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David McCann in Chosun Ilbo Oct. 6, 2009

October 22, 2009

"An American professor is promoting Korean literature in the U.S. David McCann, a professor of Korean literature and the director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University, is teaching his students how to write sijo, a traditional three-line Korean...

David McCann in the Boston Globe -- "The new haiku? Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo"

October 22, 2009

"CAMBRIDGE - The class on writing Asian poetry that Professor David McCann teaches at Harvard includes units on Chinese quatrains, Korean sijo, and Japanese haiku, the last of which is so well-known that McCann’s students had haiku days in middle school...

Korea Institute Graduate Student Associates (GSA) for AY2009-10

October 14, 2009

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...

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Thoughts While Living and Working in Seoul, Korea, Summer 2009--Returning Summer Intern, Anita Joseph's Articles in the Crimson

October 09, 2009

Anita Joseph, '12, wrote a series of articles from Korea this past summer for The Crimson. She was an intern at the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation & Planning (KISTEP), in the Global Cooperation & Public Relations Department. Read some...

My 2009 Summer Internship at the Chosun Ilbo in Korea (Korea's largest daily newspaper)

September 23, 2009

My 2009 Summer Internship at the Chosun Ilbo in Korea (Korea's largest daily newspaper) For the duration of my internship at Chosun Ilbo, I worked for the Culture section of the newspaper. I asked to be put into this department during orientation as I was...

My Summer Attending the Harvard Summer School-Seoul Program-Summer 2009

September 23, 2009

When I signed up for the Harvard Summer School program in Korea I did not really know what to expect. I was looking for a summer abroad program for which I was qualified and which also appeared interesting to me. This program matched what I was looking...

My Summer Interning at the ROK National Assembly-Summer 2009

September 23, 2009

My experience as a Director’s Intern at the National Assembly in South Korea gave me a unique opportunity to see the inter-workings of a foreign government and the nature of East Asian democracy and political culture firsthand. Functional and long lasting...

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My Summer Internship at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU)-Summer 2009

September 23, 2009

My 2009 Summer Internship at the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU)-- A government-funded think tank that conducts research on unification and North Korean issues. After studying Korean history and writing my thesis on Korean civil society...

My Summer Internship at the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation & Planning (KISTEP) -Summer 2009

September 23, 2009

Summary: I interned in the Global Cooperation & Public Relations Division of the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation & Planning. I wrote a Global Cooperation Handbook, to be published 2009 and continue to help coordinate a workshop for...

My Summer Studying at Sogang International Summer College (via a KI Tuition Waiver) -Summer 2009

September 23, 2009

First of all, I would just like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone at the Korea Institute who made this summer possible for me. I have always dreamt of studying abroad, but I never thought I would actually get the opportunity. If it hadn’t been for the...