Enjoy these photograph highlights taken by our program staff and some of the students in the program! The program courses for 2017 are Korea Reborn: Postwar Korea as Seen Through Film and Korean language!
Matthew Lauer’s research focuses on social history and local history from Korea’s Chosŏn Period. His work consists primarily of close analysis of judicial and administrative records from that era. When analyzing these documents, he draws broadly from anthropological, sociological, and cultural methodologies to tease out insights into everyday life within the Chosŏn village. He is particularly interested in the practical realities of the lives of slaves and their position within the late-Chosŏn legal system. For his dissertation, he analyzed the...
Michael Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist who focuses on language, management, and technology in contemporary South Korea. For his dissertation, he spent a year as an ethnographer-intern inside a steel conglomerate in Seoul. His dissertation seeks to understand how control operates in South Korean corporate worlds through an emphasis on the forms of writing, technologies, and events that mediate office life. In contrast to the image of centralized and top-down control emanating from family-...
Korea Institute 2017 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...
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies for academic year 2017-18: Dr. Peter Kwon.
Peter Banseok Kwon earned his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages (focus: Modern and Contemporary Korean History) at Harvard University in 2016. Peter’s dissertation, “The Anatomy of Chaju Kukpang: Military-Civilian Convergence in the Development of the South Korean Defense Industry under Park Chung Hee, 1968-1979,” examines South Korea’s chaju kukpang (‘self-reliant national defense’) policy for independent...
Introducing two new Korea-related courses offered in the Spring 2017 semester:
(Image of EASTD 151 Buddhist Art of Korea: Faith, Power and Paradise course poster, 2017) “Buddhist Art of Korea: Faith, Power and Paradise” Instructor:...
Start to research your summer plans for Korea! Talk it over with your family over the Thanksgiving or Winter Break. The 2017 Harvard Summer School in Seoul Program online application is due: Thursday, January 26, 2017 .
The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
Sung Ho Kim (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University where he was Director of the Social Sciences Research Institute until recently. Previously, he was a professor of political science at Williams College and the University of California. His primary field of research is political, social, and legal theories; he is also interested in Korean, Japanese, and East Asian politics and history in general. He is...
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.
