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Centre of Korean Studies

SOAS Centre Members

Centre Chair

Dr Jaehoon Yeon

Centres and Programmes Office:
Office Manager

Ms Jane Savory

Executive Officer

Ms Rahima Begum

Academic Staff

Lucien Brown
Research Fellow
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Korean language and applied linguistics; second language acquisition and pedagogy; Korean pragmatics and sociolinguistics; The Korean honorifics system.

Dae-oup Chang
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Dae-oup Chang

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
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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
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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.

Anders Karlsson
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
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Korean language; literature and society; history of 19th century Korea

Fujiko Kobayashi
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
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Grace Koh
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
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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.

Tat Yan Kong
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Tat Yan Kong

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
Kyung Eun Lee

Korean language teaching

Peter Sells
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Peter Sells

Korean and Japanese grammar and linguistic theory, negation and modality in Korean, Japanese historical syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, the morphology-syntax interface

Isolde Standish
Member, Centre of Korean Studies
Isolde Standish: Centre for Media and Film Studies

East Asian film and visual media

Jae Hoon Yeon
Chair, Centre of Korean Studies
Jaehoon Yeon

Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature

External Members

Hakyung Chang
Visiting Scholar
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Narratology, the theory of narrative. Comparative study of novel and other fictional genres, especially cartoon

Martina Deuchler
Professorial Research Associate
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Seung-Woo Lee
Visiting Scholar
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Contemporary Korean literature

Owen Miller
Research Associate
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Economic history of Korea; merchants in late Choson; Korean historiography

Jung Won Min
Visiting Scholar
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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.

Deok-Jae Park
Visiting Scholar
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Gender studies with respect to language education

Wookhee Shin
Visiting Scholar
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Britain's policy and idea toward Korea 1882-1910

Youngsook Pak
Research Associate
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