Korea Institute 2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards for Korea-Related Research, Travel and Work
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 choose from a wide array of Korea-related programmatic activities. Graduate and undergraduate...
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 Archives, located nearby the headquarters. The grant...
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 conducting Korea-related research—with advanced language training in reading, writing, listening, and...
Whether you spent the summer in Korea or are thinking about going to Korea next summer, we welcome you to drop by the Korea Institute to learn about our upcoming events and resources that the Korea Institute offers. We very much look forward to getting to know you or reconnecting with you after you've returned. We are located in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. on the 2nd floor. The Korea Institute main office is located in room S228. Please also check out the For Students tab to find out about the various opportunities and grants for students wanting to go to Korea. Lastly, add your name...
Korea Institute 2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards for Korea-Related Research, Travel and Work
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 choose from a wide array of Korea-related programmatic activities. Graduate and undergraduate...
Thanks to the Korea Institute’s generous support, I was able to attend the summer program of the Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at Sungkyunkwan University (IUC). This program, which was developed with graduate-level academics and professionals in mind, allowed me to spend my summer focusing on developing my academic Korean ability in preparation for future research.
During the Summer break, I spent most of the time conducting archival research at several institutions in Seoul, South Korea, including The National Library of Korea, The National Assembly Library, and Korean Film archive. My primary goal in this archival study was to collect relevant materials and data for my doctoral research project on “techno-fantasy” that had formed in the course of post-Korean War modernization. To facilitate this project, I needed concrete materials to shed light on how this kind of fantasy was enacted in South Korea’s visual culture in the 1960 and 70s. Thus, I...
I applied to the Korea Institute Graduate Summer Research Grant to visit Presidential Archives in Sejong City, South Korea. Besides visiting Sejong City, I also conducted research at Kuksa-p'yŏnch'an-wiwŏnhoe (National Institute of Korean History library) located in Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do. The grant enabled me to travel to South Korea, pay for food and lodging, as well as cover internal transportation expenses during this crucial period of collecting material for preliminary dissertation research and preparing for dissertation prospectus writing the coming fall semester.
I traveled to South Korea this summer to access and acquire primary sources for my Master’s thesis. For the thesis, I planned to examine the culture of and social attitudes towards consumption in postwar (Korean War) South Korea. My plans for summer research included trips to the Rare Books Collection of Seoul National University, National Archives, and Korean Film Archive. During the summer, I was able to narrow my research topic down to a more tangible and specific form of consumption: the consumption of the typewriter in South Korea in the 1950’s.
Whether you spent the summer in Korea or are thinking about going to Korea next summer, we welcome you to drop by the Korea Institute to learn about our upcoming events and resources that the Korea Institute offers. We very much look forward to getting to know you or reconnecting with you after you've returned. We are located in CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St. on the 2nd floor. The Korea Institute main office is located in room S228.
