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King first became interested in the Korean language during his second year of undergraduate studies. He first visited Korea in 1981, during the Gwangju Uprising, and learned Korean by talking with locals. [2] He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University and has published books in both English and Korean. [3]
Korean studies is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of Korea, which includes South Korea, North Korea, and diasporic Korean populations. Areas commonly included under this rubric include Korean history, Korean culture, Korean literature, Korean art, Korean music, Korean language and linguistics, Korean sociology and anthropology, Korean politics, Korean economics, Korean ...
He enrolled at Harvard University on scholarship that fall. His undergraduate career was interrupted by World War II. Wagner briefly served in the U.S. Army during the war. [1] His interest in Korean studies arose while working as a civilian in Korea as part of the United States Army Military Government in Korea between 1945 and 1948. [1]
The curriculum follows the standard Korean education system. Natural Science Track (Class 5-10): This division encourages students to have in-depth study in the field of natural science including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus, providing them with numerous opportunities to conduct experiments on the class topic.
Korean Studies (Korean: 한국학) is an English-language international academic journal that seeks to further scholarship on Korea and Koreans abroad by providing a forum for interdisciplinary and multicultural articles, book reviews, and essays in the humanities and social sciences.
As Korean studies emerged as an academic field in the second half of the twentieth century, Martina Deuchler, generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, contributed to the networking among Korea specialists isolated in a few European universities and was one of the founding members of the Association for Korean Studies in ...
Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea (1975) Korea on the Eve of the Kangwa Treaty, 1873-1876 (1989) Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the late Chosŏn Dynasty (1995) Palais, James B.. 1995. “A Search for Korean Uniqueness”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 55 (2).
Eckert then undertook graduate studies, earning a Master of Arts in 1968. [4] After graduating from Harvard, Eckert worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea. [2] He later returned to the U.S. to undertake doctoral study in Korean and Japanese history at the University of Washington. [2]