A very big Congratulations to our two students, Mr. John Song Lee and Ms. Chelsea Carlson, who have both been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Awards!
Mr. John Lee is a G3, PhD candidate in EALC Department at Harvard. He will be using the Fulbright fellowship to continue research on his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Protect the Pines, Punish the People: Forest Conservation and its Consequences in Choson Korea, 1392-1895."In the fall semester '13, he will be studying with Chun Young-woo, an expert on pre-modern Korean forestry at Kookmin University in Seoul. In...
I spent two months of this summer in Seoul. Thanks to Korea Institute’s generous research grants in previous years, as well as the current one, I went to Seoul with high familiarity. My visits in the summers of 2008 and 2011 prepared me well for this research trip. I navigated through the ins and outs of Seoul like a local. I had a very comfortable stay in Seoul and returned to Cambridge deeply missing its connectivity and efficiency.
This time in Seoul, the efficiency of this metropolis left me awestruck. As do most incoming foreign visitors to...
The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean...
Korea Institute offers Undergraduates Korean Study Opportunities
Harvard Gazette--Thursday, May 26, 2011
Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, distinguished scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean studies community at Harvard. Harvard University is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Korea, and through the...
Three scholars from Harvard’s Music Department received prizes at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Los Angeles in early November 2010. Graduate student Katherine Lee, a teaching fellow in music at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won both the 2010 Charles Seeger Prize for Best Student Paper of...
These Korea Institute student awards are generously supported by the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea, and by the Young-Chul Min Memorial Fund, Sunshik...
The Korea Institute provides desks in shared office space in CGIS South to Harvard doctoral students. This is a valuable way of bringing advanced graduate students into the Korean studies and international research community. For 2009-10, two students were designated as Korea Institute Graduate Student Associates:
ILSOO DAVID CHO, Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian Languages (HEAL) MOON YOUNG JUN, Ph.D. candidate...