News

Special Collection in Demographic Research: Family Changes and Inequality in East Asia

May 12, 2021

The James Joo-Jin Program in Korean Studies held the first Social Sciences Korea conference in December 2019 with the theme, Family Changes and Inequality in East Asia.

The authors of the papers presented in the conference successfully published their papers in the peer-reviewed journal, Demographic Research and now 8 papers, along with the introduction to the special issue by Hyunjoon Park (Director, the Kim Program), are available as a Special Collection in the journal. They are all freely available from https://www.demographic-research.org/special/30/

Korean Studies Summer Virtual Colloquium Series

May 11, 2021

The Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the Korean Studies Summer Virtual Colloquium during the Summer 2021. All talks will take place on Zoom at 8pm EDT.  

Please register via the following links:

 Title: "How do you Study and Teach Korea/Koreans in your Field_?"

Introducing the 2021-2022 Kim Program Graduate Fellow!

April 17, 2021

We are pleased to award the 2021-2022 Kim Program Graduate Fellow to Chloe (Jae-Kyung) Ahn! 

NOW ACCEPTING 2021-22 KIM PROGRAM GRADUATE FELLOW APPLICATIONS

February 19, 2021

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies is pleased to announce the Graduate Fellow Award, aimed at students who are involved in the study of Korea and interested in active participation in the university’s Korean studies program. Fellows will be selected on the basis of academic merits and demonstrated interest in Korean studies. Applicants for this one-year award should be graduate students. Preference will be given to applicants at the early stage of a master or doctoral program.

Korean Studies Spring Colloquium Series

December 7, 2020

The Kim program is pleased to announce the following talks for our Spring 2021 Colloquium series.

Nuri Kim (2017–2018 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow)

November 6, 2020

We are pleased to announce that former Kim Program affiliate Dr. Nuri Kim has accepted a position at the University of Cambridge, UK, as University Lecturer in Korean Studies (similar to Assistant Professor in the U.S.) to begin in January 2021.

Now Accepting 2021–22 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications

October 23, 2020

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program at the University of Pennsylvania announces a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies for the 2021–22 academic year. The postdoctoral fellowship is open to scholars whose research and teaching focus on contemporary Korea in the social sciences broadly defined (e.g., anthropology, communication, economics, education, geography, political science, sociology, and other related disciplines).

Publication Announcement

September 14, 2020

Seok Lee, Associate Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, published a chapter, "Beyond the Peninsula: Sports and the Olympic Games in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)" for The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia (New York: Routledge, 2020) and "Editor’s Introduction: Korean Sports History" in International Journal of Korean History.
 

Publication Announcement

September 10, 2020

Hyunjoon Park has published this co-authored paper, "Men and Women's Different Dreams on the Future of the Gendered Division of Paid Work and Household Work after COVID-19 in South Korea" in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. The paper will be available for free access until October 24, 2020: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562420300809?dgci...
 

Korean Studies Summer Virtual Colloquium Series

May 26, 2020

The Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the Korean Studies Summer Virtual Colloquium during the Summer 2020.
 
With the help from the Association of Korean Sociologists in America (AKSA), the Korean Studies Summer Virtual Colloquium will feature presentations from diverse scholars who study Koreans and Korean Americans. Each presentation will be followed by the Q&A session.