# The Korea Institute, Harvard University announces the 2024 Student Grant and Fellowship Awards May 21, 2024 ![cherry blossom photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/munir-rani-r2vfn6nvfqw-unsplash.jpg?itok=HzX5SeNW) **The Korea Institute, Harvard University announces the 2024 Student Grant and Fellowship Awards** 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 participate in a wide array of Korea-related programmatic activities. Graduate and undergraduate students may conduct thesis research and language study in Korea, and undergraduates may undertake study and work abroad opportunities in Korea through programs such as the Harvard Summer School-Korea Program, the Korea Institute Summer Internship Program and Korean language and academic study at Ewha Womans University and Seoul National University. In addition, the Korea Institute also offers Summer Research Travel Grants and Undergraduate Research Assistantships for Korea focused projects supervised by Harvard faculty. These Korea Institute undergraduate and graduate student awards are generously supported by the LG Yonam Fund, Myung Soon Min and Anja Oh Fund in Support of the Korea Institute, Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature Fund, Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund, Modern Korean Economy and Society (Sanhak) Fund, SBS Endowment Fund, SBS Foundation Research Fund, and the Youngja Kim Fund at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. \--- **Korea Institute Scholarships for Harvard Summer School Korea Summer Program – Undergraduate** Kayla Andrews, ’27, Harvard Summer School in Seoul Asantewa Bonna, ’26, Harvard Summer School in Seoul Thu Le, ’27, Harvard Summer School in Seoul Faith Park, ’26, Harvard Summer School in Seoul Sara Rhouate, ’26, Harvard Summer School in Seoul **Korea Institute Undergraduate Research Assistantships** **Aimee Choi,** ’27, Government working on Mary Brinton’s faculty project, Gender-Role Attitudes and Daily Lives of Highly-Educated Korean Men and Women **Joyce Kim,** ’26, English/Philosophy working on Si Nae Park’s faculty project, Literary Listing: Enumerated Titles of Korean Books and Realignment of Literature **Mina Chae**, '26, Statistics working on Prof. William Alford's faculty project, Why Creative Thinking about Disability is Vital to Korea’s Future **Korea Institute Undergraduate Summer Language Study Grants to Ewha University (EISC) Tuition Waiver** **Hien My Le,** ’24, Sociology, Ewha Womans University **Korea Institute Scholarship to Attend Seoul National University- International Summer Program (SNU-ISP) Tuition Waiver** **Will Smith,** ’26, East Asian Studies/History, Seoul National University **Harvard College Korea Summer Internship Program:Aaron Arlanza**, 2026, Linguistics/Economics--Intern at CJ ENM **Theresa Lee,** 2026, Economics/Computer Science—Intern at CJ Cultural Foundation **Korea Institute Graduate Summer Research Travel Fellowships** **Yoeun Chung,** G2, GSD Doc of Design Program,” Matter of Identity: Retrofitting of Built Environment Against Changing Lifestyle The Case of Seoul” **Kwan Woo Hahn,** G3, EALC-HEAL, “Social Management in the Park Chung Hee Era (1961–1979)” **Marissa Hauser,** G1, RSEA, “Tracing the Roots and Branches of the New Heart Movement” **Jaeyeon Jeon,** G2, Com Lit, “The Woman Destroyed (1967) and The Woman Standing (1985): Pak Wan-so's Writing with Simone de Beauvoir” **Seokweon Jeon,** G5, Religion, “Diasporic Koreans, Christianity, and the Struggle Against U.S. Anti-Asian Policies, 1882-1924” **Han Na Jun,** G1, RSEA, “Post-Cold War Geopolitics and Migrant (Il)legality of Third-Country-Born North Korean Children” **Young Ju Reika Ku,** G1, RSEA, “The Stickiness of Institutionalized Cooperation of the US-Japan-ROK Security Triangle” **Jiyeon Lee,** G1, RSEA, “Transforming the State: Marriage Migrants in South Korea” **Jueun Lee,** G2, Anthro, “Becoming Unrelated: Death, Social Relations, and the State in South Korea” **Mayako Liu,** G3, EALC-HEAL, “Development of Heritage Tourism in Wartime Colonial Korea” **Korea Institute Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students** **Merle Kartscher,** G2, History, Short Term Intensive Program at the Korean Language Center at Korea University, Higher intermediate level, Seoul, Korea **Chae Lin (Shae) Kim,** G1, EALC-Kor Litr, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS) Classical Japanese Program, Kyoto, Japan **Korea Institute Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants for AY24-25** **Min Ji Choi,** G5, Comparative Literature, “The Ghostly Real: Shamanistic Thinking in Twentieth Century Korean Literature” **International Communication Foundation (ICF) Fellowship for AY24-25** **Mei Mingxue Nan,** G4, Comparative Literature**, “**Post-Apocalyptic Storytelling in South Korean Science Fiction” **Korea Institute Conference Attendance Grants-Graduate** **Soojin Kim**, G4, Anthropology, *American Anthropological Association/CASCA Annual Meeting,* Toronto, Canada **Yoojung Chun**, G2, English, *ALTA 46 (The American Literary Translator Association)*, Tucson, AZ **Jiyeon Lee**, G1, RSEA, Arizona State University East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Tempe, AZ **Will C. Sack**, G5, History, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, WA **Min Ji Choi**, G5, Comparative Literature, Modern Language Association 2024 Convention, Philadelphia, PA **Woohee Kim**, G2, Education, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference, Miami, FL **Sujin Elisa Han**, G6, EALC-HEAL, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, WA **Photo credit**: **Munir-Rani from Unsplash** See also:- [ Graduate ](/audience/graduate) - [ Undergraduate ](/audience/undergraduate) - [ Announcement ](/news-type/announcement) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)