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Korean Studies Spring 2022 Colloquium Series

December 14, 2021

The Kim program is pleased to announce the following talks for our Spring 2022 Colloquium series.  All talks will take place at 12:00pm EST in the Wolf Humanities Conference Room, Williams Hall 623 (location subject to change).  

Publication Announcement

September 28, 2021

Sangsoo Lee and Hyunjoon Park have published, "Trends and educational variation in the association between spouses' marital histories in South Korea, 1993-2017," with Demographic Research. Sangsoo Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and the Kim Program Graduate Fellow. Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies.

Call for Papers: 2nd Korean Studies Young Scholars (KSYS) Graduate Student Conference: Endeavors of Decentralization in Korea

September 23, 2021

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) invites graduate students to join us at the 2nd KSYS Graduate Student Conference, which will take place on March 11–12 (half-day), 2022 at Penn as an international and multi-disciplinary conference.

Guidelines for Attending and Participating in the Kim Program Korean Studies Colloquium

September 2, 2021

The Kim Program in Korean Studies adheres to the policies implemented by the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) and the University regarding protections in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the latest announcement from the University visit https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/announcement/message-campus-community-star...

Specific guidelines for the colloquium:

1. Vaccination requirements:

Introducing the New Faculty: So-Rim Lee

August 26, 2021

The Kim Program welcomes Dr. So-Rim Lee who is a Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dahye Kim (2020-21 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow)

August 14, 2021

We are pleased to announce that Dahye Kim (2020-21 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow) starts her new position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University beginning in the Fall 2021 semester: https://alc.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/kim-dahye.html.

Korean Studies Fall 2021 Colloquium Series

August 4, 2021

The Kim program is pleased to announce the following talks for our Fall 2021 Colloquium series.  All talks will take place at 12:00pm EST in the Wolf Humanities Conference Room, Williams Hall 623.  

Kim Program End of Year Newsletter 2020-21

May 17, 2021

Dear Friends,

When I wrote greetings for the end-of-year newsletter around this time last year, I could not imagine that the pandemic would still affect our lives until now, making me start this year’s newsletter with the same greeting. “I hope you and your family are doing well in these challenging times.”

Introducing the 2021-2022 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellows in Korean Studies!

May 13, 2021

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to introduce two incoming Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2021–2022 academic year: Yoonjung Kang (left) and Ji Hye Kim (right).

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/