The Harvard-Yenching Library has announced its Travel Grant Program for the 2009-2010 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. The application deadline is December 15, 2009.
There will be nineteen grants of $400 each (seven in [...]

The Underwood International College of Yonsei University invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor of East Asian studies. Field is open, though special attention will be given to applicants working in history and to those with interdisciplinary research interests who are able to teach a range of courses in the humanities. Please note [...]

The Smith College Department of Art and the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) invite applications for a three-year, non-tenure track position as post-doctoral teaching and curatorial Fellow in East Asian art. Appointment will begin July 2010. Applicants must have demonstrably broad familiarity with the history of East Asian art; experience working with collections and [...]

The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a teaching-stream appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer to teach Korean language effective July 1, 2010. Successful applicants should have a minimum M.A. degree in Korean language with substantial experience and proven excellence in teaching Korean as a second language [...]

The 10th Biennial Pacific-Asia Conference on Korean Studies 2010 (PACKS 2010) will be held from November 24 (Wednesday) through November 26 (Friday), 2010, at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
The conference organizers invite paper and panel proposals from established and junior scholars. Proposals from postgraduate students and emerging scholars are especially encouraged. [...]

October 19 is the deadline to pre-register for the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, to be held November 12-14, 2009, at the University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies in Honolulu. Participants and others planning to attend the conference are strongly encouraged to pre-register in order to take advantage of lower registration fees and to assist [...]

The Center for Korean Studies fall colloquium series will begin with a presentation by Professor Jae-Gu Kim of Myongji University titled “CEO Leadership and Organizational Culture at the Korean Big Four Conglomerates.”
Kim is associate professor of organizations and strategy in the Department of Business Administration at Myongji and is currently a visiting scholar at [...]

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in Korean studies, beginning September 2010. Applications are invited from any of the key areas of Korean studies, including Korean language and literature, prose and poetry, intellectual history, [...]

The Center for Korean Studies is one of several local organizations joining in sponsorship of The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment October 8, 2009, at Kennedy Theatre.
The program of chants, drum and cymbal dances, and the elegantly costumed “Butterfly Dance” from the sacred Young San Ceremony will be presented in concert by [...]

onolulu television station KBFD-TV has won first prize at the 17th Worldwide Korean Language Broadcaster Conference for its new documentary film on the University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies.
The documentary, titled UH Center for Korean Studies Embraces the World, features the background of the founding, history, and achievements of the Center for Korean Studies, [...]