korean Studies at Kyushu University invites applications for one visiting professorship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Foreign specialists in Korean studies who are interested in spending no more than six months at the Research Center for Korean Studies during the academic year of April 2008 to March 2009 are invited [...]

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University has announced the establishment of a postdoctoral fellowship in Northeast Asian History for the 2008–09 academic year. The fellowship, supported by the Northeast Asian History Foundation, will be awarded to a scholar for research and [...]

Hanyang University in Seoul is seeking applicants for two tenure-track positions in its Division of International Studies: (1) Political Science (International Organizations) and (2) Economics (Open). Rank is open for both positions. Starting date for both is March 1, 2008. Applications are being accepted until December 14, 2007.