40th Anniversary
Since 1981, the Korea Institute has worked with faculty and students across disciplines to promote and support Korean Studies at Harvard and throughout the world. In celebration of its 40th year, the Korea Institute is highlighting three programmatic themes, which have long informed scholarship on Korea and continue to motivate exciting and urgent questions of a fundamentally global nature.
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Global Migration: The Korean Diaspora
The Korean diaspora, which emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, now encompasses more than thirty countries and about 7.5 million people. Korean transnationalism provides a fascinating portal through which to explore questions of demography, migration, race and ethnicity, citizenship, language, nationalism, and many other issues of historical and contemporary concern.
Global Governance and Peace: Korean Political Economy and International Relations
The Korean peninsula, uniquely and strategically located at the epicenter of northeast Asia, has provided a generative site for the study of modern economic development and democratization, as well as communism and dictatorship. The two Koreas continue to be the focus of extensive research and debate regarding nuclear and environmental security, economic and diplomatic policy, and the geopolitical dynamics of science, technology, and commercial enterprise.
Global Cultures: Korean Art and Performance
Korea’s artistic heritage, both popular and royal-aristocratic, spans the senses: From Koryŏ celadon to the Korean Wave, from the dignified hanbok to the delicious mŏkpang, arts and performance have been integral to Korean social life. In the last two decades, Korean artists, performers, writers, and designers have experienced an unprecedented surge of interest from audiences and connoisseurs around the world.
- Korea Institute Film Events
- Korea Collection at the Harvard Art Museum
- Park Dae Sung: Ink and Soul
- Park Dae Sung, Artist Talk and Symposium
- North Korean Propaganda Posters Exhibit
- Music Performance and Discussion: "From Epigram to Elegy: The Poetics of Musical Interpretation"
- Korean Art and Gender Conference