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The Korea Society is pleased to announce its 14th annual Fall Fellowship in Korean Studies program to be held in Korea over the 12 day period of October 16-28, 2009 in collaboration with the Academy of Korean Studies and with the support of a grant from the Freeman Foundation. The objective of the program is to provide a general overview of Korea, past and present. All the expenses of the participants will be covered, including round-trip international airfare, accommodations and meals. Deadline extended to July 5, 2009.
ELIGIBILITY
Applications are invited from American educators who are professionally engaged as textbook writers and editors, and East Asia specialists in higher education who would like to include Korea in their teaching, research or writing. Priority consideration will be given to applicants who are planning to author textbooks on world history or Asian history, those who contribute articles to reference works and those who will be editors of such works.
ACTIVITIES
The program will begin in Seoul with three days of lectures and fieldtrips and continue with a seven-day docent-led tour to major points of interest throughout the southern part of the Korean peninsula. The lectures will be delivered by prominent scholars from leading Korean universities on topics such as language, art, architecture, literature, economics and the politics of a divided country. The field trips during this initial phase of the program will take participants to places of historical and cultural significance in the Seoul area, including royal palaces, the royal ancestral shrine, museums and historical districts. In the second phase of the program, the participants will travel to various points of interest throughout the southern part of the Korean peninsula on an extended docent tour.
Dr. Mark Peterson of Brigham Young University, a distinguished expert on Korean history and culture, will accompany the participants throughout the entire program. He will lecture informally on topics related to Korean history, society and literature as well as the impact of Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity on the Korean people.
APPLICATION
Applicants are requested to submit a completed application packet, including the application form ( download Word .doc file) and supporting documentation, by July 5, 2009 (postmarked) to:
Yong Jin Choi, Senior Director, Korean Studies Program
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor
New York, NY 10022 |
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June 24 - July 10, 2009
Applications due on February 20, 2009 (extended!)
The Korea Society is pleased to announce openings for 20 American educators to participate in the 21st Annual Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies Program. This program is held in Korea with financial support from the Korea Foundation and the Freeman Foundation. All the expenses of the participants will be covered, including round-trip international airfare, accommodations, meals and program fees. We invite applications from social studies and language arts educators, including K-12 classroom teachers, and professors or instructors in schools of education. Administrators, supervisors, specialists and mentors associated with social studies and language arts education with a minimum of three years of experience are also encouraged to apply.
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April 8 - 19, 2009
Applications due on January 12, 2009
The Korea Society is pleased to announce openings for up to 10 American educators to participate in its fifth annual Spring Fellowship in Korean Studies program to be held in Korea from April 8 - 19, 2009.
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October 11 - 22, 2008
Nine education professionals participated in the 13th annual Fall
Fellowship in Korean Studies, conducted in Korea from October 11
through 22. The fellows included three textbook editors, one project
coordinator for East Asia education, one curriculum developer and four
professors of history, Asian culture and art. The group began its study
tour at the Academy of Korean Studies in Seoul (a major supporter of
the fellowship) and was accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, senior director
of Korean studies at The Korea Society; Mark Peterson, professor of
Korean studies at Brigham Young University; and Sharon Park, who led
the group’s fellowship trip.
The fellows attended lectures on Korean art, economics and current
affairs at the Academy and enjoyed local field trips to Myongdong
Catholic Cathedral and Kyongbok Palace. After leaving Seoul, the group
embarked on a six-day tour of major cultural and historical sites
throughout the rest of the country, including first Ch'ongju and its
Early Printing Museum. For the next two days, the participants were
exposed to Buddhism in Korean society through an overnight stay at the
Unmunsa convent outside Taegu. They helped the nuns with their annual
red-pepper harvest, before continuing on to Haeinsa monastery, where
they viewed the ancient wooden blocks used to print the Tripitaka Koreana,
one of the oldest Buddhist texts in the world. A visit to Yangdong Folk
Village, where residents live in the rural, agrarian manner of their
ancestors, helped the participants understand the lasting influence
Confucian values have had on Korean society. The fellows visited the
National Museum of Korea, Sokkuram Grotto and Pulguksa Temple in
Kyongju. A tour of Hyundai's high-tech shipyard gave the participants a
view of Korea's economic history and future. The fellowship concluded
with the fellows returning to Seoul to visit the Leeum Museum and enjoy
a performance at the Seoul Arts Center before returning to the U.S.
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