SOAS Centre Members
Centre Chair
Dae-oup Chang
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
East Asia, capital-labour relations, state-society relations, labour and social movement in globalising East Asia, TNCs and division of labour in East Asia
- Tel: 0207 898 4531
- Email: dc13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4412
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
Charlotte Horlyck
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Art, archaeology of Korea; funerary customs; architecture, spatiality in pre-modern Korea; theories in the study of visual and material culture.
- Tel: 020 7898 4704
- Email: ch10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: B403
- Office Hours: Thursdays 5-6pm (during term time)
Keith Howard
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Keith Howard is an ethnomusicologist, musicologist and anthropologist. He is particularly interested in how people use and talk about music, and his work explores music and religion, composition, education, preservation and sustainability, commodification and commercialisation, traditions, and musical futures.
He is the author or editor of 16 books and more than 100 articles. He founded the SOASIS CD and DVD label and was founder and licensee of OpenAir Radio. He writes primarily about the music and culture of Korea, though he has also researched and published on the music of Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Siberia, Thailand, and Siberia. - Tel: 020 7898 4687
- Email: kh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 515
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-12pm, Fridays 2-3pm
Andrew David Jackson
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Premodern and modern Korean history and society; modern South Korean cinema; theory of rebellion and revolution; the 1980 Kwangju uprising; teaching academic English.
- Tel: 020 7898 4601
- Email: aj15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4409
Jaeho Kang
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Critical Theory; Media Theory; East Asian Media and Cultural Studies; Media Spectacle and Uran Space in East Asian Cities; Screen Culture in Korea; New Media and Democracy in Korea; Global Sports Events (the Olympics and the World Cup)
- Tel: 020 7898 4585
- Email: jk71@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 510
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 5-7pm
Anders Karlsson
Chair, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean language; literature and society; history of 19th century Korea - Tel: 020 7898 4265
- Email: ak49@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 388
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 16:00-17:00/Thursdays 11:00-13:00
Grace Koh
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4290
- Email: gk5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 385
- Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-13:00
Tat Yan Kong
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory - Tel: 020 7898 4743
- Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 206
- Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4pm (Term 1)
- On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13
Kyung Eun Lee
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean language teaching
- Tel: 020 7898 4267
- Email: kl14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 395
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 16:00
Laurence Harris
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Corporate Finance, Ethics and Finance, Central Banking and Macroeconomics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4051/ 4050
- Email: lh@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 516
- Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm
Owen Miller
Member
Modern Korean history and society; Korean historiography; social and economic history of 19th and 20th century Korea
- Tel: 020 7898 4363
- Email: om4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 408
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00/Thursdays 13:00-14:00
Isolde Standish
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:00
Jae Hoon Yeon
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature - Tel: 020 7898 4232
- Email: jy1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 384
- Office Hours: Fridays 14:00 - 15:00 and 16:00-17:00
Professorial Research Associates
Research Associates
Lucien Brown
Research Associate
Korean language and applied linguistics; second language acquisition and pedagogy; Korean pragmatics and sociolinguistics; The Korean honorifics system.
- Email: lb39@soas.ac.uk
J E Hoare
Research Associate
FCO Research Analysts (China, Japan and Korea) for 33 years. PhD from SOAS 1971 in Japanese history. Served in Seoul, Beijing and in 2001-2002, established the British Embassy in Pyongyang., Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Has taught Korean history at SOAS and currently teaches a course, “The Other Korea” on North Korea since 1945. Numerous publications, broadcasts etc.
- Tel: 020 7498 1489
- Email: jh3@soas.ac.uk
Youngsook Pak
Research Associate
Korean art history (from prehistory to the 20th century), Buddhist art, Confucian elite and its culture, Text and Images
- Email: yp@soas.ac.uk
Visiting Scholars
Hyanggeun Lee
Visiting Scholar
Korean children's literature in eduation; Korean folktales and songs; learning through reading: cognitive
- Email: hl29@soas.ac.uk
Ra Heeduk
Visiting Scholar
Korean contemporary poetry theory, creation of literature
- Email: rh49@soas.ac.uk
Hun Bong Park
Visiting Scholar
Chinese foreign relations; sino-Korean relations; East Asian politics; Sino-American relations
- Email: hp5@soas.ac.uk
Byung Woo Sohn
Visiting Scholar
Asian studies, especially popular culture in Korea
- Email: bs35@soas.ac.uk
Jae-Yoon Yi
Visiting Scholar
Cultural identity in costume and fashion, including particularly cultural hybridity, self-exoticization, the commercialization of cultural identity and the modernization of fashion in non-Western countries
- Email: jy3@soas.ac.uk
