The Department of History and The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University invite applications for a position in Korean history at the assistant or associate professor level. Applicants who specialize in any aspect of the Korean historical experience will be considered. The teaching portfolio includes both undergraduate and graduate courses.

The Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University has announced its Travel Grant Program for the 2008-2009 academic year. The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s collections for research. There will be seventeen grants of $400 each (six in Chinese studies, six [...]

Columbia University’s Eighteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia will be held Friday and Saturday, February 6-7, 2009. This two-day conference provides a forum for students from institutions around the world to meet and share ideas and research with their peers. Participants gain valuable experience in presenting their work for discussion with other graduate [...]

The Center for Korean Studies fall colloquium series continues on Thursday, October 23, 2008, with Prof. Hye Seung Chung’s presentation, “Beyond ‘Extreme’: Re-reading Kim Ki-duk’s Cinema of Ressentiment. The colloquium will be held in the Center for Korean Studies auditorium beginning at 4:00 p.m.
Hye Seung Chung is assistant professor of film and media studies [...]

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles, is seeking applicants for a position as assistant professor of Korean beginning in September 2009.
Requirements for the position include: a Ph.D., Ed.D., or ABD in Korean or a related field (such as linguistics or foreign language education) from [...]

Smith College and Five Colleges, Inc., seek candidates for a three-year, non-tenure-track appointment as Five College Lecturer in Korean language to begin in 2009-2010. Candidates must be able to teach all levels of the language and hold a master’s degree in Korean, linguistics, education, or a related field. Native or near-native fluency in Korean, competence [...]

The Department of Asian Languages and Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track position in Korean literature, culture, and media to begin in the fall semester 2009 (August 31, 2009).
Applicants should have expertise in the analysis of Korean literature, culture, [...]

The Center for Korean Studies fall colloquium series will feature a presentation titled “Competing Approaches to the Study of Language and Gender: Cross-adoption of Language between Genders in Korean” by Minju Kim Thursday, October 16, 2008. The colloquium will be held in the Center for Korean Studies conference room beginning at 4:00 p.m.
Minju Kim [...]

The Center for Korean Studies fall colloquium series continues Thursday, October 9, 2008, with a presentation by Professor Hyon-Sook Shin of Sangmyung University titled “Korean Language Education in the World: Programs and Textbooks.” Professor Shin’s talk, which will be given in Korean, will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the Center for Korean Studies [...]

The Center for Korean Studies fall colloquium series continues Thursday, October 2, 2008, with a presentation by Hyong-Min Kim of Hanyang University. Dr. Kim’s presentation is titled “A Contrastive Study of English-to-Korean Simultaneous Interpretation Methods in Catholic Retreats as Compared to Protestant Services with Reference to The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s Prayer, and Other Prayers.”
The [...]