Grant for "Koreans in the World" Project

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The Center for Korean Studies receives grant for "Koreans in the World" project.

CKS receives grant for "Koreans in the World" Project

The Center for Korean Studies is proud to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of the 2023 Strategic Research Institute Program for Korean Studies. Sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies, the award of one billion Korean won (about $750,000) will support the Center’s “Koreans in the World” project over a ten-year period. The award will support faculty and graduate student research, publications, speakers events and conferences, and UCLA’s role as a regional Korean Studies hub.

The “Koreans in the World” project takes comparative and historical views on Korean experiences with interregional, transnational, and globalizing forces. These forces range from various diplomatic systems, world religions, universalizing and modernizing ideologies, imperial and colonial enterprises, and international institutions. The project will examine the concrete and diverse ways that Koreans lived and experienced these globalizing forces. In particular, the project encourages investigations that emphasize vernacular realities over hegemonic narratives, while taking up bottom-up perspectives rather than top-down influences or impositions.

Accompanying this research agenda is a strategic plan for the Center of Korean Studies at UCLA to serve as a Southern Californian gateway to the Pacific Rim. It will underscore Korea’s active and historical ties to Latin America, Southeast Asia, while also nurturing southern California’s connections to Korean studies networks in these regions.

The “Koreans in the World” project is a collaborative research project of UCLA faculty, administered by the Center for Korean Studies. 

• Namhee LEE, Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures & Director, Center for Korean Studies (Project Director)  
• Sixiang WANG, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures (Deputy Project Director & Collaborative Researcher)  
• Kyeyoung R. PARK, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology & Dept. of Asian American Studies (Collaborative Researcher) 
• Ju Hui Judy HAN, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies (Collaborative Researcher)
• Hyun Suk PARK, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures (Collaborative Researcher) 
  
  

AKS Award Number: AKS-2023-SRI-2200001 

Published: Friday, October 28, 2022