Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS: University of London

Our Centre Chair says:

It is my great pleasure and privilege to serve as Chair of the Centre of Korean Studies (CKS) from this year, and to welcome you all to the new academic session.

With a diverse group of students and scholars working on a wide range of topics on Korea at SOAS, our Centre has served as a national and international forum for interdisciplinary exchange among Koreanists. We look forward to continue engaging and collaborating with researchers, centres and institutes to further enhance Korean studies together in the UK, Europe, and beyond.

We have an excellent line-up of speakers for our Friday evening seminar series in 2018/19, so please join our mailing list to receive weekly e-bulletins for event notifications and further information.

I wish to extend a special welcome to our new students, CKS members and Visiting Scholars, and look forward to seeing you at our events this year.

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Facts and figures

17: members of staff, from all the disciplines represented at the School, make up the largest concentration of Korean specialists in Europe.

Teaching

One of two only universities in the UK to offer a BA degree in Korean
Two bursaries for students undertaking a postgraduate Korean Studies programme - currently valued at the UK/EU tuition fees rate up to a maximum of £5,000.
SOAS is ranked 2nd in the UK in the Times & Sunday Times University League Table 2015, 5th in the Complete University Guide 2015 (East & South East Asia)

Research

One of the main activities of the CKS is the ongoing public seminar series. Speakers include researchers, writers, artists and other experts from around the world from diverse fields related to Korea. The seminars are held regularly throughout the academic year.

The SOAS-AKS Working Papers in Korean Studies (II) are an outlet for research-in-progress by European, Korean and Global scholarship. Open to a wide range of contributions in the field of Korean Studies, it is particularly aimed at the dissemination of research that has been conducted or presented under the auspices of the AKS Overseas Leading University programmes in Korean Studies.

View the recent publications by CKS staff members.

The annual review, Korea at SOAS, is produced by the Centre and is published once a year (September). The review reports the activities of the Centre and its member and lists past and forthcoming events in SOAS.

Events

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Fri25Jan

“From the Writing to Speaking Subject: Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Girlhood”

How the girls’ sensibilities and tropes of private ‘writing’ in the former is replaced with the urge and ability to speak in public in the latter

Fri01Feb

Carlo Rossetti's photographs as social and historical narratives about Korea at the beginning of the 20th century

Staging Korea in early XX century : Carlo Rossetti’s photographic collection and its historical narrative

Wed06Feb

In the Absence (2018)

The CKS is honoured to host the first screening of this documentary in the UK. The screening (29mins) will be followed by a Q&A with Producer Gary Byung-seok Kam.