History in Literature, Literature as History: 20th Century of Korea, The Korea Society’s new Professional Development conference, explores Korean literature and the history that influences its development. We invite K-12 Educators in the Greater New York Area to this wonderful opportunity to meet top scholars in the field for lectures and discussions of these timely and relevant topics.

Korean Studies Conference

for

K-12 Teachers in the Greater New York Area

Thursday, June 9

9:00AM-3:00PM

Free Event: Early Registration Requested

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Gari Ledyard is King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies and Director Emeritus of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. He is the author of The Dutch Came to Korea (Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), The Korean Language Reform of 1446 (Sin’gu Munhwasa, Seoul, 1998), “Cartography in Korea,” a book-length monograph with over sixty illustrations in The History of Cartography, Vol 2, Part 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1994), and many other monographs, articles, and reviews related to Korean and East Asian history. He was Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1980-1983, and the founder of the Center for Korean Research in 1992. He retired in 2000 but remains active in research and publication.

Jin Young Choi taught at the University of North Carolina for five years before becoming a professor of American literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. She was President of the American Studies Association in 2000. She is a graduate of Seoul National University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Yoonjung Choi is a doctoral candidate in Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include social-studies curriculum, multicultural/global perspectives development, teacher education, and culturally relevant pedagogy. She is currently researching how Korean American social studies teachers and how their personal, social, and cultural experiences shape their curricular and pedagogical decision making. She published a book called The New Understanding of Multicultural Society in 2009, and her journal article “Social Studies Preservice Teachers’ Crosscultural Learning and Global Perspective Development: Crossing Borders Between Korea and the United States” was published for the 54th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. She teaches Korean history and culture at Korean School in New York.