The Korea Institute at Harvard University is accepting applications for the Soon Young Kim Post-Doctoral Fellowshipin Korean Studies for the 2019-20 academic year.This Fellowship is open to scholars from all fields of study in Korean Studies. However, preference may be given to scholars working on the history of Koreanbusiness, the history of Korean science and technology, the history of Korean military or the environmental history of Korea.
Please enjoy this article written about the recent Destination: World PechaKucha student event in the Gazette. As part of Worldwide Week, students discussed how going abroad has changed their lives.
Eleven Harvard undergraduates shared their compelling experiences of personal discovery, intellectual exploration, and global engagement made possible through travel abroad via exciting Pechakucha presentations on Monday Oct. 22, 2018. Clickhere to listen to these inspiring student presentations from this Harvard Worldwide Week Event event. One of the...
Undergraduate Korea Summer Programs Information Session--Monday, Nov 5th at 4:30pm, Room S250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Summer Internships Summer Language Study Grants to Ewha Womans University (Tuition Waivers EISC) Korea Institute Undergraduate Scholarship to attend SNU International Summer Institute (SNU ISI) Undergraduate Summer Research Travel Grants Harvard Summer School in Seoul 2019 Program (Course on Changing Developments in North Korea and Korean Language)
We'll also have some returnee students from our summer 2017 and 2018...
2018 HSS-Korea Program student, Ece Hakim, '21, worked on an individual documentary film project on the culture of protest in South Korea during her time on the HSS-Korea Program in Seoul this past summer. Please take a look:
I would first and foremost like to thank the Korea Institute for its generous support in helping students like myself achieve their language education and research goals. This summer, I had the opportunity to study Korean at the Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at Sungkyunkwan University (IUC) in Seoul, South Korea.
An intensive, six-week program, IUC’s summer course provides its students—who range from master’s and doctoral students to professionals...
I applied to the Korea Institute Graduate Summer Language Research Grant for fieldwork and research in Korea, from May 30th to August 31st, 2018. After presenting at the prospectus conference in May, this was the first opportunity I had to conduct dissertation research abroad, with a focus on analyzing government documents on consumption policies during the Park Chung Hee period. With this in mind, I visited the National Archives Headquarters located inside the Daejeon Government Complex, and the Daejeon Repository of the National... Read more about A Graduate Student Perspective- Anna Jungeun Lee, EALC-HEAL, G4, KI Graduate Summer Research Grant, Summer 2018
Saying that my trip to South Korea was life-changing would be an understatement. Through the Korea Institute’s Ewha tuition waiver scholarship, I was able to experience not only focused, Korea-specific courses, but also was able to make life-long connections with other visiting students. Attending Ewha impacted me personally in more than one way and gave me an experience that no other program could ever have given. ...
I happened upon Korea by chance, filling my last class spot of fall semester with a sociology class on modern Korea just as course registration was due. This sparked an interest in a country I only ever heard about in news headlines or from my Korean American friends, and caused me to follow-up my sociology class with a Korea history class during spring semester. This resulted in a year-long adventure...
