Thanks to funding from centers such as Harvard’s Korea Institute, I was able to conduct fieldwork for my senior thesis this summer. The Korea Institute supplemented the costs of spending time in research, creating contacts, transcribing Korean interviews into English notes, and making site visits once in the country.

Before embarking on this research, I had formalized the question, “How does liberal religious advocacy influence South Korea’s human rights foreign policy on North Korea towards civil and political rights (CPR) v. economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR)...

Faculty Project: Language Transcription for the Korean Language Program
Faculty Director: Prof. Hi-Sun Kim, Senior Preceptor in Korean Director of the Korean Language Program, Dept. of EALC

This past summer, I transcribed recorded audio of spoken data of Korean language learners and analyzed the data collection to examine, assess, and identify patterns in language acquisition of Korean language learners through the current curriculum. As a joint concentrator in Classics and Linguistics with a language citation in Korean, the Language...

Despite uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, I was fortunately able to travel to Seoul for three weeks to conduct research for my master’s thesis. It had been four years since I last visited Korea, but it was my first time going for the sole purpose of research. While the landscape of Seoul felt familiar, the destinations I went to were all new and exciting. Thanks to the generous support of the Korea Institute, I not only collected valuable primary and secondary source materials for my thesis, but I also had the opportunity to meet with important individuals in the field who...

This summer, owing to the support of the Korea Institute, I participated in the intensive 6-week advanced academic Korean language program at the Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). I greatly appreciate the opportunity to take part in the program which is essentially the only Korean language program that is specifically designed to train foreign researchers and professionals in Korean studies in the use of high-level, academic Korean.

The program was particularly useful as it allowed me to broaden and deepen the scope of my...