Three awards for Korean language study at a university in Korea were given this year on a competitive basis. In 2007, the scholarships were awarded for summer term study. The benefits of the scholarship include tuition, round-trip airfare to Korea and a stipend to cover basic living expenses.

2007 Scholarship Recipients

Jonson Nathaniel Porter

A second-year doctoral student in the University of Michigan's political science department, Jonson Nathaniel Porter studies the Korean Peninsula in the context of transition politics and economics, as well as Korea's place in the comparative politics and political economy of East Asia. He holds a BA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and has competed in Tae Kwon Do at the national collegiate level.

Michael Price

Michael Price specializes in Korean–American relations as a second-year graduate student in the International Relations and Pacific Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Monica Kim

Monica Kim is a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan's history department. Her dissertation focuses on U.S.-controlled prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War and examines how POWs, military personnel and diplomats struggled to define "prisoner of war" in the context of the early Cold War.

In the Republic of Korea as a Fulbright research fellow, Kim conducted archival research and oral history interviews and works with the Asiatic Research Center at Korea University and the Institute of Korean Studies at Seoul University.