Please enjoy an article written by our Summer 2017 Korea Herald intern, Kai Potter, '19. It's about the new Understand Ave., Seoul Forest’s new hot spot!

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170711000729

Professor Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, has been awarded the 2017 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his recent publication, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism 1866-1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). The fellowships, supported by a fund established in memory of Walter Channing Cabot by Cabot’s wife Elizabeth Rogers Cabot and her children in 1905, are given annually to honor distinguished faculty members who have contributed to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art. In

                Michael Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist who focuses on language, management, and technology in contemporary South Korea. For his dissertation, he spent a year as an ethnographer-intern inside a steel conglomerate in Seoul. His dissertation seeks to understand how control operates in South Korean corporate worlds through an emphasis on the forms of writing, technologies, and events that mediate office life. In contrast to the image of centralized and top-down control emanating from family-

The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies for academic year 2017-18: Dr. Peter Kwon.

Peter Banseok Kwon earned his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages (focus: Modern and Contemporary Korean History) at Harvard University in 2016. Peter’s dissertation, “The Anatomy of Chaju Kukpang: Military-Civilian Convergence in the Development of the South Korean Defense Industry under Park Chung Hee, 1968-1979,” examines South Korea’s chaju kukpang (‘self-reliant national defense’) policy for independent military