Category: Fellowships

The Korea Society invites applications from American educators to participate in the ninth annual Spring Fellowship in Korean Studies program, to be held in Korea from March 27– April 7, 2013. The program includes lectures and discussions on topics of current interest, guided tours, and opportunities for on-site study in locales of historic and contemporary relevance in Korea. It is made possible by financial support from the Freeman Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies.

Applicants are requested to submit one copy of the application packet, including the application form and supporting documentation, by February 8, 2013 (postmarked) to:

Yong Jin Choi, Vice President
KOREAN STUDIES PROGRAM
The Korea Society
Eighth Floor
950 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022

CLick here to download the application form.

ELIGIBILITY
Applications are welcomed from anyone who qualifies under one or more of the following criteria:

1) administrators of instructional resources in a state department of education

2) K-12 educators who have enrolled in two or more of the in-service educational programs offered by The Korea Society

3) alumni/ae of The Korea Society’s Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies program, provided they have not visited Korea under the auspices of an organized study tour for at least the last three years. Preference will be given to applicants whose statement of purpose best matches the eligibility criteria for the category in which they are applying. (For details, please refer to the application form.)

For more information, please contact Luz Lanzot or 212-759-7525 ext. 309.

This Spring, The Korea Society will take 10 American educators to Korea for its eighth annual Spring Fellowship in Korean Studies. This expense-paid program will include lectures, guided tours, and opportunities for on-site study in locales of historic and contemporary significance in Korea. This program is made possible through the generous financial support of the Freeman Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies.

Held in Korea June 20-July 5 and July 4-19, 2012

The Korea Society is pleased to announce openings for American educators to participate in the 2012 Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies to be held in Korea in June and July of 2012. The application deadline is January 16, 2012. Fellows participate in a 16-day, expenses-paid study tour of Korea during which they visit a foreign language high school, museums, and sites of historical and cultural interest. Lectures on Korea history, culture, politics, economics, arts, and language are provided by university faculty. This unparalleled learning experience and unique opportunity for extensive travel within Korea is open to social studies professionals, including middle school and high school classroom teachers, administrators, and professors or instructors in schools of education.

Thanks to the generous support of the Korea Foundation, the 2012 program can accommodate American educators in two groups. Three days of the study tour are also sponsored by the Freeman Foundation. Applicants are solely responsible for the cost of domestic airfare to an international airport. 

Preference will be given to applicants who have a demonstrated ability to adapt to new cultural settings and meet the academic demands of an intensive study/travel program. Some prior familiarity with Korean culture and history also is highly desirable.

2011 Fall Fellows:

Heather Blair
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Ela Booty
Executive Editor
National Geographic Learning
Evanston, IL

Elaine Gerbert
Associate Professor
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS

Ingrid Hoogendoom
Senior Editor, Social Studies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers
Boston, MA

Mitchell Lerner
Associate Professor of History/Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Ohio State University Granville, OH

Christopher Rich
Associate Professor of Japanese Language & Culture
Georgetown College
Ibi-gun, Gifu-ken, Japan

Jeremy Strykul
Senior Editor
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers
Orlando, FL

Harold Tanner
Professor
University of North Texas-Department of History
Denton, TX

Eight educators visited Korea accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, Vice President of Korean Studies at The Korea Society, and Mark Peterson, Professor of Korean Studies at Brigham Young University. They were selected from across the professional spectrum, including professors, directors of education, a state-level educational administrator and a secondary school principal. The program included lectures and discussions on topics of current interest, guided tours, and opportunities for on-site study in locales of historic and contemporary relevance in Korea.

2011 Spring Fellows:

Eugene Earsom
Program Director: Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK

Marcia Frost
Associate Professor of Economics
Wittenberg University
Springfield, OH

Stephanie Gandy
Associate Director: Coordinator for Kentucky Geographic Alliance
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

Patricia Holliday
Director-Recruitment, Admissions & HR
The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
Providence, RI

Eliza Kim
Director of Instruction
Bright Star Schools
Los Angeles, CA

Dave Neumann
Site Director: The History Project at CSULB
CSU Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

Erik Vincent
Social Studies Teacher
Dunwoody High School
Dunwoody, GA

Leslie Skinner
Administrator-Social Studies
South Carolina Department of Education

2011 Summer Fellows:

June 23–July 8, 2010 & July 7–22, 2010

Seventy American educators, led by Yong Jin Choi, senior director of Korean Studies at The Korea Society, participated in the 2010 Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies. The seventy participants consisted of sixty-eight 6th–12th-grade social studies teachers, one political science professor, and one professor of curriculum development. The program required extensive background reading as well as attendance at ten seminars that took place at Korea University. Seminars were taught by Korea’s leading scholars on topics such as history, culture, society, art, education, economics, North-South relations, and language. Morning seminars were supplemented with afternoon field trips into Seoul, including visits to Insadong, the DMZ, the National Museum, and Chŏngdong Theater.

The fellows enjoyed interacting with Korean high school students by teaching at Pugil Academy and Daeil Foreign Language High School. The fellowship included a five-day field trip to the southern part of the Korean peninsula, including visits to Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Electronics, the Ch’ŏngju Early Printing Museum, Oksan Confucian Academy, Yangdong Village, Kyŏngju National Museum, Haeinsa, Pulguksa, and Sŏkkuram. The field trip was led by Dr. Mark Peterson, associate professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University, who lectured extensively at each site.

Summer fellow Elizabeth Hals shared her impressions about Korea and the Korean people:

“The country is captivating and the more I have learned about Korea the more I have felt compelled to learn even more! As I strove to learn about the history and culture of the Korean people, I was reassured that a genuine interest in someone’s country, a friendly smile, and the desire to understand, goes a very long way. The Korean people didn’t expect me to know how everything works in their country, but I often found myself comforted by the kindness of strangers when I attempted to understand how everything works. Humbleness can be a beautiful bridge to understand other cultures. I am incredibly grateful and humbled to have been given the opportunity to learn about Korea firsthand so that I could learn for myself that Korea is indeed, an impressively vibrant country full of hard-working, strong, determined, prideful people who have a wonderfully rich past and an incredibly bright future.”