Please join us for the virtual Engaging the World: International Opportunities Fair on Friday, October 2, 2020 from 1-4pm online.
Students may sign-up to attend the fair using the following link: https://forms.gle/WKF7vz8xP6cn2bqZ8. The event link will be sent out to those who have signed-up, early in the day on October 2. We hope to see you stop by the Korea Institute virtual table!
Taking place during Harvard's Worldwide Week, the Harvard College International Opportunities Fair is an annual undergraduate student...
The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing Si Nae Park Published by Columbia University Press
As the political, economic, and cultural center of Chosŏn Korea, eighteenth-century Seoul epitomized a society in flux: It was a bustling, worldly metropolis into which things and people from all over the country flowed. In this book, Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular narrative form that was evocative of the spoken and written Korean language of the time.