SOAS Centre Members
Centre Chair
Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager
Executive Officer
Academic Staff
Lucien Brown
Research Fellow
Korean language and applied linguistics; second language acquisition and pedagogy; Korean pragmatics and sociolinguistics; The Korean honorifics system.
- Email: lb39@soas.ac.uk
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 3-5pm
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: Wednesdays 15:30-17:00
Keith Howard
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Ethnomusicology, Music of East Asia especially Korea, Korean culture and society, composition, music education, shamanism, music and religion, the music business. Also teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
- Tel: 020 7898 4687
- Email: kh@soas.ac.uk
Anders Karlsson
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean language; literature and society; history of 19th century Korea
- Tel: 020 7898 4265
- Email: ak49@soas.ac.uk
Grace Koh
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean literature, particularly pre-modern prose traditions and early modern fiction; East Asian prose traditions and intellectual history; travel literature; and comparative literary studies and critical theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4290
- Email: gk5@soas.ac.uk
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: Mon. 5-6, Weds. 5-6
Kyung Eun Lee
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean language teaching
- Tel: 020 7898 4267
- Email: kl14@soas.ac.uk
Peter Sells
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Korean and Japanese grammar and linguistic theory, negation and modality in Korean, Japanese historical syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, the morphology-syntax interface
- Tel: 020 7898 4652
- Email: sells@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 372
Isolde Standish
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 548
Jae Hoon Yeon
Chair, 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
External Members
Hakyung Chang
Visiting Scholar
Narratology, the theory of narrative. Comparative study of novel and other fictional genres, especially cartoon
- Email: hc8@soas.ac.uk
Owen Miller
Research Associate
Economic history of Korea; merchants in late Choson; Korean historiography
- Email: om4@soas.ac.uk
Jung Won Min
Visiting Scholar
The international views on the current issues of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Peninsula and the international society is in danger because of North Korea with its nuclear threats and its father-to-son succession of power. To come up with a corresponding policy, there must be a profound understanding of different international views.
- Email: jm67@soas.ac.uk
Deok-Jae Park
Visiting Scholar
Gender studies with respect to language education
- Email: dp30@soas.ac.uk
Wookhee Shin
Visiting Scholar
Britain's policy and idea toward Korea 1882-1910
- Email: ws15@soas.ac.uk
