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 and anonymous donors at the Korea Institute, Harvard University.
For summer 2021, all student study and research opportunities supported by the Korea Institute were conducted remotely due to Covid-19 and travel restrictions, except as noted.
Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Research
Celina Hollmichel, ’22, Government/East Asian Studies, “Integration of North Korean Refugees in South Korea”
Korea Institute Undergraduate Research Assistantships
Caron Kim, ‘24, Sociology/Theater, Dance, and Media or Music, Working on Prof. Si Nae Park Aurality and Social Practices of Reading in Korean Literature Faculty Project
Emily Kim, '22, East Asian Studies/AFVS, Working on Prof. Haden Guest HFA (Harvard Film Archive) Korean Cinema Faculty Project
Eliana Lee, ‘24, Psychology, Working on Prof. Jeannie Gersen “Korean Constitutionalism and Rule of Law” Faculty Project
Angie Shin, ‘23, Government, Working on Prof. John Park Database of North Korean Hacker Activities Faculty Project
Korea Institute Summer Research Travel Fellowships
William Sack, G2, History, “Out of Place: 4-H in South Korea”
Korea Institute Remote Summer Research Fellowships – Graduate
Gangsim Eom, G3, Anthropology, “Koreans in Indonesia: An Historical and Ethnographic Anthropology”
Sujin Elisa Han, G5, EALC-HEAL, "Managing Life: Water, Development, and Public Health in Rural South Korea, 1953-1981"
Sangjae Lee, G5, EALC-HEAL, “Contextualizing the Western Learning in the Late Nineteenth Century Korea”
Sungik Yang, G4, EALC-HEAL, “The Fascist Moment in Korea: The Politics of Korean Nationalism and the Road to Mass Dictatorship, 1945–1979"
Soojin Kim, G1, Anthropology, “An ethnographic research on blindness and technology in South Korea”
Korea Institute Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students
Mayako Liu, G1, RSEA, Online Intensive Short-Term 4-week Program, Korea University Korea Language Center
Korea Institute Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants AY21-22
Yusung Kim, EALC-East Asian Arts/Film, G7, “Cold War Techno-Fantasy and Its Miniaturized Displays: New Environment in South Korea and Japan”