#  The Korea Institute, Harvard University announces the 2025 Student Grant and Fellowship Awards  

 





June 05, 2025

 

 

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**The Korea Institute, Harvard University announces the 2025 Student Grant and Fellowship Awards**

The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean studies community at Harvard. Through the Korea Institute, Harvard offers resources for graduate and undergraduate students to study Korea. On campus in Cambridge, students take courses on Korea and may participate in a wide array of Korea-related programmatic activities. Graduate and undergraduate students may conduct thesis research and language study in Korea, and undergraduates may undertake study and work abroad opportunities in Korea through programs such as the Harvard Summer School-Korea Program, the Korea Institute Summer Internship Program and Korean language and academic study at Ewha Womans University and Seoul National University. In addition, the Korea Institute also offers Summer Research Travel Grants and Undergraduate Research Assistantships for Korea focused projects supervised by Harvard faculty.

AY24-25 Korea Institute undergraduate and graduate student awards are generously supported by the Jeffrey D. and Jean K. Lee Korea Institute Fund, LG Yonam Fund, Myung Soon Min and Anya Oh Fund, Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature, Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund, Ohr Family Fund, SBS Endowment Fund, SBS Foundation Research Fund, and the Youngja Kim Fund in Support of the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

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**Korea Institute Scholarships for Harvard Summer School Korea Summer Program – Undergraduate**  
**Eunice Chae,**’26, Harvard Summer School in Seoul  
**Olajuwon (Jubi) Oladipo**,’28, Harvard Summer School in Seoul

**Korea Institute Undergraduate Research Assistantships**  
**Dean Kim** ’27, Computer Science working on Nicholas Harkness’ faculty project, "AI in/and South Korea"  
**SoEun Park**, '26, Government/Sociology, working on Danilo Mandic’s faculty project, "How Political Regimes Shape the Experience of Immigrants and Refugees in their Destination Countries", focusing on North Korean Escapees and South Korean Immigrants  
**Anna Umeda**, ’27 Sociology and EAS, working on Si Nae Park’s faculty project, “Literary History, Literary Information, and the Making of Korean Literature*”*

**Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Language Study Grants to Ewha University (EISC) Tuition Waiver**  
**Frances Yee,** ’28, Undeclared, Ewha Womans University

**Korea Institute Scholarship to Attend Seoul National University- International Summer Program (SNU-ISP) Tuition Waiver**  
**Samantha Kao**, ’28, Undeclared, Seoul National University

**Harvard College Korea Summer Internship Program**  
**Catherine (Catie) Lee**, HAA, '27- Intern at CJ CheilJedang  
**Sally Williams**, TDM/Anthropology, '27- Intern at CJ Cultural Foundation  
**Inseo Yeo,** Economics, '26- Intern at CJ ENM

**Korea Institute Graduate Summer Research Travel Fellowships**  
**Yearin Paris Boo**, G2, Government, *“Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the US and Political Mobilization in South Korea.”*   
**Nayun Eom**, G2, Sociology, *“AI, Robots, and the State: The New Eldercare Economy in South Korea.”*  
**Kwan Woo Hahn**, G5, EALC-HEAL, *“Engendering Korean Everyday (Summer Preliminary Field Research).”*   
**Jaeyeon Jeon**, G2, Comparative Literature, *“The terrible lie that we implies unity": a new collectivity in Korean literature and the world.”*  
**Gene Kim**, G7, EALC-HEAL, *“Upwellings After Empire: Korea, Japan, and Oceanic Decolonization.”*   
**Woohee Kim**, G3, GSE-Culture Institutions Society, on *“Education for Critical Consciousness: A Pilot Study of Youth Education Program in South Korea.”*   
**Jueun (June) Lee**, G3, Anthropology, *“Becoming Unrelated: Muyongo Bodies and Posthumous Relationlessness in Contemporary South Korea.”*   
**Hwa Pyung Yoo**, G2, GSE-Culture, Institutions, Society, *“Constructing Cosmopolitanism: Ideologies of the Native Speaker in South Korean English Classrooms.”*

**Korea Institute Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students**  
**Yu Xie**, G1, EALC-HEAL (Korean History) IUC Program for Japanese Language 3d Year, in Yokohama, Japan  
  
**Korea Institute Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants for AY25-26**  
**Kwan Woo Hahn**, G3, EALC-HEAL, *"Engendering Korean Everyday"*

**Korea Institute Conference Attendance Grants-Graduate**  
**Jisu Yang,** G2, GSD-Master in Design Studies, Attending *My Lab, hosted by The May 18 International Research Institute*, Gwangju, South Korea

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