Center for Korean Studies@cksuhm

Center for Korean Studies at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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Joined October 2024
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On November 25, 2024 the Consul-General Seo Young Lee visited the CKS. Consul-General Lee discussed with the Director of the CKS Christopher J. Bae about future collaborations between the Consulate and the CKS.
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Byong Won Lee, an Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, has been awarded the 2024 Order of Cultural Merit Okgwan Medal (옥관문화훈장), the fourth-highest order of merit by the President of the Republic of Korea in recognition of his many
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contributions to promoting Korean court music and dance to the international community over the past five decades.
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The Center for Korean Studies presents Book Talk: Find Me as the Creature I Am Date and time: November 14th, 2024, 3 - 5 pm Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
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Joseph Han the author of Nuclear Family (Counterpoint Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Adult Fiction Honor and the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. He is an Editor for the West region of Joyland Magazine, and co-chair
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of the Kundiman Hawaiʻi Regional Group. Han is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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The Center for Korean Studies presents Book Launch: Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader Date and time: November 7th, 2024, 3 - 5 pm Location: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
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inventive and wide-ranging perspectives to show how one band can inspire millions and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life. Two of the book's co-editors, Michelle Cho and Vernadette Gonzalez, and one of its contributors, S. Heijin Lee,
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will discuss the origins and contours of the collection, and their specific contributions to the book.
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Our conference "Hawaii's Archives of the Korean Diaspora" (Oct 30-31, 2024) was nicely reported in Yonhap News (South Korea's biggest news agency). Congrats to the exceptional researchers at the University of Hawaii (Mary Yu Danico, C. Harrison Kim, Sulim Kim, Wonkeun Lee,
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Chiyeon Hwang, and EunBin Seok) and at the National Institute of Korean History (in South Korea) for building on outstanding past research, uncovering previously unfamiliar events, and pushing the boundaries of archival research on the Korean Diaspora in the US. The fascinating
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documents of the Korean Diaspora's active participation in Hawaii's sovereignty movement in the 1970s (class-based solidarity activism) was a wonderful archival discovery, for instance.
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On September 26, the CKS hosted an event that was the inaugural iteration of the Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series that put a spotlight on significant voices in Korean women's literature. #centerforkoreanstudiesuhm #uhmanoa
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Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series This speaker series is dedicated to the celebration of Korean women’s literature and culture. Organized by the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, it features individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field.
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It was made possible thanks to the generous contribution of Esther Arinaga to commemorate her mother, Hee Kyung Lee Kwon. Hee Kyung Lee Kwon was born in Daegu in 1894 and emigrated to Hawai‘i in 1912, where she supported the Korean Independence Movement abroad from 1915 to 1945.
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