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: Database of North Korean Cyber Operations Faculty Director: Prof. John Park, Director, Korea Project, Harvard Kennedy School
This summer, I was a Research Assistant for Professor John Park at the Harvard Kennedy School-affiliated Belfer Center. Over ten weeks, I conducted a research project called ‘Database of North Korean Cyber Operations’. Effectively what this meant was that I would be examining North Korea’s activities, attacks, espionage acts in cyberspace. The end goal was to develop my own knowledge, assist Professor Park and his...
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...
The Korea Institute, Harvard University announces the 2022 Student Grant and Fellowship Awards
These Korea Institute undergraduate and graduate student awards are generously supported by the Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund, Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature Fund, Modern Korean Economy and Society (Sanhak) Endowment Fund, SBS Endowment Fund, SBS Foundation Research Fund, LG Yonam Fund and anonymous donors at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.
Date: Friday, December 3, 2021 Time: 2:00-4:00pm ET Location: Virtual in Crimson Careers Eligibility: Harvard College students Register to Attend: Login to your...
This year, I spent my summer researching for my thesis about the integration of North Korean refugees in South Korea. My work adopts a qualitative approach and tries to identify short and long-term challenges that prevent North Korean refugees to fully integrate into South Korean society after going through the 3-month long residential integration program in Hanawon. I furthermore am interested in seeing whether I can draw any conclusions from the long-term consequences of...
Faculty Project: Professor Haden Guest Faculty: Director, Harvard Film Archive; Senior Lecturer, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
This past summer, I was honored with the opportunity to serve as curatorial and research assistant to the Harvard Film Archive in the creation of a series of programs centered on the topics of Korean Diaspora and Korean Experimental Cinema, to be presented in virtual and in-person screenings this upcoming year. Rooted in the works of the great Korean-American artist Theresa...
Faculty Project: Aurality and Social Practices of Reading in Korean Literature Faculty: Associate Professor, Si Nae Park, Dept. of EALC
I applied for a Korea Institute Research Assistantship position with almost no hesitation. I was looking for summer work, and I knew I wanted to do something that dealt with Korean culture or history. As a Korean American raised by immigrant parents, I have always wanted to...
Faculty Project: Database of North Korean Hacker Activities Faculty: Prof. John Park, Director of the Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center
Funded by the Korea Institute at Harvard University, I was a cohort member of the Summer Research Program led by Dr. John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. My research paper investigated the implications for the North Korean government adjusting for a post-Kim future...
