October 6-15, 2006

This program was implemented in Korea for a group of ten participants accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, senior director of Korean studies at The Korea Society, and Mark Peterson, professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University. This year's fall fellows were education specialists from across the sector and across America. They included five textbook editors, two academics, an editorial consultant, a marketing manager and an educational outreach coordinator for a major museum. Beginning in Seoul, the group traveled throughout South Korea, learning (through a hands-on approach) about Korean history and culture, and how both are relevant to their work. The participants arrived at Incheon International Airport on October 6 and spent the afternoon at their hotel with Mark Peterson briefing them on what to expect from their trip. A late afternoon visit to the National Museum was followed by the fellows' first encounter with authentic Korean food at dinner. Fellows spent the first few days of the study tour at the Academy of Korean Studies, attending lectures on Korea's geography and Korean art. Interspersed with the lectures were field trips to Leeum Museum, Kyongbok Palace and King Sejong's tomb in Yoju. The study tour departed Seoul on October 9. Traveling south to Suwon, the fellows visited Samsung Electronics History Hall and spent the night at the Samsung Human Resources Center.  Over the following days, the tour visited the Early Printing Museum in Chongju, the Unmunsa Buddhist nunnery near Taegu and the Haien Buddhist monastery, where the group joined Korean worshippers in a religious ritual and visited the repository of the Tripitaka Koreana. Before arriving back in Seoul on October 14, the fellows also visited Sokkuram, Pulkuk Sa and Yangdong Village.

2006 Fall Fellows:

Steven Davies
Marketing Manager
Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Madison, Wisconsin 

Tracy King
Social Studies Editor
Harcourt School Publishers, Inc.
Orlando, Florida

Laura Lasley
Associate Editor, Social Studies
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Austin, Texas

Jeffrey Levick
Director of External Affairs
Yale University Council on East Asian Studies
New Haven, Connecticut

Grace Massey
Executive Editor
Pearson Prentice Hall
Boston, Massachusetts

Emilie Parker
Coordinator of Teacher Programs
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadephia, Pennsylvania

Anne Ranson
Editor-in-Chief (retired)
Scholastic Library Publishing
Danbury, Connecticut 

Dr. Jonathan Schwartz
Assisant Professor, Department of Political Science
State University of New York at New Platz
New Platz, New York
 
Karen Sparks
Editor, Britannica Book of the Year
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chicago, Illinois

Jim Strickler
Supervising Editor in Social Studies
McDougal Litfell
Evanston, Illinois