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Centre of Korean Studies

Current MPhil and PhD students pursuing projects on Korea

Simon Barnes-Sadler
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Diaspora varieties of Korean: a comparative study

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Xi Chen
Chen XI

A contrastive study of illocutionary acts in Korean and Chinese


Justin Youngchan Choi
Youngchan Choi

Religion and Barbarism: Protestant Political Thought in Korea in the first half of the twentieth century

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Eugene Lee
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Critical Explorations of Late Chosŏn Travel Writing: Othering, Bordering, and Gift-giving

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Wonwoong Jeong
Wonwoong Jeong

The Broken Three Arrows: Abduction, Assassination, and the Dissolution of the Cold War Relations between South Korea, Japan, and the United States, 1973-1975.

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Sang Pil Jin
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'Late Joseon Diplomatic History and the Policy of Permanent Neutralization'


Youkyung Ju
Youkyung Ju

Typological Universals of Relative Clauses with Reference to Korean as a Foreign Language

Bokyoung Kim
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‘A Study on Monolingual Learner’s Dictionary for foreign learners’


Kyeong-Soo Kim
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Naturalizing Strategy in the Translation of Korean Fiction into English: from a pragmatic perspective

Kamila Niekoraniec
Kamila Niekoraniec

Traditional Family Ceremonies in the Royal Court of Confucian Joseon Korea

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Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith

Agency, history, and reality (hyŏnsil) in contemporary Korean literature

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Sarah Son
Sarah Son

South Korean policy for North Korean defectors and nation-building on the Korean peninsula, 1996-2012


Sun Kwan Song
Sun Kwan Song

Late Joseon (16th- 19th century) Intellectual Trends: A New Look at Developments within Neo-Confucianism

Marie-Laure Verdier
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In Good Faith? The South Korean Christian Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in North Korea