LONDON, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In the United Kingdom, the field of Korean Studies is experiencing a significant upswing, with graduates increasingly finding diverse career paths and contributing to cultural diplomacy. Deborah Smith, the translator who brought Nobel laureate Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” to international acclaim, exemplifies this trend. Smith, a graduate of the School [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With the increasing popularity of Korea’s contemporary culture, the University of California plans to expand its Korean Studies program. Korea Foundation’s Los Angeles office said Tuesday that three UC campuses have either recruited new Korean Studies professors or currently accepting recruits for the Korean studies department. University of California, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Freshmen from the Institute of Korean Studies at the Free University of Berlin wore their first hanbok last week. Some 70 new students took part in a two-week orientation session before courses began, learning about Korean alphabet Hangul, Korean pronunciation and basic knowledge about Korea. The final phase of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to growing interest about South Korea in Britain, the University of Cambridge has opened master’s and doctorate degree programs in Korean studies. The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University recently opened master’s and doctorate programs in Korean studies. The university is scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean has become the third most popular foreign language in Russia following English and Chinese. Kazan Federal University’s Center of Korean Studies announced on Tuesday that it will host the first National Korean Olympiad. The center has been holding annual competitions on the Korean language for the past nine [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The next generation of Korean studies experts from Europe have gathered in Rome, Italy to discuss various aspects of South Korea and to suggest a possible direction of the field of study for the future. The 15th Korean Studies Graduate Students Conference in Europe was kicked off at the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Foundation, the state-run public diplomacy agency, said Friday it will launch the third phase of the Global e-School, in which local universities provide online Korean studies courses to their foreign counterparts. The foundation started the real-time video education program in 2011 in order to help make up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea bizwire) — The number of foreign faculties and research institutes that provide Korean studies and language courses has nearly doubled in a decade, owing to the country’s growing economic power, the Korean Wave and financial support, a state-financed public diplomacy organization here said Tuesday. “The number of overseas organizations running Korean [...]