AKS Korean Studies Institution Grant (2006-2011)
Final Report
July 2011
Centre of Korean Studies
SOAS
1 Table of Contents
Abstract of Project Results 4
I. Performance Results 6
(1) Project Achievements 6 (2) Details of Project Achievements 7
A. Journal Articles 7 B. Books or textbooks 7 C. Academic Activities 9
II. Final Report 15
(0) Introduction 15
(1) Development of Manpower 15 (1.1) Creation of Lectureship in Korean Art History and Archaeology 15 (1.2) Creation of Research Fellowships 15 (1.3) Research Activities of Staff Appointed under AKS Grant 16 (1.3.1) Dr. Charlotte Horlyck 16 (1.3.2) Dr. Lucien Brown 19 (1.4) Evaluation of this Section of the Project 22
(2) Establishment of a Regular Series of Seminars 22 (2.1) Seminars in 2006-7 (Year 1) 22 (2.2) Seminars in 2007-8 (Year 2) 23 (2.3) Seminars in 2008-9 (Year 3) 24 (2.4) Seminars in 2009-10 (Year 4) 25 (2.5) Seminars in 2010-11 (Year 5) 26 (2.6) Evaluation of this Section of the Project 27
(3) Organization of Conferences 27 (3.1) Modern Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Choson Korea and the West as Reflected in Literature of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” 27 (3.2) “Issues in Korean Linguistics” 28 (3.3) Korea, East Asia and Beyond: Culture and Society in Modern Korea 29 (3.4) The 8th International Conference on Korean Studies 29 (3.5) Korean Studies Publishing in Europe 29 (3.6) European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop 31 (3.7) 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics 31 (3.8) Decorative Arts and Folk Customs of Korea 32 (3.9) Territory, Frontiers and Borders in Korean History 33 (3.10) Modern Encounters and Travel Literature 33
2 (3.11) Conference on “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” 34 (3.12) Korean Court Paintings (09/03/2010) 35 (3.13) European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop 35 (3.14) Historians, Clerks and Accountants: Methodological issues in the use of sources on Chosŏn History 35 (3.15) Korean Buddhists Arts of the Koryŏ and Chosŏn Kingdoms 36 (3.16) Cross-fertilization and Synergy 36 (3.17) Evaluation of this Section of the Project 37
(4) Development of curriculum materials and research publications 37 (4.1) Korean reference grammar book project headed by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon 37 (4.2) Korean (Chosŏn) history book project headed by Dr. Anders Karlsson 39 (4.3) Korean listening book project headed by Jaehee Cho 39 (4.4) “Clean up your Korean” book project headed by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon 40 (4.5) Korean politeness book written by Lucien Brown 41 (4.6) Han Yongun book co-translated by Owen Miller 42 (4.7) Evaluation of this Section of the Project 42
(5) Provision of support for postgraduate students 43 (5.1) SOAS-AKS Bursary 43 (5.2) Evaluation of this Section of the Project
(6) Expand SOAS’s role in the Consortium of Korean Studies Centres 43
(7) Publish papers emerging from the seminars and conferences 44 (7.1) SOAS-AKS online working papers 44 (7.2) Publication of Conference Proceedings 45 (7.2.1) Publication of Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics 45 (7.2.2) Publications from “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology 46 and Practice of Culture Interpretation” Conference (7.2.3) Publication of Selected Papers from EAKLE Workshop 46 (7.3) Evaluation of this Section of the Project 48
(8) Increase and maximize the research activities of staff in the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies 48 (8.1) Prof. Keith Howard (Professor of Music, Centre of Korean Studies) 48 (8.2) Dr. Anders Karlsson (Senior Lecturer in Korean) 53 (8.3) Dr. Grace Koh (Lecturer in Korean Literature) 54 (8.4) Dr. Owen Miller (Research Associate, Centre of Korean Studies) 57 (8.5) Dr. Jaehoon Yeon (Reader in Korean Language and Literature) 59
(9) Conclusion 61
Ⅲ. Participants’ List 63
3 Abstract of Project Results
University SOAS, University of London
Project Director Dr. Jaehoon Yeon In 2006, SOAS, University of London was selected as the first European beneficiary of the AKS Korean Studies Institution Grant programme. The grant has allowed the Centre to significantly expand its manpower and infrastructure, its research programme and its event calendar. Specifically, the grant has produced the following positive results:
(1) SOAS has created one lectureship position in Korean Art History and Archaeology, with Dr. Charlotte Horlyck being appointed to this post. After the end of the grant period, SOAS has guaranteed that the position will be made permanent under SOAS funding. During the grant period, Dr. Horlyck has been extremely active in creating new courses of study, performing state-of-the-art research and organizing conferences under the AKS grant project. The creation of this permanent position, we believe, represents the most important legacy that will be left by the AKS grant. (2) SOAS has also expanded manpower through the creation of one full-time research fellowship and one half-time post. During the course of the grant, the full-time post was held by Dr. Owen Miller and then Dr. Lucien Brown and the half-time post was held by Dr. Stefan Knoob. Over the course of the Institutional Grant programme, Dr. Miller, Dr. Knoob and Dr. Brown have made positive and valuable contributions to teaching, research and the implementation of grant-related projects. (3) SOAS has established a regular series of seminars, which have been delivered primarily by visiting speakers from within Europe (but also speakers from outside the region). During the fellowship, as many as 61 talks were organized. These seminars have lead not only to important collaboration with other important centres of Korean studies, but have also enhanced the research environment for Korean studies in London. (4) Sixteen workshops and conferences have been organized. These have covered a range of fields, including history, literature, linguistics, art and popular culture. Through these events, over 300 scholars have visited SOAS. This has allowed for important academic exchange in various fields of Korean studies and has been important for raising the profile of Korean studies in the UK. (5) Three important books have been published. Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar, authored by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Dr. Lucien Brown and published by Routledge, is an important publication in that it fills the gap felt by many students of Korean and their teachers for a good learner‟s reference grammar. Similarly, Korean Listening Skills, authored by Jaehee Cho and Minam Oh and published by Darakwon represents a much needed resource for listening exercises. In addition, during their periods of employment as research fellows, Dr. Owen Miller co-authored a translation of work by Han Yongun and Dr. Lucien Brown published a monograph on the acquisition of Korean honorifics. Both books were published by prestigious publishers in Europe. (6) SOAS has established support for postgraduate training in Korean studies through the provision of the SOAS-AKS Bursary. This has contributed towards an increase in enrolment in Korea-related MA programs. (7) To provide a long-lasting record of seminars, workshops and conferences held under the
4 institutional grant, we have endeavoured to publish papers presented at these events. To this end, eighteen working papers have been published online and three sets of proceedings have been published in print form. (8) SOAS has extended its role in the consortium of Korean Studies Centres (9) More broadly, the grant has contributed towards an increase in staff research activities. (10) The 5-year grant period has seen a marked increase in student enrolment. The intake of BA students specializing in Korean is now 25-30 per year compared to 8-12 per year 5 years ago. A steady increase in the number of MA students has also taken place, and the MPhil/PhD program remains traditionally strong.
In sum, the AKS grant has been crucial for increasing the manpower, academic programs and research output of Korean studies at SOAS. The grant has heightened the profile of SOAS as one of the leading forces in Korean studies and has also increased the visibility of Korean studies and Korea in the UK and Europe.
5 Ⅰ. Performance Results
1. Project Achievements Classification Original Plan Number of achievements Notes Creation of lectureship in 1 1 Korean Art History *Only two posts were Creation of research 2-3 3 held fellowships simultaneousl y *One book in original plan Books or textbooks not 3 4 published completed; two extra books written Academic activities: *Includes Unspecified 61 Centre Seminars events that had extra Academic activities: funding in Unspecified 16 Workshops/conferences addition to AKS grant *MA Korean Bursaries for postgraduate Unspecified 6 Studies students students 18 working papers published online; Publish papers from Unspecified 3 volumes of conference seminars and conferences proceedings published in print-forms During grant period, staff involved published around Increase research output Unspecified 20 books and over 100 articles
6 2. Details of Project Achievements A. Journal Articles The following is a list of all journal articles published during the grant period that include specific acknowledgment of the AKS grant. Please note that these publications should be considered as additions to the original plan, which did not specifically include the publication of journal articles.
Title of article Journal Author Gold, Glaze and Shimmer –A Gold-decorated Koryo 1 Artibus Asiae Charlotte Horlyck Celadon in the V&A Museum 2 Splendours of Goryeo Metalwork TAASA Review Charlotte Horlyck The Use of Visual/Verbal and Physical Mnemonics Writing Systems 3 in the Teaching of Korean Hangul in an Authentic Lucien Brown Research L2 Classroom Context 4 Contrasts between Japanese and Korean Honorifics Rivista Orientalia Lucien Brown Journal of Politeness and Second Language Learning: The 5 Politeness Lucien Brown Case of Korean Speech Styles Research Questions of Appropriateness and Authenticity in Language, Culture 6 the Representation of Korean Honorifics in Lucien Brown and Curriculum Textbooks for Second Language Learners Observations on Korean and Japanese Speech Style Journal of Korean 7 Lucien Brown Shifting Culture Eoneohag (Journal Coding Conflict or Semantic Contrast?: The 8 of the Linguistic Jaehoon Yeon Grammatical Encoding of the Causee Society of Korea) Was the Korean alphabet a sole invention of King Journal of Korean 9 Jaehoon Yeon Sejong? Culture Han-Geul (Journal Is there ergativity in Korean?: the definition of 10 of the Korean Jaehoon Yeon ergativity and other uses of the term „ergative‟ Language Society)
B. Books or Textbooks (published)
No. 1 Title Author Jaehoon Yeon Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar Lucien Brown Publisher Routledge Relevance to the This book was an integral part of the original project to write a Korean reference grammar. The second author of the book – Dr. Lucien Brown – worked on this Research book during his employment as a research fellow under the institutional grant. Project
7 Notes More details can be found in the report in section II .
No. 2 Title Author Jaehee Cho Korean Listening Skills Minam Oh Publisher Darakwon Relevance to the This book was an integral part of the original project to write a Korean listening Research textbook for language learners Project Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No. 3 Title Author Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Lucien Brown Language Learning Publisher Routledge Relevance to the This book was written by Dr. Lucien Brown during his employment Research under the institutional grant. Project Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No. 4 Title Author Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Vladimir Tikhonov
Darwinism to Socialism with a Buddhist Face Owen Miller Publisher Global Oriental Relevance to the This collection of translations was co-written by Dr. Owen Miller during his Research employment under the institutional grant. Project Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
C. Academic Activities (Fill in only if there are any) No.1 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 2006-2011 Regular Seminars (over 60 in total) SOAS
8 Number of Papers 61 speakers in total Presented During the five years of the institutional grant, 61 speakers were invited from the Relevance UK, Europe and beyond to deliver seminars to the SOAS Korean Studies to the community. Being able to host these regular seminars with the assistance of the institutional grant allowed SOAS to form important academic exchanges with Research other leading Korean studies centres in Europe and beyond. In addition, the Project seminars ensured that students and researchers at SOAS were kept up-to-date with cutting edge research developments. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.2 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Modern Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Choson 25/04/2007 Korea and the West as Reflected in Literature of the 19th SOAS and Early 20th Centuries Number of Papers 8 papers Presented Relevance This workshop was important in terms of the collaboration that it fostered to the between SOAS and BAKS (the British Association for Korean Studies), who Research jointly hosted the event. The workshop was the first to be held under the AKS Project grant that featured invited speakers from AKS, as well as from Korea University. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.3 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 01-02/07/2007 Issues in Korean Linguistics SOAS Number of Papers 16 papers Presented Relevance to the This workshop was jointly hosted by SOAS and Seoul National University under the institutional grant. It thus provided an important platform for leading Research linguists working on Korean from both the UK and Korea to share ideas. Project Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.4 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Korea, East Asia and Beyond: Culture and Society in 26/06/2007
Modern Korea SOAS
9 Number of Papers 8 papers Presented Relevance to the This workshop provided a useful forum for discussion of different aspects of Research Korean modern society and culture. Project Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.5 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 16-17/08/2007 The 8th International Conference on Korean Studies SOAS Number of Papers Around 80 papers Presented This conference was principally organized and funded by the International Relevance Society for Korean Studies (ISKS). However, the increase in manpower and to the other resources brought about by the AKS grant was also important in allowing Research SOAS to host such an event. The conference provided a platform for more than Project 80 scholars from around the world to exchange ideas, including a delegation from North Korea. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.6 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 16/06/2008 Korean Studies Publishing in Europe SOAS Number of Papers 7 speakers Presented This event provided an important forum for discussing what sort of Relevance Korea-related materials are most needed and to examine the problems and to the difficulties that arise in the process of publishing and translating such materials. The workshop also provided a rare opportunity for academics and publishers to Research meet and discuss future projects. A report on the workshop and the Project recommendations arising from it was circulated to interested institutions and publishers in Europe and Korea. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.7 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 2nd European Association for Korean Language 12-13/06/2008
Education Workshop Ankara University
10 Number of Papers 14 speakers Presented This conference was principally organized by the European Association for Relevance Korean Language Education (EAKLE) with funding from the Korea foundation. to the It was joint-hosted by Ankara University and SOAS. However, the increase in manpower and other resources brought about by the AKS grant was also Research important in allowing SOAS to host such an event. The conference was Project important as it was the first such event to be organized directly by EAKLE after the organization was founded during the inaugural workshop one year before. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.8 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 07-09/08/2008 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics Ankara University Number of Papers Around 50 speakers Presented Relevance This conference marked the second meeting of the European Conference on to the Korean Linguistics, first formed in Leiden in 2005. The event attracted around 50 speakers from Europe, Korea, North America and beyond. The papers Research presented in this conference were later published by Lincom, thus greatly Project increasing the visibility of Korean linguistics in Europe. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.9 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 24/02/2009 Decorative Arts and Folk Customs of Korea (24/02/2009) SOAS Number of Papers 5 papers Presented Relevance This workshop invited renowned speakers from Korea and the USA and also to the included a visit to the British museum. The workshop was important for the way that it focused on how commoners of the late Chosŏn period lived and the art Research they made – areas which are often overshadowed by the concentration on elite Project arts and culture of this time.
No.10 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Territory, Frontiers and Borders in Korean History 22/05/2009
11 SOAS Number of Papers 7 speakers Presented Relevance This 1-day workshop featured invited speakers from Korea and Europe. The to the workshop discussed the extent of territory and actual borders in Korean history, and also discussed notions on territory, frontiers and borders at various points of Research time in Korean history. The workshop was of particular relevance given recent Project conflicts and controversies such as those over Dokdo or Gando. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.11 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Modern Encounters and Travel Literature: Accounts by 15/06/2009 Contiguity, Firsthand Accounts, and Mutual Perceptions SOAS of Chŏson Korea and the West Number of Papers 16 speakers Presented This was the second workshop held during the grant period on the topic of travel Relevance literature. As in the previous event, the workshop featured invited speakers from to the AKS and Korea University. On this occasion, literature specialists from SOAS working on literature from other geographic areas were invited to act as Research discussants. This allowed for important inter-regional collaboration and provided Project an important forum for addressing critical issues surrounding cultural encounters from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives . Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.12 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 15/06/2009 National Taras China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Shevchenko Culture Interpretation University in Kiev (Ukraine) Number of Papers 13 speakers (on Korean studies); 40 speakers in total Presented SOAS were official co-organizers of the first “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” conference held at the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev (Ukraine). This conference was
particularly meaningful as it was the first ever international Asian studies conference to be held in the Ukraine. Thanks to the participation of SOAS, we were able to greatly increase the visibility of Korean studies in the Ukraine.
12 Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.13 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place 09/03/2010 Korean Court Paintings SOAS Number of Papers 4 speakers Presented This one-day workshop saw four leading Korean scholars (including three from Relevance AKS) present their research on Korean court paintings. In addition to promoting to the academic exchange with AKS, the workshop also involved important Research collaboration with the British museum, who hosted an object viewing session at Project the museum. The workshop was attended by more than 70 people, showing an obvious increase in interest in Korean arts and culture. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.14 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place European Association for Korean Language Education 09-10/04/2010
Workshop SOAS Number of Papers 25 speakers Presented This workshop was principally organized by the European Association for Relevance Korean Language Education (EAKLE) with funding from the Korea foundation. to the However, the increase in manpower and other resources brought about by the Research AKS grant was also important in allowing SOAS to host this event. The Project workshop was attended by 58 Korean language teachers from 17 European countries. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.15 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Historians, Clerks and Accountants: Methodological 21/05/2010
issues in the use of sources on Chosŏn History SOAS Number of Papers 6 speakers Presented Relevance This one-day workshop provided a platform for discussing the character of to the various Chosŏn-period historical sources in a comparative perspective and address problems confronting researchers analyzing them. The workshop Research included contributions from three leading scholars from Korea and two more Project from elsewhere in Europe. The workshop extended the strong research program
13 in Chosŏn-period history emerging at SOAS. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.16 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Korean Buddhists Arts of the Koryŏ and Chosŏn 19/05/2011
Kingdoms SOAS Number of Papers 3 speakers Presented Relevance This workshop was the third Korean art event organized under the AKS grant to the that involved a viewing session at the British museum. The event contributed to the ongoing collaboration between SOAS, the British museum and leading Research scholars from Korea and beyond which has been made possible through the Project provision of the AKS grant. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
No.17 Name of seminar (or conference) Date and Place Seventh Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies 06-08/06/2011
Centers Workshop SOAS Number of Papers 20 speakers Presented Relevance One of the goals during the grant period was to extend the role of SOAS in the to the Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies. The fulfilment of this goal was Research capped by SOAS hosting the latest Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Project workshop in June 2011. Notes More details can be found in the report in section II
14 Ⅱ. Final Report
(0) Introduction The original project application filed by the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS for the Academy of Korean Studies Institution Grant in 2006 contained eight objectives: (1) Develop research manpower through the creation of one lectureship in Korean Art History and Archaeology and two/three research fellowships. (2) Establish a regular series of seminars delivered by visiting speakers from within Europe and promote cooperation with European partners (3) Organize regular workshops/conferences involving speakers from AKS and/or other institutions in Korea (4) Develop curriculum materials and research publications, including a Chosŏn history textbook, a Korean comprehensive grammar for language learners and a Korean listening textbook (5) Establish support for postgraduate training in Korean studies (6) Expand SOAS‟s role in the consortium of Korean Studies Centres (7) Publish papers emerging from the seminars and conferences detailed in (2) and (3) (8) More broadly, we aimed to increase and maximize the research activities of staff in the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies
The current report evaluates in turn the extent to which we at SOAS have achieved the objectives outlined above.
(1) Development of Manpower This section will assess the success of the project in creating a lectureship in Korean Art History and Archaeology (Section 1.1) and establishing research fellow positions (Section 1.2). In Section 1.3, we report the research activities of the academics appointed to these positions. Finally, in Section 1.4, we assess and comment on the overall success of this part of the project.
(1.1) Creation of Lectureship in Korean Art History and Archaeology In 2006 SOAS appointed Dr. Charlotte Horlyck to the newly created lecture post in Korean Art History and Archaeology. Under the terms of the appointment, SOAS has guaranteed that the position will be made permanent under SOAS funding at the end of a 5-year period (i.e. from September 2011). As will be seen in the report below (see Section 1.3), Dr. Horlyck has been extremely active in creating new courses of study, performing state-of-the-art research and organizing conferences under the AKS grant project.
(1.2) Creation of Research Fellowships With the support of the AKS grant, the Centre initially appointed Dr. Owen Miller (a researcher in Chosŏn economic history) as full-time research fellow and Dr. Stefan Knoob (a Korean cognitive linguist) as half-time research fellow. In 2008, with Dr. Miller leaving to take up a position at Cambridge University, Dr. Lucien Brown (who researches Korean applied linguistics) was appointed to the full-time post. In 2009, Dr. Knoob also left to take up further employment. Due to a lack of funds created by the disadvantageous exchange rate and the increasing cost of staff salaries, it was not possible to appoint a successor to Dr. Knoob and thus the part-time post was discontinued. Over the course of the Institutional Grant programme, Dr. Miller, Dr. Knoob and Dr. Brown have made positive and valuable contributions to teaching, research and the implementation of grant-related projects.
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(1.3) Research Activities of Staff Appointed under AKS Grant The current section contains activities reports for the staff currently employed under the AKS grant, i.e. Dr. Horlyck and Dr. Brown. Reports for other staff members in the Centre can be found in section 8.
(1.3.1) Dr. Charlotte Horlyck In January 2006 Dr Charlotte Horlyck was appointed Research Associate in the Centre of Korean Studies, and in September 2006 she took up her present post as lecturer of Korean Art History. During the four and a half years she has been in employment at SOAS, she has been actively engaged in research, teaching and fund-raising activities. Dr Horlyck‟s main areas of research are arts of the Goryeo period (in particular metalwares), Goryeo funerary customs and the collecting of Korean arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, on which she publishes and gives talks at conferences and other forum. Many of her research activities have involved close collaboration with colleagues based in South Korea. Her forthcoming article on a rare Goryeo celadon bowl, for example, incorporates research conducted with curators at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul. She also collaborates with Korean studies scholars in the US and Europe. Her forthcoming book manuscript Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times is co-edited with Dr Michael Pettid, a Korean studies scholar at SUNY Binghampton. Her commitment to research through engagement with the global academic community is further reflected in the talks she has presented at conferences, workshops and other forum in Korea, the US and Europe. Throughout her career she has been closely involved with the Korea academic community and frequently undertakes research trips to Korea (between 2007 and 2011 she made ten trips to Seoul), and in 2010 she was awarded a 6-month Korea Foundation Fellowship enabling her to undertake extended research in Korea. Her research activities have also involved media work. Between 2008 and 2010 she acted as expert advisor on a documentary titled „Arch of Enlightenment.‟ Produced by WestPark Pictures, it was funded by the Prince‟s Trust and Samsung. As an extension of her educational collaborations, and as a means to foster interest in Korean studies, she has initiated and organised three workshops on Korean arts and culture. Hosted at SOAS and funded by CKS/AKS, the workshops covered the following themes: Korean decorative arts (2009), Korean court painting (2010) and Korean Buddhist arts (2010). Since taking up her post as lecturer in 2007, she has initiated and convened three new MA courses, and four new BA courses, all covering different aspects of Korean arts and culture. Her student numbers have steadily increased, numbering now more than 20 students at undergraduate level. She supervises three PhD students in the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, one student at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, and one student at the London Consortium. As a means to raise the profile of the Centre of Korean Studies, she frequently gives television and newspaper interviews (in 2010 newspaper articles on her were published in Yonhap News and the Hanguk Ilbo). She also initiated the SOAS/Centre of Korean Studies Review which is published annually.
Publications (2007-2011)
Book manuscripts, chapters in books and articles
16 2011(forthcoming) “Gold, Glaze and Shimmer –A Gold-decorated Koryo Celadon in the V&A Museum,” Artibus Asiae (peer reviewed, AKS acknowledged) 2011 (forthcoming) Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times. Horlyck, C and Pettid, M. (eds). Hawaii University Press, (manuscript currently under review) (AKS acknowledged) 2011 (forthcoming) “Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times (AD918-1392)” (10,000 words) in Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times. Horlyck, C and Pettid, M. (eds). Hawaii University Press (AKS acknowledged). 2011 (in press) „Splendours of Goryeo Metalwork,‟ TAASA Review, vol. 20, no. 2, September (AKS acknowledged) 2011 (in press) “Questioning the role(s) of Chinese mirrors in early Korea”, in (ed.) Lothar von Falkenhausen, Bronze Mirrors in the Cotsen Collection, Cotsen Archaeological Press (peer reviewed, AKS acknowledged) 2011 (in press) “An inlaid mirror in the Cotsen collection”, in (ed.) Lothar von Falkenhausen, Bronze Mirrors in the Cotsen Collection, Cotsen Archaeological Press (peer reviewed, AKS acknowledged) 2010 “Goryeo Metalwork in the British Museum,” in Orientations, November/December, pp. 69-72. 2008/9 “Burial Offerings to Objects d‟Art: Celadon Wares of the Koryo Kingdom (AD918-1392),” in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 73, pp.79-89. 2008 „Confucian Burial Practices in the Late Goryeo and Early Joseon Periods‟, in The Review of Korean Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 33-58.2008 „Looking at the Overlooked: Art by Women and for Women in Pre-Modern Korea‟, in Chinn, Lori (et al), The Offering Table. Women Activist Artists from Korea, Mills College Art Museum, 43-50. 2008 „Meaningful Commodities – Mirrors, Merchandise and Market Policies in the Koryŏ Period‟, in International Society for Korean Studies, vol. 12, 239-257. 2007 „Kkoktu – Guides, Guardians and Keepers of the Soul‟, in (ed.) Carriere Frederick, Korean Funerary Figures. Companions to the Journey to the Other World, The Korea Society, New York, 227-230.
Web-publication Nov. 2010: “On Celadon Wares of the Goryeo Dynasty” http://www.koreabrand.net/kr/know/know_view.do?CATE_CD=0005&SEQ=1208&pageIndex=1
Editorial Collaborations: 2011 English catalogue Buyeo National Museum. Published by Buyeo National Museum 국립부여박물관. 2010 English catalogue National Palace Museum of Korea 50 Highlights. Published by the National Palace Museum of Korea 국립고궁박물관, Seoul. 2008 The International Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology, vol. 2. Published by the National Museum of Korea 국립중앙박물관, Seoul. 2008 English panel and object label texts for exhibition and exhibition catalogue The Finishing Touch: Work of the Brush and Their Mounting. Published by the National Palace Museum of Korea 국립고궁박물관, Seoul.
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Conference papers and invited talks (2007-2011) April 2011 „The Collecting and Display of Korean Arts and Crafts in the UK,‟ conference paper presented at the Yeongweol-Yonsei International Forum, Yeongweol. February 2011 „Priests, potters and politicians – a discussion on the collecting of Korean arts in the late 19th and early 20th century,‟ invited special lecture presented for the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, Seoul. December 2010 Discussant at Korea Foundation Public Diplomacy Symposium titled Public Diplomacy in Korea-U.S. Relations, Co-hosted by The Jeju Peace Institute, The Korea Foundation and the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. December 2010 „Arts, politics and heritage in late 19th and early 20th century Korea – a discussion on the formation of Korean collections of art in the UK and Germany‟,” invited special lecture presented at Inha University, Centre of Korean Studies, 인하대 한국학연구소. November 2010 „A Discourse on Korean Cultural Heritage in European Collections‟ (유럽에 있는한국 미술품들), invited special lecture presented at Korea Culture Research Institute, Ewha Woman’s Universty (이화여대 한국문화원, 제 13 회 해외학자 초청강연회). This lecture was filmed for the Ewha Woman‟s University website, as well as for Ewha Woman‟s University Broadcasting Network. October 2010 „From Celadon Ceramic Wares to Buddhist Paintings – Arts of the Goryeo Kingdom (AD918-1392),‟ invited special lecture presented at the Korea Foundation 2010 Open Lectures on Korean Culture for Foreigners. This lecture was filmed for the Korea Foundation website. October 2010 „A Discourse on Korean Cultural Heritage in European Collections,‟ invited special lecture presented at the Korean National University of Cultural Heritage (한국전통문화학교, 제 1 차 문화재관리학과 특강). July 2010 Panel chair at the 6th International Workshop on Korean Studies (세계 한국연구 컨소시엄), Yonsei University. July 2010 „Discussion of the Past, Present and Future of Korean Art in the UK,‟ invited special lecture presented at the Centre for International Studies, Korea University (고려대학교 국제하계대학, 한국사학과). June 2010 Panel chair of session on cultural heritage in Korea, at a workshop titled „Cultural Heritage? In East Asia,‟ Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and UEA School of World Art Studies and Museology, Norwich. November 2009 „Questioning the role(s) of Chinese mirrors in early Korea‟, paper presented at symposium „Beyond the Surface: Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection in Context‟, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles June 2009 „The Spread and Assimilation of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in Early Korean Society,‟ conference paper presented at AKSE (Association for Korean Studies in Europe) in Leiden, Holland. May 2009 „A Gilded Celadon Stand from the Koryŏ period in the V&A Museum‟, invited lecture for the Oriental Ceramic Society in London.
18 March 2009 „Looking at the Overlooked – Questioning women‟s place in the canon of Korean art history‟, conference paper presented at AAS (Association of Asian Studies Conference), Chicago, US. February 2009 „Korean Symbols of Precedence. Visual Displays of Social Rank in Joseon Korea (1392-1910 AD)‟, invited lecture presented for CUHAGS (Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society), Cambridge University. January 2009 „Happy Souls and Anxious Mourners: The Uses of Funeral Figures in Pre-Modern Korea‟, invited lecture given at the Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, USA. November 2008 „The Role of the Museum Curator and the Education of Korean Arts Abroad‟, invited special lecture presented at a forum on the Education of Art Specialists organised by the Korean Arts and Education Service (KACES), Seoul. September 2008 „The Female Artist – A Pre-Modern Paradox?‟, conference paper at a symposium titled Placed at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics organised by Mills College and UC Berkeley. August 2008 „Current and Future State of Korean Art History Studies in Europe and the US‟ paper presented at a workshop on the Field of Korean Studies in Europe organised by ICKS (International Centre for Korean Studies), Korea University. June 2008 „On publishing on Korean art history‟ paper presented at SOAS/Centre of Korean Studies workshop on publishing Korea-related material. June 2008 „Questioning methods of interment in the Koryŏ period‟, invited special lecture presented for the Korean Studies Dept, EPEL programme at Paris 7 University, Paris, France. April 2008 „Problems in analysing medieval Korean burials‟, invited special lecture presented at Bristol University archaeological Society, UK. April 2008 „Confucian burial practices in the late Koryo period‟, conference paper presented in a panel I organised titled 'Continuation and Change in Koryŏ and Chosŏn', AAS (Association of Asian Studies Conference), Atlanta, US. November 2007 „Happy Souls and Anxious Mourners – A discussion of Korean funeral figurines‟, invited special lecture for Korea Society, New York, US.
(1.3.2) Dr. Lucien Brown Dr. Lucien Brown completed his PhD at SOAS in 2008 in Korean language research with a dissertation entitled “The Korean Honorifics System and Politeness in Second Language Learning”. From 2008 to 2011, he has been employed in the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS under the AKS grant as a research fellow. In this capacity, he has been working on the reference grammar book project with Dr. Jaehoon Yeon. The book – entitled Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar – was published by Routledge in January 2011 (see section 4.1). With this project complete, Dr. Brown and Dr. Yeon have been working on a new book project titled Clean up your Korean: Strategies for Avoiding Common Errors. During the grant period, Dr. Brown has also produced a number of other important publications. Most notably, his book Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning was published by John Benjamins in April 2011. He has also published a number of other book chapters and journal articles and given talks at numerous conferences.
Books (both containing acknowledgment of AKS grant)
19 (2011) with Yeon, Jaehoon. Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. (2011) Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles and book chapters (containing acknowledgment of AKS grant) (2011, in press). The Use of Visual/Verbal and Physical Mnemonics in the Teaching of Korean Hangul in an Authentic L2 Classroom Context. Writing Systems Research. (2010). Contrasts between Japanese and Korean Honorifics. Rivista Orientalia. (2010). Politeness and Second Language Learning: The Case of Korean Speech Styles. Journal of Politeness Research 6(2), 243-270. (2010). Questions of Appropriateness and Authenticity in the Representation of Korean Honorifics in Textbooks for Second Language Learners. Language, Culture and Curriculum 23(1), 35-50. (2010). Use of Referent Honorific Lexical Substitutions by Korean University Students. In Jaehoon Yeon & Jieun Kaier, Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics. Munich: Lincom Europa. (2010). Observations on Korean and Japanese Speech Style Shifting. Journal of Korean Culture 14, 65-102. (2010). Speech Style Shifting in Korean and Japanese. In Lucien Brown, Andrii Ryzhkov and Yuliya Osadcha (eds), China, Korea, Japan: methodology and practice of culture interpretation, 69-80. Seoul: Korea University BK21 Education.
Articles and book chapters (without acknowledgment of AKS) (2011). with Yeon Jaehoon. Hangukǒ “-ko issta”-ŭi sŭptŭk kwajǒng (Acquisition of progressive “-ko issta” in Korean. In Jaehoon Yeon, Yurŏp hangukǒ kyoyuk-ŭi hyŏnhwang-kwa chaengchŏm (Current Issues in Korean Language Education in Europe), 24-37. Seoul: Pagijong. (2011). Hwayongnon-kwa hangukǒ kyoyuk (Pragmatics and Korean language education). In Jaehoon Yeon, Yurŏp hangukǒ kyoyuk-ŭi hyŏnhwang-kwa chaengchŏm (Current Issues in Korean Language Education in Europe), 135-155. Seoul: Pagijong. (2011). Korean Honorifics and „Revealed‟, „Ignored‟ and „Suppressed‟ Aspects of Korean Culture and Politeness. In Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), Politeness across Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. (2010). with Yeon, Jaehoon. Hangukǒ haksŭpcha-dŭl-ŭi tongsa sijesang sŭptŭk yangsang-e taehan silhǒmjǒk yǒngu: Chinhaenghyǒng “-ko issta”-rŭl chungshim-ŭro [Experimental Research into the Phases of Acquisition of Korean Tense-Aspect: Focusing on the Progressive Marker “-ko issta”]. Journal of Korean Language Education 21(1): 151-174. (2010). with Yeon Jaehoon. Acquisition Studies on Relative Clauses and their relevance to Korean Language Education. In Lee Sang-oak (ed.), Contemporary Korean Linguistics: International Perspectives. Seoul: Thaehaksa. (2010). “Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic Honorifics Use and Impoliteness in Korean TV Dramas. In Codruta Cuc (ed.), Proceedings of 7th Korean Studies Graduate Students‟ Convention in Europe. Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Casa Cartii. (2010). Review of Colloquial Korean. Bulletin of SOAS 72/3, 34-36. (2008). “Normative” and “Strategic” Honorifics Use in Interactions Involving Speakers of Korean as a Second Language. Archiv Orientalni 76: 269-297. (2008). The honorifics systems of Korean language learners. Kukche Koryǒhak 12: 59-90. (2008). The honorifics systems of Korean language learners. SOAS/AKS Working Papers in
20 Korean Studies 2. (2008). with Jaehoon Yeon. Korean Phrasebook. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap.
Selected Presentations and Talks November 2010. Teaching Non-Honorific Speech Styles in Korean. International Symposium on Benchmarking of Asian and African Language Learning and Teaching, and Training and Professional Development of Teachers, SOAS, London, UK. October 2010. with Noriko Iwasaki. A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Speakers' Production of Mimetic Words. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Oxford, UK. October 2010. Sarcastic Honorifics Use and Impoliteness in Korean TV Dramas. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt. July 2010. “Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic Honorifics Use and Impoliteness in Korean TV Dramas. Korean Studies Graduate Students‟ Convention in Europe, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. April 2010. with Jaehoon Yeon. Hangukǒ chinhaenghyǒng “-ko issta”-ui sŭptŭk kwajǒng [The pattern of acquisition of the Korean progressive tense]. European Association for Korean Language Education, SOAS, London, UK. March 2010. with Noriko Iwasaki. The Acquisition of Korean Particles by Japanese and English Speakers: The Role of L1 Transfer. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, USA. February 2010. The Acquisition of Korean Honorifics by Second Language Learners. East Asian Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, UK. October 2009. Speech Style Shifting in Korean and Japanese. China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation, Kiev, Ukraine. August 2009. with Jaehoon Yeon. Hangukǒ haksŭpcha-dŭl-ŭi tongsa sijesang sŭptŭk yangsang-e taehan silhǒmjǒk yǒngu: Chinhaenghyǒng “-ko issta”-rŭl chungshim-ŭro [Experimental Research into the Phases of Acquisition of Korean Tense-Aspect: Focusing on the Progressive Marker “-ko issta”]. International Association for Korean Language Education, Seoul, Korea. August 2009. Using Mnemonics to Teach Hangul to Second Language Learners. Korean Studies Graduate Students‟ Convention in Europe, Moscow, Russia. July 2009. I don‟t want to be disrespectful”: Ideology regarding politeness and the use of Korean speech styles by second language speakers. Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia. June 2009. Teaching Scripts: Using Mnemonics and Authentic Materials. Teaching Less Widely Used and Less Taught Languages, CILT (The National Centre for Languages), London, UK. April 2009. Korean Honorifics and Impoliteness. Association of Korean Studies in Europe, Leiden, The Netherlands. November 2008. Approaches to the teaching of Hangul. Perspectives on Script. UCL, London, UK. August 2008. A Comparison of the Honorifics Systems of Native and Non-Native Speakers of Korean. Korean Studies Graduate Students‟ Convention in Europe, Leiden, The Netherlands. August 2008. Use of Referent Honorific Lexical Substitutions by Korean University Students. European Conference on Korean Linguistics, SOAS, London, UK. August 2008. Korean Honorifics: Their Form and Social Usage. Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK. June 2008. Pragmatics and Korean Language Education. European Association for Korean Language Education, Ankara University, Turkey. April 2008. Contrasts between Japanese and Korean Honorifics. Comparative Studies of Korean
21 and Japanese, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. August 2007. The Honorifics Systems of Korean Language Learners. ISKS International Conference on Korean Studies, SOAS, London, UK. [Paper delivered in Korean]. July 2007. Alternation between “Polite” and “Deferential” Speech Styles in Korean Public Discourse, International Pragmatics Conference, Gŏteborg, Sweden. April 2007. It‟s not all about “Power” and “Solidarity”: Searching for Alternative Theories behind Speech Style Variation in Korean. Association of Korean Studies in Europe, Paris, France. April 2007. Korean Speech Style Usage in L2 Talk and Politeness Ideology. Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, University of Hawaii, USA.
(1.4) Evaluation of this Section of the Project The goal of this part of the project has been achieved in full. The Centre has successfully increased manpower through the creation of a lectureship and two research fellowships, as originally planned. The staff appointed to these positions have also made valuable contributions to the research activities of the Centre. The only problem encountered in implementing this part of the project is that due to an unfavourable exchange rate coupled with the rising cost of staff salary, it was not possible to maintain the half-time research fellow post for the full duration of the grant period. Nonetheless, we believe that this part of the project can be evaluated as a large success. The creation of the lectureship in particular represents the most important legacy that will be left by the AKS grant.
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(2) Establishment of a Regular Series of Seminars An important goal during the grant period was to increase the number of seminars featuring invited speakers in the Centre of Korean Studies. A focus was placed on inviting speakers from within Europe, although we were also fortunate enough to be visited by speakers from Korea, Japan, the USA, Canada, Australia, China and New Zealand. In this section, an overview is provided of all seminars hosted under the AKS grant, divided according to the year (i.e. 2006-7, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11) (Sections 2.1-2.5) In Section 2.7, we assess the effectiveness of this part of the project.
(2.1) Seminars in 2006-7 (Year 1)
Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title 24/10/2006 Prof. Moon Chung-in Yonsei Nukes, missiles, and prospects for University peace on the Korean peninsula
17/11/2006 Dr. Gabriel Jonsson Stockholm Towards Korean reconciliation: University Socio-cultural exchanges and cooperation 24/11/2006 Dr. Remco Breuker Leiden Landscape out of time: University „De-chronicling‟ the landscape and landscaping the past in medieval Korea 08/12/2006 Dr Koen de Ceuster Leiden But is it art? Musings about North University Korean art and perceptions of it 12/01/2007 Prof. Vladimir Oslo University Militarism and anti-militarism in
22 Tikhonov contemporary South Korea 19/01/2007 Dr Yannick Bruneton University of Epigraphy of the Koryo Period: Paris VII Characteristics of the Corpus and Questions for Historians 23/02/2007 Prof. Antonetta Bruno Rome – La Loanwords in Korean novel at the Sapienza beginning of the twentieth century 02/03/2007 Prof. Marion Eggert Ruhr-Univerität Geomancy (p’ungsu/feng shui) in Bochum Chosŏn Korea 08/03/2007 Prof. Song Jaemog Osaka Direct knowledge evidentials and University of person in Korean Economics and Law 08/03/2007 Prof. Ebru Türker Pittsburgh Locative Expressions in Korean and University Turkish: A cognitive grammar approach 16/03/2007 Dr. Sonja Haussler Hamburg Korean women‟s writings in the genre University of Kyubang kasa in the past and present 02/05/2007 David Chung Film director Koryo Saram: UK film premiere
(2.2) Seminars in 2007-8 (Year 2)
Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title 02/11/2007 Dr. Akira Utsugi University of Tone and intonation in Seoul and Edinburgh Gyeongsang Korean 16/11/2007 Dr. Janet Poole University of Unruly Detail: Writing, Photography Toronto / SOAS and Crisis in Late Colonial Korea 23/11/2007 Dr. Joerg Plassen Ruhr-Universität Literati Sŏn and Buddhist Bochum Neo-Confucianism: Hybrid tendencies in the intellectual life of the Early Chosŏn period, focusing on Kim Sisŭp alias Sŏlcham 30/11/2007 Andrew Logie digital Contemporary Tradition: a showing of cinematographer p‟ansori and instrumental performances and researcher filmed in Korea this year” 05/11/2007 Dr. Leonid Petrov Australian North Korea: a Regional Troublemaker National or a Land of Opportunities? University 18/01/2008 Dr. Staffan Rosen Stockholm Merit and Reward - The Imperial University Korean System of Decorations 1900-1910 in an International Perspective 25/01/2008 Dr. Valerie Gelezeau EHESS Landscapes of power in Seoul - Apartment complexes and the modernization of the South Korean city
23 31/01/2008 Dr. Carl Saxer Copenhagen The Return of the Regions or the Rise Business School of Seoul? Observations on the Recent Presidential Election in South Korea 01/02/2008 Paul French Author of North Paradise Lost: From Chollima Speed to Korea: The Slow Motion Famine – How North Paranoid Korea Got Where it is Today Peninsula 08/02/2008 Dr. Gina Barnes SOAS Cross-straits relations between Korea and Japan in the mid-4th to 5th centuries 22/02/2008 Dr. Vladimir Tikhonov Oslo University To beat or not to beat: discussions on pedagogical ideals, corporal punishment and military training in colonial Korea 07/03/2008 Dr. Kevin Gray University of Democracy, Neoliberalism and the Sussex Crisis of the Korean Labour Movement 15/04/2008 Dr. Chang Hyo-Hyun Korea On the English Translation of the University classical Korean novel Kuunmong (Nine Cloud Dream)
(2.3) Seminars in 2008-9 (Year 3)
Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title 17/10/2008 Prof. Rüdiger Frank University of Transformation of State Socialism in Vienna East Asia: The case of North Korea 31/10/2008 Dr. Catherine H Yoon University of Older People in Advertising: UK/South East London Korean Comparison 14/11/2008 Dr. Choon Key Chekar CESAGEN, A very Korean scandal?: Inconsistency Cardiff in cultural explanations for „ova University donation campaign‟ 28/11/2008 Dr. James Lewis University of Korean merchant double-entry accounts Oxford from Kaesŏng city (1786-1947): Do these prove the existence of capitalism in pre-modern Korea? 05/12/2008 Prof. Kim Shin Dong Sciences Po Contemporary Korean popular culture (Paris) 16/01/2009 Nick Bonner Filmmaker and Filming North Korea founder of Koryo Tours 06/02/2009 Dr. Jo Elfving-Hwang Leeds The Trancendental Feminine: rewriting University cultural representations of femininity in Chon Kyongnin's fiction 06/03/2009 Dr. Kim Daeyeol INALCO A Confucian moral practice in 19th (Paris) Century Korea: Relation between personal moral cultivation and politics by Chong Yagyong (1762-1836) 19/03/2009 Prof. Nam-lin Hur The University Military Duty in Late Sixteenth-Century of British Choson Korea: A System for Everything
24 Columbia but Defense? 20/03/2009 Dr Howard Reid West Park The History of Kwanghwamun: the Pictures Ltd several births, deaths and rebirths of a national cultural icon 01/05/2009 Prof. Young Kim SOAS / Inha Self-imposed poverty in Korean and University Chinese allegorical tales 08/05/2009 Prof. SeonMee Kim Sunchon Multicultural Education in Korea: National Current State, Focus and Problems University 15/05/2009 Prof. HyunSoo Kim SOAS / Interrelation between British Fleet's Dankook Withdrawal from Port Hamilton University (Kŏmundo) and the British Foreign Policy: The Li-Ladygensky Joint Agreement of 1886
(2.4) Seminars in 2009-10 (Year 4)
Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title 16/10/2009 Dr. James Hoare SOAS The Other Korea: North Korea in pictures 23/10/2009 Dr. Jiyoung Song Cambridge "Our style" human rights of the University Democratic People's Republic of Korea 06/11/2009 Dr. Stephen Epstein Victoria “Asia! Asia!” – South Korean Popular University of Culture and “Asia” in the New Wellington Millennium 20/11/2009 Dr. Martine Robbeets University of Korean and the Transeurasian Mainz languages: similarities that make a difference 27/11/2009 Prof. Wookhee Shin Seoul National US-North Korean Relations and the University Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry 4/12/2009 Dr. Michael Shin Cambridge Melodrama of the Modern Girl: The University Novel Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu (1924-25) 15/01/2010 Prof. Sang-Hie Han Konkuk Tradition or Treason? History and the University Korean Constitutional Court 22/01/2010 Warwick Morris Former UK A Witness to Change: Three Decades of Ambassador to Korea-watching ROK 29/01/2010 Jung-Shim Lee Leiden Han Yongun's posthumous novel University Death: Questioning a monk's nation-building project 05/02/2010 Dr. Isabelle Sancho EHESS A glimpse of Confucian scholar‟s intimacy: the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584) 12/02/2010 Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka Leiden Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: University Food in 20th Century Korea
25 19/03/2010 Dr. Aino Rinhaug University of Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Oslo Migration, Exile and Transversality 14/05/2010 Prof. Youngsoo Yook Leiden Historiography and the Transformation University/AKS of North Korea‟s Ideology from the Cold War Era to the Age of Globalization
(2.5) Seminars in 2010-11 (Year 5)
Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title 15/10/2009 Dr. Andreas Ruhr-Universität “Reevaluation of the Introduction and Mueller-Lee Bochum Early Circulation of Catholicism and Western Learning in Late Choson Korea” 22/10/2010 Dr. Iain Pirie The University of ”The New Korean Political Economy: Warwick Beyond the Models of Capitalism Debate” 29/10/2010 Dr. Vladimir Tikhonov Oslo University “Race and Racism in Modern Korea” 19/11/2010 Aidan Foster-Carter & Leeds University / “Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The Art of Dr. Kate Hext University of the Engaging North Korea” West of England 03/12/2010 Dr. Jung Won Min SOAS/AKS Legal Status and Protection of North Korean Defectors in China 21/01/2011 Prof. Hazel Smith Cranfield The political economy of poverty in the University DPRK 11/03/2011 Dr. Jieun Kiaer University of Pragmatically-motivated Syntax: the Oxford case of Korean 18/03/2011 Dr. Lucas Pokorny Aberdeen Millenarianism and the Pursuit of University World Peace 06/05/2011 Dr. Susan House Wade Independent Print and visual accounts of colonial author and Korea in pre-Second World War lecturer British reference works 13/05/2011 Chris Springer Author of North War and its Aftermath in North Korea: Korea Caught in Images from the 1950s Time
(2.6) Evaluation of this Section of the Project During five years of the institutional grant, the Centre of Korean Studies has hosted over 60 seminars featuring a variety of excellent speakers from the UK, Europe and beyond. As can be seen in the lists above, speakers have included renowned Koreanists such as Dr. Koen de Ceuster, Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov, Prof. Marion Eggert, Prof. Rüdiger Frank, Dr. James Lewis and Dr. Stephen Epstein. In addition, we have invited authors such as Paul French, filmmakers such as Dr. Howard Reid and up-and-coming young scholars such as Dr. Remco Breuker and Dr. Isabelle Sancho. In summary, it can therefore be said that this part of the project has been an overwhelming success.
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(3) Organization of Conferences
26 In addition to regular seminars, another goal of the project was to organize larger and more prestigious conferences and workshops. The original plan was to focus on inviting speakers from Korea, particularly AKS. Not only was this part of the project fulfilled, but the scope of conferences was actually made much broader. Henceforth, we list and describe all conferences held in chronological order.
(3.1) Modern Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Choson Korea and the West as Reflected in Literature of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” (25/04/2007) On April 25th 2007, SOAS hosted this workshop on Choson travel literature organized jointly by The Centre of Korean Studies under the AKS grant project and the British Association for Korean Studies. The workshop was the first under the grant project to feature a delegation from the Academy of Korean Studies, who were accompanied by colleagues from Korea University. Although lasting only one day, the workshop had as many as four sessions, which we describe in turn. The first session was themed “Early 19th Century Korean Encounters with the West: Travel Accounts by Choson Envoys in China”. Dr Ik-Cheol Shin (Academy of Korean Studies) spoke on “Choson literati's understanding of Western Learning in the 19th century based on Kang Hobu's Sangbongnok”. This was followed by a talk entitled “Choson literati perceptions of the West in the early 19th century as reflected in Kim Kyongson's Yonwon chikji” by Mr Yang-won Cho (Academy of Korean Studies). Session two was entitled “Early 19th Century British Encounter with Choson Korea: Basil Hall's Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea (1818)”. This featured talks from Professor James H. Grayson (University of Sheffield) “Basil Hall's Account of a Voyage of Discovery: The value of a British naval officer's account of travels in the seas of Eastern Asia in 1816” and Dr. Grace Koh (SOAS) “British perceptions of Choson Korea as reflected in Basil Hall's Account of a Voyage”. The third session looked at “Late 19th Century Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Korea and Great Britain as Reflected in Travel Literature”. Dr Yoong-Hee Jo (Academy of Korean Studies) spoke on “Travel accounts of two Britons in Choson Korea in the late 19th century: A. E. J. Cavendish's Korea and the Sacred White Mountain”. This was followed by Mr. Seung-u Kim‟s (Korea University) contribution: “Travel account of a Korean envoy in London: Yi Chongung's Soyu kyonmunnok” The fourth and final session was themed “Early 20th Century Korean Reactions to Foreign Encounters: Perceptions and Literary Modes”. Ms. Yun-Hee Kim (Korea University) presented on “Provincial literati perceptions of the West as reflected in the Haeyuga”. As the last talk of the day, the audience was treated to a presentation entitled “Perceptions of Western civilization and literary modes of expression in newspapers of the Korean Englightenment period: Editorials and poems published in the Tongnip shinmun and Taehan maeil shinbo” delivered by Dr. Hyung-dae Lee (Korea University).
(3.2) “Issues in Korean Linguistics” (01-02/07/2007) This workshop was organized by the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS in collaboration with Seoul National University. A team of sixteen linguistics from Seoul National University visited SOAS and took part in two days of presentations and discussions with linguists in the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies. The first day began introductory remarks from Prof. Philip J. Jaggar (Associate Dean of Research, SOAS), Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Prof. Young-chul Jun (Seoul National University). The first session of the day then commenced, with Prof: Young-chul Jun (Seoul National University) as
27 chair and Hong-pin Im (Seoul National University) as discussant. This session featured four papers: Prof. Chang-sop Kim (Seoul National University) “On the Construction of „NP + Bound Noun‟ in Korean”, Dr. Jieun Kaier (King‟s College London/Oxford) “Word Order Variation in Korean and Grammar-Parser Correspondence”, Byung-yul Mun (Seoul National University), “A Study on Modal System in Korean: A Typological Perspective” and finally Stefan Knoob (SOAS) “On the importance of animacy and agency effects in the Korean diathesis system”. After a welcome lunch, session two featured no fewer than seven speakers: So-jin An (Seoul National University) “Acceptability of Personal Pronouns „Ku/Kunye‟”, Lucien Brown (SOAS) “Speech Style Variation in Korean Public Discourse”, Min-seok Oh (Seoul National University) “The Grammatical Category of „Maen”, Heejae Lee (Oxford University) “How North Koreans made their own English-Korean dictionary?”, Bo-youn Park (Seoul National University) “The Unit of Diachronic Sound Change”, Emilia Wojtasik (Adam Mickiewicz University), “Learning Mistakes of Korean Learners in Poland” and Suk-yeoung Mun (Hanyang University) “Some Issues on Uses of Tense and Tense-related Expressions in Modern Korean”. The session was chaired by Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS) with Hyeon Hie Lee (Seoul National University) as discussant. The second day of the workshop featured just one morning session, which was moderated by Seok-kyu Im (Seoul National University) and featured Seung-chul Jung (Seoul National University) as discussant. The five papers presented were as follows: Xianhua Wu (Seoul National University) “A study on Vocative Case Marker in Yeonbeon Dialect”, Tadakura Otsuka (Seoul National University) “Palatalization and Hyper Correction in Kyorinshuchi”, Kyoung-sook Shu (Seoul National University) “A Study on the Adverb „Wan-jeon‟”, Se-hwan Kim (Seoul National University), A Phonological Study on Glide Formation on Wonju Subdialect” and Yuhua Qian (Seoul National University), “A Study on the Sino-Korean Suffix „-Jeok(的)‟: Its Origin and Usage”. The workshop was rounded off by a closing discussion followed by a tasty lunch in a Korean restaurant.
(3.3) Korea, East Asia and Beyond: Culture and Society in Modern Korea (26/06/2007) On June 26th 2007, the Centre hosted a one-day workshop that explored modern Korean culture and its place in East Asia and the world. The morning session featured four talks: Rowan Pease “Turning the tide: Chinese singers in the Korean Wave”, Yang Youngkyun “The Expansion of the Joseonjok (Korean Chinese) Community and Their Identities in the Era of Globalization”, James Hoare “From Confrontation to Engagement: Reflections on the ROK's approach to the DPRK”, 1976-2006, Park Dongjun “Korean Senior Citizen's Issues and the Need to Insert a New Element of Virtue in a New Ethics Curriculum”. After lunch, four more papers were delivered. These were as follows: Keith Howard “Kugak Fusion and the Politics of Musical Consumerism”, Kim Hyeon “The Korean Wave, Cultural Content, and Cultural Informatics”, Janet Poole “The World of the Anecdotal Essay in Wartime Korea: Yi T'aejun's Eastern Sentiments (1941)” and Kim Byongsun “In Pursuit of Poetic Resemblances: A Study Comparing Literary Styles in Modern Korean Poetry”. The fruitful day of discussion was rounded off by an informal reception.
(3.4) The 8th International Conference on Korean Studies (16-17/08/2007) SOAS CKS hosted the 8th ISKS (International Society for Korean Studies) International Conference of Korean Studies on August 16th and 17th 2007. The conference was co-organised by the International Society for Korean Studies (ISKS), the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS, and European Branch of ISKS. Hosting of the conference was also assisted by the continuous support of
28 the AKS grant The conference offered a good opportunity to meet colleagues, share ideas, and learn of new developments in the field. More than 80 scholars gathered from all over the world to give papers on a wide range of different themes with papers exploring gender and language in literature, Koguryŏ wall paintings, the labour market in North Korea, shamanistic elements in the New Testament, Taoism in Korea, male violence in Korean cinema, among others. This year, the conference was also attended by a group of scholars from North Korea some of whom gave papers and who generally seemed keen to share ideas and explore new scholarship. The conference concluded with a dinner and on the 18th and many of the foreign visitors chose to join the optional sightseeing tour to Oxford, led by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon The International Society for Korean Studies (ISKS) was formed in Osaka, Japan in 1990 and has over the last fifteen years held conferences in geographically diverse areas, for example, Beijing, Honolulu, Shenyang and Osaka.
(3.5) Korean Studies Publishing in Europe (16/06/2008) The Centre of Korean Studies held its first workshop on Korean Studies Publishing in Europe on June 16, with financial support from the Academy of Korean Studies institutional grant programme. The event aimed to bring together UK and European publishers and academics with experience of publishing to discuss what sort of Korea-related materials are most needed and to examine the problems and difficulties that arise in the process of publishing and translating such materials. The afternoon was divided into three sessions, the first on „Scholarship and translation across borders‟, the second a publishers‟ roundtable discussion and the third a panel on „Providing Korea related materials for university students‟. In the first session Anders Karlsson discussed his experience of translating and publishing Korean literary works in Sweden. He noted how it was initially difficult to get interest from publishers, but also how Korean literature has found recognition in Sweden with some 20 literary works now in print and newly published books regularly receiving reviews in the major papers. Dr Karlsson acknowledged that this was largely due to support from Korean funding bodies, but also noted that there was often a divergence between what Korean organisations wished to promote and what Swedish audiences were most likely to read. Seminars to promote Korean literature often focused on the question of „Koreanness‟ and the need to promote Korean literature, but in fact the Swedish reading public generally have no interest in Korean literature as such, but rather in particular authors and in good translated literature in general. In the same session Keith Howard, SOAS Professor of Music, spoke on the subject of „Korean and Western Scholarship: Divergence or Convergence‟, outlining his concerns about the divergence in methodology between Korean and non-Korean scholars. Unfortunately this has led to a situation where the work of Korean scholars struggles to find acceptance outside of Korea and likewise Korean scholars feel little need to pay attention to the scholarship of non-Korea-based academics. Professor Howard noted that while it would be good to have the work of many more Korean scholars published and available to English-speaking students, it has to be presented in a way that is intelligible and to some extent „vernacularised‟. In the second session, Sajid Rizvi from Saffron Books, Paul Norbury from Global Oriental and Albert Hofstaedt from Brill introduced their current Korean Studies lists and talked about their past experiences of publishing books on Korea as well as their future plans. After these brief introductions the floor was opened to questions and there was a lively discussion of the current status of Korean Studies publishing in the UK and Europe. The problems associated with the poor quality of some translations of academic works offered to publishers were particularly noted as well as the problem of finding specialist translators with knowledge of the specific field they are
29 working on. It was generally agreed by the participating publishers that translations should always be led by a native speaker translator to ensure quality and to save time and money in the long run on the editing process. In the third and final session of the afternoon Professor Vladimir Tikhonov of Oslo University and Dr Charlotte Horlyck of SOAS presented papers on Korean Studies materials and textbooks for university level teaching. Professor Tikhonov looked at „our own history textbook problem‟ by analysing in detail the advantages and drawbacks of two of the currently available English-language histories of Korea – A New History of Korea by Yi Kibaek et al. and Everlasting Flower by Keith Pratt. He concluded that despite the various merits of these books they do not manage to provide a balanced introduction to Korean history in themselves and a new textbook is needed for teaching in an English-language environment. Such a Korean history would need to pay sufficient attention to the international context of Korea‟s history, while at the same time offering a careful balance between political, social, economic and cultural history and would most likely have to be jointly authored. In her talk Dr Horlyck examined publishing on Korean art history by looking at museum catalogues for exhibitions featuring Korea since the early 1980s. She pointed out that to begin with these exhibitions tended to focus on showing „masterpieces‟ of Korean art, mainly fine art and religious art, while essays in the catalogues attempted to set Korean art apart from other East Asian art, but lacked any new information or scholarship. More recently, exhibitions of Korean art have become more diverse and the writing in their catalogues has improved. However, unlike the fields of Chinese or Japanese art where it is possible for students to find a variety of English-language scholarship expressing diverse opinions and write an entire paper on this basis, such is not yet the case for Korean art history. Dr Horlyck concluded that what is needed above all in publishing on Korean art is a greater variety of opinions and subject matter. The workshop was well attended and all sessions provoked lively and fruitful discussions with a number of practical suggestions coming from both the speakers and the floor. The afternoon also provided a rare opportunity for academics and publishers to meet and discuss future projects, something that was particularly useful for younger scholars planning their first publications. A report on the workshop and the recommendations arising from was circulated to interested institutions and publishers in Europe and Korea. After the publishing workshop a book launch event was held to celebrate the publication of Selected Writings of Han Yongun, which was co-translated by Vladimir Tikhonov and Owen Miller. After a brief book talk from Professor Tikhonov, the audience was treated to a performance of the traditional Korean dance salp‟uri, by Lee Chul-jin, currently a visiting scholar at SOAS.
(3.6) European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop (12-13/06/2008) The 2nd biannual workshop for Korean language educators in Europe was held in Colakli, Turkey from June 11th to 15th. This was the first workshop to be organized independently by the recently formed EAKLE (European Association for Korean Language Education) and was co-hosted by SOAS and Ankara University and sponsored by the Korea Foundation. The organization of the conference was also assisted by the manpower provided under the AKS grant. Out of a total of forty-three participants from twenty nine institutions in seventeen countries, SOAS was represented by five Korean language educators (Jaehoon Yeon, Kyung-Eun Lee, Jaehee Cho, Sinae Lew and Lucien Brown). The workshop provided a forum for Korean teachers in Europe to develop and share teaching techniques, exchange information regarding Korean education at different universities and propose joint projects for the development of teaching materials. The workshop focused around a series of individual papers and panel sessions during which teachers presented effective teaching
30 techniques and discussed common problem areas in Korean language education. In addition, during a special colloquium session entitled “Korean language education in Europe”, representatives from each of the 17 institutions summarized the current state of Korean education at their host universities. Finally, at the end of the workshop, proposals were made for joint projects, the most popular of which was to develop a book of classroom activities for Korean grammar.
(3.7) 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics (07-09/08/2008) The Second European Conference on Korean Linguistics was held at SOAS from the 9th to the 10th of August 2008. More than fifty presenters from Europe, America and other countries participated by delivering presentations. The resulting papers are due to be published in late 2009 by Lincom Europa. The conference began after lunch on August 7th. After the opening remarks, Prof. Peter Sells (SOAS) hosted the first session. This included talks by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS) “Double-Accusative External Possession Constructions in Korean”, Dr. Shin-Sook Kim (Frankfurt) “Noun-Complement Constructions in Korean” and Dr. Seongsook Choi (SOAS) “On V-ka „go‟ construction in Korean” After a short break, the second session of the day was chaired by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS). Dr. Akira Utsugi (Edinburgh) & Dr. Hyejin Jang (Korea U) spoke on “Upstep, downstep, and phonological weight in Daegu Korean: A preliminary report”. Dr. Sang-Cheol Ahn (Kyung Hee U) and Dr. Juhee Lee (Kyung Hee U) spoke on “Loan adaptation of Japanese fricatives/affricates in Korean”. To conclude the session, Sunhee Lee (Wellesley) and Yelee An (Yonsei U) delivered a paper entitled “A Corpus-Based Approach to Constraints on Korean Reflexives”. The day was completed by the plenary talk by invited speaker Prof. James Yoon (University of Illinois): “The Lexicalist Hypothesis and Korean Morphosyntax. The second day featured four paper sessions and one further plenary. The first session of the day was chaired by Dr. George Tsoulas (York) and featured the following talks: “Licensing Double Nominative Construction in Korean” (Jisung Sun, SUNY), “Multiple Argument Construction and Left-to-Right Structure Building” (Jieun Kiaer (Oxford) and “A Generative Approach to V>P diachronic reanalysis in Korean” (Changguk Yim, CAU, Korea). The second session was chaired by Dr. Sang-Cheol Ahn and was composed of the following presentations: “A phonetic study on phrasing in Seoul Korean: pitch, timing, and stops” (Hae-Sung Jeon, Cambridge), “From the acoustics to the phonology of the accentual phrase in Korean read speech” (Hyungsil Cho, CNRS), and “Primitiveness of the OCP: Evidence from Korean Palatal Opacity” (Kazutaka Kurisu, Kobe). After lunch, the third session of the day was chaired by Shin-Sook Kim (Frankfurt), featuring the following talks: “An empirical investigation of topic marking and the choice of subjects in Japanese and Korean narrative tasks” (Noriko Iwasaki, SOAS and Hye-Son Park, Keimyung University), L2 Knowledge of Polarity Items: the case of Korean-English Interlanguage (Kook-hee Gil, Sheffield and Heather Marsden, York) and “On the emergence of the laryngeal contrasts in Korean” (Sang-Cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee U). After a short break, Seongsook Choi (SOAS) hosted the final session of the day, which included papers by Lucien Brown (SOAS) “Use of Referent Honorific Lexical Substitutions by Korean University Students” and Stefan Knoob (SOAS) “Structural pattern proliferation in the Korean verbal voice system: a grammaticalisation perspective”. The second day of the conference was concluded by the plenary talk by Prof. Peter Sells (SOAS): “Determining the Scope of Negation in Korean”. The third and final day of the conference featured another four sessions. In the morning, Jieun Kiaer (Oxford) hosted a panel with the following papers: “Diachronic and typological aspects of nominalization in Korean, Japanese and other Asian languages” (Janick Wrona, Kyoto) and “A Probe-Goal Approach to Analyse Korean/Japanese Nominals” (Y.A Lin, Cambridge). After a break,
31 Prof. James Yoon hosted another three papers: “The Concept of Nominal Number and Individuation in Numeral Classifier Languages” (Jeehoon Kim, SOAS), “Korean –cocha „even‟ and Japanese –sae „even‟” (Eun-Hae Park, U of Chicago) and “Plurality, Number, and Quantification in Korean” (George Tsoulas, York). After lunch, there were two final sessions. In the first of these, chaired by Kook-hee Gil, Dongsik Lim and Maria Zubizarreta (USC) spoke on “The syntax of inchoatives: -eci, event structure, and scalarity”, Ji Young Shim (CUNY) talked on “Unifying Korean -i/hi/li/ki constructions” and Miwha Jo (Barcelona) delivered a paper on “A classification of Korean light verbs”. In the final session of the conference, Prof. Peter Sells hosted papers on “Speech training situations modeling for development of dialogic speech habits” (Irina Pavlovska‟ Vladivostock) and “New Korean-French Dictionary: Difficulties Encountered in its Construction” (Guillaume Jeanmaire, Korea University).
(3.8) Decorative Arts and Folk Customs of Korea (24/02/2009) Aim: Centering on Korean folk art and culture of the Chosŏn dynasty, this workshop highlighted aspects of Korea‟s past which are often overlooked. In focusing on popular arts and culture, the workshop offered an insight into how commoners of the late Chosŏn period lived and the art they made – areas which are often overshadowed by the concentration on elite arts and culture of this time. The workshop commenced with a talk by Dr. Charlotte Horlyck who questioned how perceptions of so-called „high‟ art and „low‟ art have influenced the study of pre-modern Korean material culture. This was be followed by a talk by Prof. Michael Pettid (SUNY Binghamton) who discussed how commoners of the late Chosŏn period lived, from the songs they sang to the food they ate. Prof. Chŏng Pyŏng-mo (Kyŏngju National University) gave a talk on Korean folk paintings, ranging from albums to screens. The workshop was concluded by a visit to the British Museum which holds several Korean folk artefacts in its collection. They were presented and introduced by Prof Chŏng. Speakers: Prof Michael Pettid (SUNY Binghamton) Prof Chŏng Pyŏng-mo (Kyŏngju National University) Dr Charlotte Horlyck (SOAS) Visit to British Museum to see Korean folk art (subject to approval by the BM) Venue: SOAS and the British Museum
(3.9) Territory, Frontiers and Borders in Korean History (22/05/2009) Under the leadership of Dr. Anders Karlsson, the Centre held a workshop on territories and territorial disputes, on 22 May 2009. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss not only the extent of territory and the actual borders in Korean history, but also to discuss notions on territory, frontiers and borders at various points of time in Korean history. Contemporary conflicts and controversies such as those over Dokdo or Gando often evoke historical arguments and use old maps, and it is hoped that this workshop through presentation by experts in respective fields and time periods and discussions between Korean and European scholars not only deepened our understanding of these issues, but will also in the end provide good quality English-language studies for international attention. Participants: Prof. Pae Usŏng (University of Seoul): “The organic view of territory in Chosŏn Korea” Prof. Kang Sŏkhwa (Gyeongin National University of Education): “The Mt.Baekdu Demarcation Stele of 1712 and the Historical Background of the Gando Problem”
32 Dr. Remco Breuker (Leiden): “Notions of the Northern Frontier in Koryŏ Korea” Dr. James Lewis (Oxford): “The Waegwan, Tsushima/Taemado and Notions of Japan in Chosŏn Korea” Prof. Gina Barnes (SOAS): “Borders and Territory in Korean History” Prof. Li Jin-myeong (Lyon 3): “The Naming of Waters between Korea and Japan in before the 19th Century” Dr. Anders Karlsson (SOAS): “Northern Territories and the Historical Understanding of Territory in Late Chosŏn”
(3.10) Modern Encounters and Travel Literature: Accounts by Contiguity, Firsthand Accounts, and Mutual Perceptions of Chŏson Korea and the West (15/06/2009) The centre also hosted a workshop on travel literature during 15-16 June 2009, under the supervision of Dr. Grace Koh. The workshop was based on an ongoing collaborative research project between Centre of Korean Studies member Grace Koh and professors from the Academy of Korean Studies and Korea University. The first workshop based on the project was held at SOAS in April 2007, jointly organized by the Centre of Korean Studies and British Association for Korean Studies and funded by grants from the Korea Foundation and the Academy of Korean Studies. While the first workshop focused on mutual perceptions of Chosŏn Korea and the West, this second workshop aimed to invite discussions not only in relation to the specific research topics confined to the Korean context (which would act as a departing point), but also to address critical issues surrounding cultural encounters from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Presenters included the following: Prof. Lee Hyung-dae (Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Korea University) Prof. Jo Yoong-hee (Associate Professor in Korean Literature, AKS) Prof. Shin Ik-cheol (Associate Professor in Korean Literature, AKS) Grace Koh (Lecturer in Korean Literature, SOAS) 10 literature specialists from the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS, and two specialists from Cambridge University
(3.11) Conference on “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” (15-16/102009) – held in Kiev (Ukraine) Under the leadership of Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Dr. Lucien Brown, the Centre of Korean Studies were official co-organizers of the first “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” conference held at the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev (Ukraine) 15th-16th October 2009. As part of the co-organization, the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies organized a Korean linguistics panel entitled “Korean Linguistics in Context”. The panel was chaired by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS) and also featured presentations by Heejae Lee (SOAS, University of Oxford), Spas Rangelov (SOAS, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje) and Dr. Lucien Brown (SOAS). Jaehoon Yeon, in his paper “Queries on the Origin and the Inventor of “Hunmin-jeong-eum”, analyzed the role of King Sejong in the invention of the Korean script Hangul. In his paper “Early English-Korean Dictionaries Made by Westerners” Heejae Lee examined English-Korean dictionaries compiled in the nineteenth century by Westerners for other non-Koreans. The next paper delivered by Spas Rangelov was titled “Korean Cosa and Japanese Joshi in Theoretical Linguistics and in Practical Foreign-Language Courses” and examined semantic, morphological and syntactic features of cosa/joshi (known in English as “particles) from a typological-functional perspective. In his paper “Speech Style Shifting in Korean and Japanese”, Lucien Brown tackled the
33 problem as to why speakers should switch between different levels of honorification within the same speech event in both Korean and Japanese. The collaboration between SOAS and National Taras Shevchenko University and the promotion of interest in Korean studies in the Ukraine were two very positive results from this conference that can be put down to the contribution of the AKS grant. Speakers from SOAS: Dr. Jaehoon Yeon Dr. Lucien Brown Heejae Lee Spas Rangelov Other Speakers on Korean Studies: Dr. Andriy Ryzhkov (National Taras Shevchenko University) Viktoria Zhyla (National Taras Shevchenko University) Dr. Ekaterina Pokholkova (Moscow State Linguistic University) Yun-hee Kim (Korea University) Jin-woo Baek (Korea University) Mi-kyoung Song (Korea University) Dr. Seung-youn Choi (Ph.D.; Korea University) Yeogeun Kim (Ph.D.; University of Toronto) Dr. Seok-won Kim (Ph.D.; National Taras Shevchenko University)
(3.12) Korean Court Paintings (09/03/2010) In March 2010, Dr. Charlotte Horlyck organised a one-day workshop which explored different themes and aspects of Korean court paintings of the Chosǒn dynasty (AD1392-1910). It was hosted by the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, and supported by the Asian Department at the British Museum. Through collaboration with curators at the British Museum, an object viewing session at the museum was made possible. At the workshop four papers by leading Korean scholars were presented. The first paper was by Dr. Park Jeong-hye (Academy of Korean Studies) who mapped out the origins, key characteristics and significance of Chosǒn court paintings. This was followed by a paper by Dr. Yun Chin-yong (Academy of Korean Studies) who explored the genre of royal portrait paintings. In his paper he pinpointed unique features of Chosǒn royal portraits and explained in detail the strict rules and procedures that were observed whenever royal portraits were produced. The next two papers examined decorative paintings that formed a significant part of Joseon palace interiors: In her examination of the murals of Changdǒk Palace, Dr. Kang Min-gi (Academy of Korean Studies) placed their production within the contexts of early 20th century colonial policiesmand the patronage of the Korean royal family. Dr. Hwang Jung-yon (National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage) analysed the decorative paintings that were placed in late Joseon palace halls and shrines. The workshop was well attended and attracted more than 70 participants, this being a clear increase in participants compared to the CKS Workshop on Decorative Arts held at SOAS in February 2009. Many had attended the 2009 workshop organized by Dr. Horlyck and CKS, and the increasing interest in Korean arts and culture among academics and the general public is a clear sign of the positive impact and effectiveness of AKS funding which has enabled SOAS to host such events.
(3.13) European Association for Korean Language Education Workshop (09-10/04/2010) SOAS CKS hosted the third biennial workshop of the European Association for Korean Language Education (EAKLE) from April 9th to 10th 2010. The workshop was organized by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Dr. Lucien Brown and received additional funding from the Korea Foundation. In total,
34 58 Korean language teachers representing 17 different European countries attended the workshop. The workshop proceeded through six sessions: “Grammar Education and Error Analysis” (2 sessions), “Evaluation and Teaching Materials”, “Culture Teaching”, “Classroom Teaching Techniques” and “Teaching Vocabulary and Pronunciation”. Speakers and participants included Dr. Romuald Huszcza (Warsaw University), Tomas Horak (Charles University), Jieun Kiaer (Oxford University), Ertan Gokmen (Ankara University), Kwon Yonghae (University of La Rochelle) Han Yumi (Paris 7), Soyoung Yun-Roger (INALCO), In-Kyum Kim-Von der Wense (University of Bonn), Kim Jeong Young (University of Helsinki) Holmer Brochlos (Freie University, Berlin) Song Moon-Ey (University of Tuebingen) Papers presented at the EAKLE workshop can be retrieved online from the EAKLE website: http://www.eurokorean.org/workshops.php
(3.14) Historians, Clerks and Accountants: Methodological issues in the use of sources on Chosŏn History, (21/05/2010) Organised by Dr. Anders Karlsson, the aim of this workshop was to discuss the character of various Chosŏn-period historical sources in a comparative perspective and address problems confronting researchers analyzing them. Bringing together leading Korean and European scholars from a number of disciplinary subfields within Korean history, the workshop covered issues in economic, social, legal and intellectual history. In the first panel Professor Kim Kuentae (Seoul National University) discussed problems in using economic quantitative sources of the period, pointing out how the entries often were adjusted to fit the purpose of record keeping, after which Dr. Owen Miller (SOAS/Cambridge) introduced the complicated records of a silk guild in late nineteenth century Seoul. Professor Kim Ho (Gyeong-in National University of Education) entertained the audience during the second panel with an in-depth discussion of murder case documents and forensic reports, accompanied with a wide range of illustrations, followed by an equally illuminative presentation by Professor Ko Donghwan (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) on the usage of maps and other visual materials as historical sources. In the third panel, finally, Professor Marion Eggert and Dr Andreas Mueller-Lee (Ruhr University Bochum) discussed methodological issues in the use of travelogues and encyclopaedic works, delving into issues of genre, purpose and readership, both intended and actual. Dr Michael Shin (Cambridge), Dr Grace Koh (SOAS) and Dr Anders Karlsson (SOAS) acted as discussants for each panel, and the workshop was concluded with a round-table discussion at which common themes and methodological problems were identified and discussed in depth. It was agreed that a multi-disciplinary approach such as the one adopted in this workshop is not only very fruitful, but also novel within the field of Korean history, and that these discussions should be continued in the future. It was only thanks to the AKS grant that an innovative workshop of this kind could be held.
(3.15) Korean Buddhists Arts of the Koryŏ and Chosŏn Kingdoms (19/05/2011) Buddhism was introduced to the Korean peninsula in the 4th century AD, and over the next century it played a significant role in the development of arts and culture. When it comes to studies on Buddhist arts, much research has been carried out on Buddhist sculpture of the Three Kingdoms (trad. 57BC-AD668) and Unified Silla (AD 668-935) periods. It is, however, not until more recently that in-depth studies on later Buddhist paintings and sculptures have been undertaken. This workshop offered a unique and rare opportunity to learn about Korean Buddhist arts from the Koryŏ (AD 918-1392) and Chosŏn (AD 1392-1910) kingdoms. Recent research on this area was presented by leading scholars in the field of Korean Buddhist arts: Dr Youngsook Pak discussed paradise
35 paintings of the Koryŏ kingdom, followed by Prof. Jeong Eun-woo examined Koryŏ Buddhist sculptures. The last talk by Dr Choe explored Buddhist paintings of the Chosŏn period. The workshop culminated with a viewing session of selected Korean Buddhist artworks in the British Museum led by the speakers and British Museum curators Sascha Priewe and Dr Oh Seiyon. Speakers: Dr Youngsook Pak (Reader Emerita, SOAS) Professor Jeong Eun-woo (Dong-A University, Pusan) Dr. Choe Gyeong-won (Kansas University)
(3.16) Cross-fertilization and Synergy: Exchanging Ideas on Theory and Method in Korean Studies”, Seventh Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop (06-08/06/2011) The latest conference of the Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers was held at SOAS in June 2011. The report for this conference is not yet available.
(3.17) Evaluation of this Section of the Project During the grant period, the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies has organized as many as sixteen workshops and conferences. These have covered a range of fields within Korean studies including art, literature, history, linguistics and contemporary Korean culture. Speakers have been invited from Korea, other European universities and North America and participants have come from all corners of the globe, numbering over 300 in total. Holding these high-profile events has greatly increased the visibility of the Centre and also done much to promote Korean studies in London. This section of the project should also therefore be evaluated as an important success.
(4) Development of curriculum materials and research publications The fourth goal of the grant period was to produce curriculum materials for use in Korean studies programs in Western universities. As pointed out in the original grant application, Korean studies programs in Western universities desperately need up-to-date, authoritative textbooks appropriate to their students‟ pedagogical requirements. In addition to curriculum materials per se, the wider goal was to increase the research production of the Centre. The following section thus provides reports on the three projects outlined in the original application: Korean reference grammar book project (4.1), Korean (Chosŏn) history book project (4.2) and Korean listening book project (4.3). In addition, we include reports on one further project started during the grant period (“Clean up your Korean” book project – 4.4), a research monograph produced by one of the research fellows employed under the institutional grant (Korean politeness book written by Lucien Brown – 4.5) and a translation also produced by one of the research fellows (Han Yongun book co-translated by Owen Miller – 4.6). The wider increase in research activities that occurred during the grant period is covered later in this report (section 8).
(4.1) Korean reference grammar book project headed by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon The Korean reference grammar book compiled under the supervision of Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and assisted by Dr. Lucien Brown was completed in the autumn of 2010. The book was accepted for publication in the prestigious Routledge “Comprehensive Grammar” series, which although has long featured Japanese and Chinese has never had a Korean edition. It was published in January 2011 as Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar under the joint authorship of Dr. Yeon and Dr. Brown.
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Publisher’s blurb: Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Korean grammar. It presents a thorough yet accessible overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean. The book moves from the alphabet and pronunciation through morphology and word classes to a detailed analysis of sentence structures and semantic features such as aspect, tense, speech styles and negation. Avoiding complex grammatical terminology, the Grammar provides practical information regarding how these grammatical patterns are used in real-world conversation. Through the provision of realistic and lively examples, the book presents readers with Korean grammatical patterns in context. An extensive index and numbered sections provide readers with easy access to the information they require. Features include: - detailed treatment of the common grammatical structures and parts of speech - clear, jargon-free explanations - extensive and wide-ranging use of examples - particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty - Korean-English parallels highlighted throughout. The depth and range of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar makes it an essential reference source for the learner and user of Korean irrespective of level. For the beginner, the book offers clear explanations of essential basic grammar points while for the more advanced learner it provides detailed descriptions of less frequent grammatical patterns.
Table of Contents (Overview) Preface 1. Introduction to the Korean Language 2. Nouns, Nominal Forms, Pronouns and Numbers 3. Particles 4. Verbs 5. Auxiliary (Support) Verbs 6. Clausal Connectives 7. Modifiers
37 8. Sentence Endings 9. Quotations 10. Other Word Classes Glossary of Linguistic Terms Related Readings and Bibliography Index of Grammatical Constructions (Korean) Index of Translation Equivalents (English) General Index
We believe that the publication of this book represents an important step forward in Korean linguistics and Korean language education. As we mentioned in our original application, despite the rapid increase in demand for Korean language teaching and learning, Korean language pedagogical materials have failed to keep pace with this demand. As a result, learners and teachers of Korean language have been suffering both from the lack of materials and from the inadequacy of existing materials. We feel that this book fills an important gap in that there has been a big demand for a good learner's reference grammar which can help learners consolidate and expand their knowledge in the areas of grammar, vocabulary and appropriate usage. To date, there have been no suitable, comprehensive grammar books to serve this purpose. No textbook or other instructional material offers such a comprehensive treatment of various points of grammar, extensive example sentences, and detailed explanations on appropriate usage for learners of Korean language.
(4.2) Korean (Chosŏn) history book project headed by Dr. Anders Karlsson The original project, under the leadership of Dr. Anders Karlsson, was to create a comprehensive textbook providing detailed information regarding this formative period in the development of “traditional” Korea. Through an integrated analysis of society, politics, economy and culture, the book was intended to provide an understanding of the Chosôn dynasty‟s dynamics and development processes independent of Eurocentric models. The main focus would have been on the political, social, and economic history, but it was also the plan to include discussions on literature, art and aesthetics, medicine and science etc. Unfortunately, the project has been severely delayed and it was not possible to proceed to publication during the grant period. The delays were caused by several unforeseen circumstances that resulted in both Dr. Karlsson and his main research assistant Dr. Owen Miller being unable to invest as much time in the project as was needed. In the case of Dr. Karlsson, this was mainly because of a large increase in his workload due to serving as head of the department. As for Dr. Miller, he was unable to devote much time to the project after 2008, when he left SOAS to take up a further research post at Cambridge University. Although Dr. Miller has continued to be involved in the project, he has also been kept busy working on other research activities at Cambridge. Dr. Karlsson is currently considering whether this project should be continued under any further AKS funding, or whether other research projects may be more appropriate at this stage.
(4.3) Korean listening book project headed by Jaehee Cho The goal of this project, led by Jaehee Cho and funded from the AKS grant, was to produce a listening textbook for Korean learners featuring realistic dialogues and listening tasks. The project was completed in 2008 by the publication of the book by Darakwon entitled Korean Listening Skills, authored by Jaehee Cho and Minam Oh.
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Publishers Blurb Korean Listening Skills is designed for intermediate level of Korean learners to enhance their listening ability. This book consists various listening tasks using authentic materials on practical topics. - The learners can consolidate each topic through speaking exercises in the 'Preparation' sections and reading and writing in the 'Activity' sections. - The learners can learn a variety of vocabularies and expressions used in authentic materials in Korea. - The intermediate level students with basic language skills can apply these to real-life situations through task-based learning. - The learners can prepare for the listening section of the authorized Korean language tests for foreigners, such as TOPIK.
Table of Contents Unit 01 반갑습니다 Pleased to meet you Unit 02 식당이 어디에 있어요? Where is the restaurant? Unit 03 가족이 어떻게 되세요? Do you have any family? Unit 04 얼마예요? How much is it? Unit 05 오늘 뭐 해요? What are you doing today? Unit 06 집에 어떻게 가요? How do you get home? Unit 07 취미가 뭐예요? What is your hobby? Unit 08 휴가 어땠어요? How was your holiday? Unit 09 비빔밥 하나 주세요 One bibimbap, please Unit 10 새해에는 운동을 할 거예요 I‟m going to start exercising in the new year Unit 11 머리가 아파요 I have a headache Unit 12 여보세요 Hello? Unit 13 표를 예약하고 싶은데요 I‟d like to book a ticket Unit 14 사전 좀 빌려 주세요 Please lend me a dictionary Unit 15 기분이 좋으면 노래해요 I sing when I feel happy Unit 16 졸업 축하해요! Congratulations on your graduation!
39 Unit 17 거리 카페가 좋아요 The street cafes are nice
This textbook has successfully filled another gap in the materials available for teaching Korean to overseas students. Until now, a lack of suitable and authentic listening materials has proven a major difficulty faced by language educators. However, we hope that with the publication of book that the institutional grant project has gone a long way towards alleviating this problem.
(4.4) “Clean up your Korean” book project headed by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon With the grammar book project complete, Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Dr. Lucien Brown have started work on a related side-project: a book entitled Clean up your Korean: Strategies to Avoid Common Errors. This book looks at common areas of difficulty and sources of errors for learners of Korean. Seven chapters are planned – (1) pronunciation, (2) word order and particles, (3) verbs, (4) verb endings, (5) honorifics, address terms and pronouns, (6) untranslatable words and (7) collocations and idiomatic expressions. The book focuses on pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary choices that are notoriously troublesome (particularly for English speakers). We highlight differences with English and provide simple rules of thumb for correct use of the items in question. Where possible, “shortcuts” are provided for remembering pronunciation rules, grammar rules and vocabulary. The book also contains practice activities distributed throughout the book. These activities allow students the opportunity to put the theory to practice and develop their accuracy in Korean. At present, four of the seven proposed chapters have been drafted. Dr. Yeon and Dr. Brown are currently finalizing the book proposal for submission to Routledge.
(4.5) Korean politeness book written by Lucien Brown While employed as research fellow under the institutional grant, Lucien Brown also reworked his PhD dissertation into publishable form. The resulting monograph – entitled Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning was published in April 2011 by John Benjamins as volume 206 of the “Pragmatics and Beyond” series.
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Publisher’s Blurb This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from
40 native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity of “language learners” and “foreigners” in Korean society. In addition, it shows the influence of conflicting ideologies regarding the “meaning” of “politeness”. This argument is backed up by rich data collected through (discourse completion tests, role-plays, natural interactions, introspective interviews), allowing for a detailed picture of how the honorifics use of second language speakers emerges in context. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the study for politeness research, interlanguage pragmatics and language pedagogy.
Table of Contents (Overview) Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Korean Honorifics System Chapter 3 Honorifics and Politeness Chapter 4 Honorifics and L2 Pragmatic Development Chapter 5 Data Analysis: Discourse Completion Test Chapter 6 Data Analysis: Role-plays Chapter 7 Data Analysis: Natural Interactions Chapter 8 Data Analysis: Honorific Sensitive Incidents Chapter 9 Discussion and Conclusion
The publication of this book marks the first time that a full-length monograph has been published in English on Korean honorifics and politeness. This important research development was only made possible through the AKS institutional grant, under which Dr. Lucien Brown was able to work on this project alongside the grammar book writing project.
(4.6) Han Yongun book co-translated by Owen Miller While employed as a research fellow under the institution grant, Dr. Owen Miller worked with Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja) of translating and editing a collection of writings by Han Yongun. This project received financial support form another AKS grant. The resultant book was published in 2008 by Global Oriental Ltd under the title Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to Socialism with a Buddhist Face.
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Publisher’s Blurb One of Korea's most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement
41 during the long years of Japan's colonization of his country, Han Yongun, otherwise known as Manhae (1879-1944), was a prolific writer and outstanding poet, known especially for his poetry collection Nim ui ch'immuk ('The Silence of the Lover'). This volume, however, concentrates on translations of his principal non-literary works, which are published here in English for the first time. It focuses on his ideas for the revitalization of Korean Buddhism in the modern world; the nature of Buddhism as a religion; his critique of the atheist movements fashionable among the communists of his time, together with memoirs of his early life and travels. Selected Writings of Han Yongun, published in collaboration with the Academy of Korean Studies, also contains an introductory essay on Manhae's life, his relationship with socialist ideas as well as the significance of some of the ideas discussed in the translated writings. Students and researchers in Korean Studies, Studies in Buddhism and Comparative Religions will find this collection invaluable.
(4.7) Evaluation of this Section of the Project This section of the project included the publication of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar, a text which we believe will be an important book in Korean language education and Korean linguistics for many years to come. The publication of this book, alongside Korean Listening Skills, Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning and Selected Writings of Han Yongun thus represents an important tangible output of the grant project. The team working on the history textbook project are regretful that they were unable to proceed to publication within the grant period. However, we feel it should be understood that this was due to unforeseen factors largely outside of our control. In addition, we hope that the review committee will share our opinion that this failing should not be looked upon too negatively given the other successes achieved during the grant period, which in other areas far exceed the original plan.
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(5) Provision of support for postgraduate students The fifth goal of the grant project was to provide bursaries for students undertaking postgraduate research in Korean studies. In this section, we summarize the forms of support that were provided and give details regarding the recipients of these rewards during the grant period.
(5.1) SOAS-AKS Bursary This bursary provided recipients with a grant of up to £5,000 to cover the cost of tuition fees. Living costs were not covered and the bursary was for one year only. In the selection process, the most weight was placed on academic merit. Eligible programs of study were the following full-time degrees: (1) MA Korean Studies, (2) MA Korean Literature, (3) MA Linguistics (Korean pathway only), (4) MA Applied Linguistics (Korean pathway only) and (5) Any other postgraduate Korean Language degree programme. The names of recipients so far are as follows: Ms Emma Campbell, Mr Mark Plaice (2007-8), Mr Uysung Jung (2008-9), Mr Simon Chan (2009-10), Ms Deborah Smith and Ms Sophie Bowman (2010-11).
(5.2) Evaluation of this Section of the Project In the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS, we believe that there are many students who may consider pursuing postgraduate research in Korean studies, but who are discouraged by financial considerations. We thus strongly believe in the provision of bursaries to talented students with promising research agendas. Thus, from our point of view, the way that the AKS institutional grant has allowed us to extend financial assistance to postgraduate students represents an important development.
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(6) Expand SOAS’s role in the Consortium of Korean Studies Centres During the period of the fellowship grant, SOAS has continued and expanded its involvement in the Consortium of Korean Studies Centres. The Consortium was set up by Kyushu University in Japan and includes other key strategic leaders in Korean studies including Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Korea University, Beijing University, Fudan University, Australia National University, University of British Columbia, Hawaii University, UCLA, and Harvard. The main aim of the consortium is to foster the next generation of Koreanists through expanded international exchange and co-operation. To do this, the consortium organises a yearly graduate student conference, publishes a journal for graduate students, and co-ordinates a number of research projects in which both graduate students and scholars from member institutions participate. The first two conferences were hosted at Kyushu University (2005, 2006) and this was followed by further conferences hosted at University of British Columbia (2007), Australia National University (2008), University of Hawaii (2009), Yonsei University (2010). In 2011, the conference was hosted at SOAS for the first time (June 6th – June 8th). The conference was run under the theme “Cross-fertilization and Synergy: Exchanging Ideas on Theory and Method in Korean Studies”. In the consortium, Dr. Anders Karlsson has initiated and is co-ordinating the research project “Re-evaluating Korean modernity.
(7) Publish papers emerging from the seminars and conferences As detailed previously in this report, during the period of the fellowship grant, the Centre of Korean Studies at SOAS has been able to greatly expand the number and range of seminars, workshops and conferences. In order to provide a lasting record of the groundbreaking and thought-provoking research that has been presented, we have supported attempts to publish these research papers either as online working papers (7.1) or in conference proceedings (7.2).
(7.1) SOAS-AKS online working papers Selected papers from various events organized under the institutional grant are being published online by the SOAS-AKS Working Papers in Korean Studies (http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/soas-aks/soas-aks-papers/). The working papers series provides a useful outlet for new research in Korean studies and allows attendees of various SOAS-AKS events to access more detailed information on the topics in question. Due to its location on the main CKS website it is highly visible and papers published here are frequently quoted in other publications. To date, 18 working papers have been published:
1. Queries on the origin and the inventor of Hunmin Chŏngŭm. Jaehoon Yeon. March 2008. 2. The honorifics systems of Korean language learners. Lucien Brown. April 2008. 3. Tobacco and the gift economy of Seoul merchants in the late nineteenth century. Owen Miller. May 2008. 4. On the importance of animacy and agency effects in the Korean Diathesis System. Stefan Knoob. June 2008. 5. How North Korea made its English-Korean dictionary. Lee Heejae. July 2008. 6. Shamans, Ghosts and Hobgoblins amidst Korean Folk Customs. Michael J. Pettid. March 2009. 7. Perceptions of the West in Choson. Shin, Ik-Cheol. July 2009.
43 8. Perceptions of Choson Korea. Jo, Yoong-Hee. July 2009. 9. Transitional Images of the West. Lee, Hyung-dae. July 2009. 10. Transitional Images of Choson Korea. Grace Koh. July 2009. 11. Status System in Choson. Chung, Ku-bok. December 2009. 12. Korean Music in the 19th Century. Sheen Dae-Cheol. December 2009. 13. Births and Achievements of Heroes in the War Hero Novels. Lim, Chikyun. December 2009. 14. Tang Style Poems in the Mid-Choson Period. Jo Yoong-hee. December 2009. 15. Northern Territories and the Historical Understanding. Anders Karlsson. December 2009. 16. Orphan Care in Choson Korea. Anders Karlsson. December 2009. 17. Choson Financial Sources. Kim Kuentae. July 2010. 18. Acquisition Studies on Relative Clauses and their Relevance to Korean Language Education. Lucien Brown & Jaehoon Yeon. August 2010.
The next phase of this project is to select the best papers for publication in a print version.
(7.2) Publication of Conference Proceedings Papers from a number of the conferences have been published as formal proceedings.
(7.2.1) Publication of Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics The volume Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics edited by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and Dr. Jieun Kaier was published in 2010 by Lincom as the 77th volume in the series “LINCOM studies in Asian Linguistics”. The book features papers presented at this conference, which was held at SOAS under the AKS institutional grant in 2008 (see section 3.7).
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Publishers Blurb The contributors for Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics (ECKL) discuss various aspects of Korean Linguistics, including historical linguistics, syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics and language teaching. All the papers were presented at the 2nd ECKL, held in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London in 2008.
Table of Contents Preface Key note Speech:
44 1 Two Types of Denominal Predicates in Korean and Theories of Morphology-Syntax Interface: James Hye-Suk Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
General Session: 2 Use of Referent Honorific Lexical Substitutions by Korean University Students, Lucien Brown (School of Oriental and African Studies) 3 From the acoustics to the phonology of the accentual phrase in Korean read speech: Tonal patterns and boundary, Hyongsil CHO (LPL, Université de Provence) 4 L2 acquisition of polarity items: the case of Korean-English interlanguage Kook-Hee Gill Heather Marsden (University of Sheffield University of York) 5 Difficulties encountered in the construction of a Korean bilingual dictionary and their - the case of the New Korean-French Dictionary: Guillaume Jeanmaire (Korea University, Seoul) 6 A Phonetic Study on Phrasing in Seoul Korean, Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Cambridge) 7 A Classification of Korean Support Verbs, Mihwa JO (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 8 Multiple –ka Construction and Performance-Grammar Correspondence, Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford) 9 A Historical Corpus-Based Approach to Korean Logophor Caki, Sun-Hee Lee and Yelee-An (Wellesley College, Yonsei University) 10 The Syntax of Inchoativity- -eci, event structure, and scalarity: Dongsik Lim and Maria-Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California) 11 Korean –cocha „even‟ and Japanese –sae „even‟, Eun-Hae Park, (University of Chicago) 12 Licensing Double Nominative Constructions in Korean,Jisung Sun (SUNY Stony Brook) 13 Upstep and Constituent Length in Daegu Korean: A Preliminary Report, Akira Utsugi and Hyejin Jang (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad/University of Edinburgh, Korea University) 14 Constraints on Double-Accusative External Possession Constructions in Korean: A Cognitive approach, Jaehoon Yeon, (School of Oriental and African Studies)
(7.2.2) Publications from “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” Conference Two publications resulted from the Kiev conference detailed previously in this report (section 3.11). Firstly, all of the papers were published in Proceedings of the First International Scientific Conference: “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation” (Korea University BK21 Education, 2009). The details of individual papers presented by the SOAS participants were as follows: 1) Brown, Lucien "Speech style shifting in Korean and Japanese", pp. 69-80; 2) Lee, Heejae "Early English-Korean dictionaries made by westerners", pp. 98-102; 3) Rangelov, Spas "Korean cosa and Japanese joshi in theoretical linguistics and in practical foreign-language courses", pp. 109-118; 4) Yeon, Jaehoon "Was the Korean alphabet a sole invention of king Sejong?", pp. 134-145. Secondly, full versions of three of the papers appear in volume 14 of Journal of Korean Culture (The International Academic Forum of Korean Language and Literature, 2010): 1) Lucien Brown "Observations on Korean and Japanese speech style shifting", pp. 65-102; 2) Spas Rangelov "Korean cosa and Japanese joshi in theoretical linguistics and in practical foreign-language courses", pp. 121-149; 3) Yeon, Jae-hoon "Was the Korean alphabet a sole invention of king Sejong", pp. 183-216.
(7.2.3) Publication of Selected Papers from EAKLE Workshop
45 A volume of selected papers from the EAKLE (European Association for Korean Language Education) workshop, which was held at SOAS in April 2010, was published by Pagijong in early 2011. The volume was edited by Dr. Jaehoon Yeon and titled “Current Issues in Korean Language Education in Europe”.
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Table of Contents 문법 교육과 오류분석 1. 대조설명의 효율성 :„ 은/는’과‘ 이/가’의 사용 차이에 대한 설명 l 또마쉬 호락 2. 한국어 진행형“ -고 있다”의 습득 과정 l 루시언 브라운 & 연재훈 3. 명사구 접근가능성 계층(NPAH)의 유표성 정도와 쓰기 자료에 나타난 관계절 유형 연구 l 김성수 4. 프랑스 학습자의 작문에 나타난 연결어미‘ (으)ㄴ데/는데’ 사용과 오류 분석 l 김진옥 5. 독일어권 학습자의 제한적 어미 활용에 나타나는 오류의 유형 l 송문의 6. 한국어 학습에 나타나는 프랑스 학습자의 오류 고찰 l 김혜경 어휘·발음 교육 1. 터키인 학습자를 위한 한국어 어휘 교육 l 튀르쾨쥬, 괵셀 2. 한자어를 통한 한국어 발음 교육에 대한 예비적 고찰 l 김훈태 3. 독일인을 위한 한국어 발음 교육 방법론 연구 l 강신형 4. 발음 교육의 한계와 그 원인 분석 l 김정영 화용론과 문화 교육 1. 화용론과 한국어 교육 l 루시언 브라운 2. 외국어로서의 한국어 수업에서 문법 교육의 역할에 대하여 -문화적 문법의 내용을 중심으로- l 윤선영 3. 한국 문화 교육의 중요성과 문화적 소통 : 프랑스 한국어 교육의 예 l 조혜영 4. 유럽내 한국어 문화교육 교수법으로서의 교육연극의 활용 l 박진아 5. 간문화 능력 향상을 위한 한국어 교육 -프랑스 대학의 문학 번역 수업 사례를 중심으로- l 한유미 6. 외국어로서의 한국어를 배우는 터키 대학생들의 문화간 의사소통 능력 연구-효과적인 문화 교육을 위한 제안- l 알툰다으, 프나르 수업의 실제
46 1. 대학 교육으로서의 한국어 글쓰기 교육 방안 연구 l 안수정 2. 초급자 과정을 위한‘ 자기소개’ 프로젝트 l 백정승 3. 행위중심접근법과 프랑스 국립동양학대학 한국어 수업 : 스케치 프로젝트 l 윤소영 4. 독일 본 대학의 전문번역 교수법 l 김인겸 5. Teaching Korean grammar for beginners : Two different approaches l 브로흘로스, 홀머 6. 평가와 교재 개발 7. 한국어 평가 방법에 대한 소고 l 권용해 8. 한국어 학습자들을 위한 언어 참조기준 l 괴크멘, 에르탄 9. 한국학 내에서의 한국어강좌 학습목표와 한국어 교재 l 양한주 10. 문학을 활용하는 멀티미디어 한국어 수업 개발 l 프라스키니, 니콜라
(7.3) Evaluation of this Section of the Project We believe that the publication of working papers and conference proceedings has resulted in the creation of an important and long-lasting tangible result of the various seminars, workshops and conferences held by SOAS during the grant period. Having these papers available in digital and/or print form will be an important resource for scholars pursuing future research and will, we believe, provide impetus for deeper research in these areas.
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(8) Increase and maximize the research activities of staff in the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies A broader goal during the grant period was to increase the research activities of members of the Centre of Korean studies. In order to demonstrate just how active members of the Centre have been, we include individual activities reports for selected members below. Reports for the two staff members currently employed under the grant – Dr. Charlotte Horlyck and Dr. Lucien Brown – can be found previously in this report (section 1.3).
(8.1) Prof. Keith Howard (Professor of Music, Member of the Centre of Korean Studies) POSITIONS: Activities since 2006 have included: - Promotion to Professor of Music at SOAS, University of London - Taking up position of Associate Dean Research at Sydney Conservatorium of Music University of Sydney in 2009 - Director of AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance (2006-2007), and Research Centre for Music and Dance Performance (2007-2009), Licensee and Director, OpenAir Radio (2005-2008), Director of SOASIS CD and DVD label; director of SOAS division of EU-funded DISMARC project (2006-2008). - External examining at University of Sheffield, Taiwan National University, Wellington, Surrey, LSE, UCL, Kings, Monash, Makerere, Texas at Austin, UBC, ANU, etc.
GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2010: University of Sydney, Australian Research Council. Appointed to College of Experts, Australian Research Council. 2009: Central Research Fund, University of London. 2008: Appointed to European Committee of Korea Foundation Scholarships Committee. Appointed
47 international assessor, Austrian Research Council. Appointed chair of SOAS Musicology Series (Ashgate) editorial board. 2007: Sasakawa Foundation, Kazakh Embassy, Iran Heritage Foundation, University of London Vice Chancellor's Development Fund; appointed as SOAS board member of Institute for Musical Research. 2006: Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne (with two grants); ASEM Duo-Korea; EU, as part of the DISMARC Consortium,; Endangered Archives Project,; British Academy; Appointed to board of Institute for Musical Research; Appointed to editorial board of Musiké; Appointed to steering committee of PRIMO (Practice as Research in Music Online).
RESEARCH STUDENTS: Completed PhD students since 2006: Jean Johnson Jones (Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey), Sandra Fahy (University of Southern California), Dorota Sarowska (Lecturer, University of Warsaw), Kiku Day (lecturer and performer, Aarhus), Park Sunghee (Research Fellow, Korea Foundation), Jung Rock Seo (Research Fellow, Chungang University/Johns Hopkins), Simon Barker (jazz percussionist, Sydney). Current PhD students: Eve Leung (East Asian pop music), Sabina Racheyeva (Cultural diplomacy through music), Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (Majorcan bagpipes), Hyelim Kim (Korean jazz/trad fusion and composition), Hyunseok Kwon (Korean music), Kevin Hunt (jazz and the Stuart and Sons piano).
MEDIA WORK ON KOREAN MATTERS FOR: ITN TV News, Channel 4 TV, Sky TV, BBC TV, , BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, BBC World Service radio and TV, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, Capital, LBC, etc.
LECTURES SINCE 2006 ON KOREAN TOPICS IN: Seoul, City University New York, Berlin, Dublin, Michigan, Atlanta, Kennesaw State, UBC, Music Research Institute Beijing, Chinese Conservatoire Beijing, Shanghai Conservatoire, Monash, Sydney, Griffith, Hong Kong Uni., Chinese Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist Uni., etc.
PUBLICATIONS, 2006-2011 Books 1. Preserving Korea Music: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate. xvi+228pp, map, 20 photographs, 7 tables, 6 notations, audio CD. ISBN 0 7546 3892 8. 2006. 2. Creating Korea Music: Tradition, Innovation, and the Discourse of Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate. xviii+242pp, 8 photographs, 2 tables, 28 notations and audio CD, ISBN 0 7546 5729 9. 2006. 3. Riding the Wave: Korean Pop Music. Editor, and author of introduction (vii–xi) and two chapters (82–98 &154–67). Hastings: Global Oriental (distributed in the US by Hawaii University Press). xiv+250 pages. ISBN 1-905246-22-6. 2006. 4. Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro‟s Life in Music. Co-editor with Chartwell Dutiro, writer of preface and chapter 1. xii+108pp, notations and audio CD. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. 5. Korean Kayagum Sanjo. Co-authored volume, with Lee Chaesuk and Nicholas Casswell. xii+160pp, including 56pp notation and 2 audio CDs. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7546-6362-1. 6. The Kyrgyz Manas, sung by Saparbek. Co-authored with Saparbek Kasmambetov (with
48 Gulnara Kasmabaetova, Razia Sultanova and Gouljan Arslan). With two audio CDs. Xx + 151pp. Leiden: Brill, 2011. ISBN 978 19 06 87638 8
Monograph 1. „Live Music vs Audio Tourism: world music and the changing music industry‟. SOAS, University of London. ISBN 978 07286 0385 1. 2009.
Chapters in Books 1-3. „Introduction‟, „Comng of Age: Korean Pop in the 1990s‟ and „The People Defeated Will Never Be United: Pop Music and Ideology in North Korea‟, in Keith Howard, ed., Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave: vii–xi, 82–98 and 154–67. Folkestone: Global Oriental. 2006. 4. „Memories of Fieldwork: Understanding “humanly organised sound” through the Venda‟. In Suzel Ana Reily (ed.), The Musical Human: Rethinking John Blacking‟s Ethnomusicology in the Twenty-First Century: 17–35. Ashgate: Aldershot. ISBN 0 7546 5138 X. 2006. 5. „Practice-led research: putting Asian music performers centre-stage‟, in Essays for Dr Lee Hye-ku, in celebration of his 100th birthday. Seoul: Korean Musicological Society. 2008. 6. „Professional Music: Instrumental‟, in Byong Won Lee and Yong-Shik Lee, eds, Music of Korea: 127–143. Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, 2007. 7. „Recording Pansori‟, in Yong-Shik Lee, ed., Pansori. Music of Korea II: 163–82. Seoul: National Center for Korean Tradtional Performing Arts, 2008. 8. „KOREA: Rhythms from Seoul (and beyond)‟, in Rough Guide to World Music, Vol.2: Europe, Asia and the Pacific: ISBN 9781843538660. 2009. 9. 'Sanjo Evolution and Transmission', in Sanjo. Korean Musicology Series III: 45-71. Seoul: National Center for Korean Tradtional Performing Arts. ISBN 978-89-85952-12-5. 2009. 10. „Piri/P‟iri: Isang Yun‟s composition and the Korean oboe‟, in Ssi-ol Almanach 2004-09. Berlin: Internationalen Isang Yun Gesellschaft e.V., pp. 109-130. 11. „Music Across the DMZ‟. In John Morgan O‟Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, eds, Music in Conflict: 67-88. Indiana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07738-8/978-0-252-03545-6. 2010. 12. „Rebranding Korea: Creating a New Old Music‟, in Laurel Kendall, ed, Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance. ISBN 978-0-8248-3393-0. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press. 2010. Submitted but unpublished: 13. „Western music in Korea‟, in Philip V. Bohlman, ed, The Cambridge Ethnomusicology Reader (Submitted September 2007). 14. „Authenticity and Authority: Conflicting agendas in the preservation of Korea‟s Intangible Cultural Heritage‟ and „Introduction‟, in Keith Howard, editor, Preserving Music, Promoting Music: Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia. 15. „Korea and the world: Jinhi Kim as composer, performer and improviser,‟ in (as yet untitled) book on Jinhi Kim. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press (submitted June 2010). 16. „Redefining Koreanness: North Korea, musicology, ideology, and „improved‟ Korean instruments‟, in Rudiger Frank, editor, Exploring North Korean Arts (provisional title; submitted September 2010). 17. „Reviving Koreanness: Iconicity and the Intangible Cultural Heritage‟, in Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill eds, Oxford Handbook of Music Revivals (submitted October 2010). 18. „Fighting the Superstition of Tradition: Christianity and Korean Music‟, in Suzel Ana Reily, ed, Oxford Handbooks in Music: Music in World Christianities (submitted November 2010).
49 Articles in Journals 1. „Imploding the Percussion Gestalt: SamulNori and Emerging Korean Tradition‟, Acta Koreana 9/1 (2006): 13–33. ISSN 1520-7412. 2. „Introduction‟ to Keith Howard, ed., Music and Ritual: Musike 1/1: v–vii. Den Haag: Semar Publishers. 2006. 3. With Yarjung Kromchai Tamu and Simon Mills, „Ritual, Music and Life in Tamu Shamanism‟, in Keith Howard, ed., Music and Ritual: Musike 1/1: 1-28. Den Haag: Semar Publishers. 2006. 4. „Performing Ethnomusicology: exploring how teaching performance undermines the ethnomusicologist within university music training‟. Delivered as keynote address to Cultural Diversity in Music and Dance Education symposium, December 2006. Networks and Islands. Musiké 3: 25–32. Den Haag: Semar Publishers. 2007. 5. „Strategies for the Globalization of Korean Music‟, Journal of Korean Musicology (Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, 2008). Also in International Conference of Korean Musicologists (Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, 2008): 349–70. 6. „Promoting Korea to the World: Traditional Culture vs Popular Culture‟, in 30th Anniversary SamulNori International Symposium: 11-29 (in both English and Korean). Seoul, January 2009. 7. „Why study ethnomusicology at university?‟ Classroom Music (spring term 2008/2009). London: Rhinegold, 2009. 8. „Korean rhythm „n‟ Seoul‟, part of SOAS combined set of lesson plans, „KS3: east, south and south-east Asia‟, Classroom Music (summer term 1, 2008/2009): 24–31 and 13pp downloadable PDF resource pack at http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/downloads/catalogue_supporting_materials/KS3%20Asian%20 music%20resources.pdf. London: Rhinegold, 2009. ISBN 9 771744 612002. 9. 'Mass distraction: Public dance in enigmatic North Korea', in Dance Gazette 2009/3: 30-31. London: Royal Academy of Dance.
Unpublished 10. „How East Asians Notate Music: The Korean Case‟. For publication in Berlin (presented as paper in December 2007; article submission September 2008).
Journals Edited 1. Editor, Music and Ritual: Musiké 1/1. 175pp. Den Haag: Semar Publishers. ISSN 1824-7199, ISBN 978-99-7778-092-8. 2006. 2-4. Newsletter AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance, 8 (2006), 9 (2007), 10 (2008), each between 24 and 32 pages.
Articles in Other Publications 1 „Foreword‟, to Rolf Killius, Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerela (Delhi: B.R. Rhythms, 2006). 2. ‟Mun Jae-sook and Kayagum Sanjo‟, Mun Jae-sook: Sanjo and P\ungnyu. CD booklet notes. 2006. 3. „Opening address‟, African Dance Explored! http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Dance/ahrb/events.htm. 4. „AKMR: our achievements and our future‟, Association for Korean Music Research Newsletter, October 2006. (Also, small articles in AKMR Newsletters for 2005 and 2007, in
50 my capacity as president.) 5. „Seoul Music; Music for Souls‟, Gugaknuri, August 2007. Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts. 6. „The School of Oriental and African Soul‟, in SOAS: A Celebration in Many Voices: 144–8. London: SOAS, 2007. ISBN 978-1-903942-58-1. 7. „Honour for the Maestro, Daniel Barenboim‟, Alumni Newsletter 32: 8–9. London: SOAS, 2008. 8. „Geraldine Auerbach: Tribute‟. SOAS Graduation (booklet). London: SOAS, 2008. 9. 'Arirang: An Icon of Passion', in Arirang to the World, 2009 International Symposium: 46-63. Seoul: Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation. 2009. 10. „A little world music is a dangerous thing, a lot of ethnomusicology is even worse‟, keynote for conference on peer-reviewed DVD, Papers of the 10th Conference of the Cultural Diversity in Music Education Network. Sydney: Sydney Conservatorium of Music. January 2010. 11. „Iconicity and the Preservation of Culture in Korea‟, in working papers arising from the conference „Tradition and its Future in East Asian Music‟, on http://www.music.usyd.edu.au/research/index.shtml.
Other Media 1.Cheng Yu and her Five-String Pipa. SOASIS-10. Producer. 2006. 2. Lila Cita: Lovers of Beauty. SOASIS-11. Project co-ordination. 2007 3. Sounding the World. SOASIS-12. Producer; CD mixed and mastered by Howard, Jerry Glasgow and Sara McGuinness. 2007. 4. Tashkent: Uzbek Music of Celebration. SOASIS-13. Project co-ordination. 2007 5. Kazakh Music: Songs and tunes from across the Steppe. SOASIS-15 – SOASIS-16. Project co-ordination. 2007. 6. Stepanida: Vocal Evocations of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia (1) SOASIS-17. Booklet notes and project co-ordination. 2008. 7. Chyskyyrai: Vocal Evocations of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia (2) SOASIS-18. Booklet notes and project co-ordination. 2008. 8. Siberia at the Centre of the World: Music, ritual and dance from Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia. SOASIS DVD-06. 2008. 9. Siberia at the Centre of the World: Music, ritual and dance from Buryatia, Siberia. SOASIS DVD-07. 2008. 10. Saparbek Kasmambetov: Singing the Kyrgyz Manas. SOASIS-21 and SOASIS-22 (2 CDs). Project co-ordination, recording editing, all program notes. 2009. 11. SOASIS DVD-01, DVD-02, DVD-03, DVD-04, DVD-05, DVD-06, DVD-07, DVD-08; CD 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15-16, 17, 18, 19, 20, project co-ordination.
Unpublished Conference presentations (Sampling of these only) 1. „Developing a community radio for world music‟. Rotterdam, December 2006. 2 „Korean and Western Scholarship: Divergence or Convergence‟. London, June 2008. 3. „Texts and Orality in Shamanic Performance‟. London, June 2008. 4. „The Future of Musicology in a Global Perspective‟. Taipei, April 2008. 5. „The Sakha khomus: Artifice, Noise, or Spiritual Music?‟ Cardiff, April 2008. 6. „Music after the death of the music industry‟. Seattle, March 2008. 7. „CDIME Reflections‟. Seattle, March 2008. 8. „How East Asians Notate Music: The Korean Case‟. Berlin, December 2007.
51 9. „Should we study dance without music, or music without dance?‟ Seoul, November 2007. 10. „The Korean Kugak Festival: Creating a New Old Music‟. Columbus, Ohio, October 2007. 11. „Crossing the Line‟ Introduction to a film showing. London, September 2007. 12. „Can the „Korean‟ in Korean Folksongs Survive Fusion?‟ Dublin, September 2007. 13. „Rebranding Korea: Creating a New Old Music‟. Hawaii, October 2006. 14. „Home and Away: Distance and Proximity in Collaborative Music Analysis‟. Rotterdam, May 2006. 15. „Gendered Spirits and Transgendered Shamans? Winchester, April 2006. 16. „Kayagum sanjo: modal considerations in analysis‟. London, February 2006.
Reviews and review articles 133. Review Essay on Daniel J Schneck and Dorita S Berger, The Music Effect and David Aldridge and Jörg Fachner, Music and Altered States. Ethnomusicology Forum 17/2 (2008). 134. Review of „Le chant profond de la Corée/The Deep Song of Korea‟, Musique du Monde 3017407, in Songlines 36 (September/October) 2007. 135. Review of Daniel Prior, The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Epic Performance on Phonograph, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71/1 (2008). 136. Review of Elaine Howard Ecklund, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life, in Culture and Religion (submitted June 2007). 137. Review of Zhou Xun and Francesca Tarocco, Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71/2 (2008): 395–7. 138. Review of Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon, eds, Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s – 1940s: Portrayal of the East. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71/3 (2008). 139. Reivew of Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares, eds, Korea Yearbook 2007: Politics, Economy and Society. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71/3 (2008). 140. Review of Byungki Hwang, „The Best of Korean Gayageum Music‟, Songlines 57 (2008). 141. Review of Kim Hee-sun, „Contemporary Kayagum Music in Korea‟, Songlines 58 (2009). 142. Review of Mike Kim, 'North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72/2 (2009). 143. Review of Rudiger Frank et al., 'Korea Yearbook 2008: Politics, Economy and Society'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72/2 (2009). 144. Review of Musique du pays du matin clair, Musique du Monde 3017908, Songlines 59 (2009). 145. Review of Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi, eds, 'East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72/3 (2009). 146. Review of Eric C. Lai, 'The Music of CHou Wen-chung', Ethnomusicology Forum (submitted Feb. 2010; publication due end of 2010). 147. Review of Helen Rees, ed., 'Lives in Chinese Music', Ethnomusicology Forum (submitted Feb. 2010; publication due end of 2010) 148. Review of Simone Krüger, „Experiencing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Learning in European Universities‟, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (submitted May 2010). 149. Review of Vanessa Agnew, Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds, in Ethnomusciology Forum (submitted September 2010).
(8.2) Dr. Anders Karlsson (Senior Lecturer in Korean)
52 Publications “Isang chôk kyônghyang ûi kajang t‟akwôlhan chakp‟um ûl chôsulhan saram ege: Nobelsang susangja sônjông wônch‟ik kwa kwajông ûi silch‟e” [„To the person that has produced the most prominent work of an idealistic character‟: Principles and processes in the selection of Nobel prize laureates in literature], Taesan Munhwa 20 (2006). “Central Power, Local Society, and Rural Unrest in Nineteenth-Century Korea: An Attempt at Comparative Local History,” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (October 2006), pp. 207-238. “Royal Compassion and Disaster Relief in Chosŏn Korea”, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies vol. 20, no. 1 (June 2007), pp. 71-98. “Famine Relief, Social Order and State Performance in Late Chosŏn Korea”, Journal of Korean Studies vol. 12, no. 1 (Fall 2007), pp. 113-141. Hwang Sok-Yong‟s novel Han-ssi yŏndaegi [The Story of Mr. Han] translated into Swedish together with Park Ok-Kyoung. Published as Berättelsen om Herr Han, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2007 (978-91-0-011127-4). “„Scions of Wealthy Families do not Die at the Market Place‟: Death Penalty and Hyosu Punishment in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Chosŏn Korea”, in Tomiya Itaru ed., Higashi ajia no shikei [The Death Penalty in East Asia], Kyoto University Press (Feb. 2008). “Konfuciansk statsmannakonst, folkets välfärd, och omhändertagandet av föräldralösa barn i traditionella Korea” [Confucian statecraft, the wellbeing of the people, and the care of orhpaned children in traditional Korea], Orientaliska Studier 123 (Autumn 2009) “Geography and Civilization: Chŏng Yagyong and Late Chosŏn Notions of Chunghwa”, Tasanhak 16 (Journal of Tasan Studies), 2010.
Lectures and conference papers “Power and Famine: Land-Tax Exemptions in Late-Eighteenth Century Korea”, paper presented at the Third World Congress of Korean Studies, Cheju National University, 27-30 October 2006. “Death as a Deterrent: Death Penalty and Hyosu Punishment in Chosôn Korea”, presented at the Association for Asian Studies 2007 Annual Meeting, Boston March 22-25. “Orphan Care in Chosŏn Korea”, paper presented at the 23nd AKSE conference in Dourdan, 16-18 April 2007. “Parhae in Late Chosŏn Historiography”, paper presented at the 8th ISKS (International Society of Korean Studies) International Conference on Korean Studies, SOAS 16-17 August 2007. “Romanisation and the Translation of Korean Literature into Western Languages”, paper presented at “Korean Culture in Europe: Achievements and Prospects, the 1st International Translators‟ Conference organised by the Korea Literature Translation Institute in Seoul 13-14 September 2007. “Another Ritual of Death: Forensic Medicine and the Performance of Confucian Statecraft in Chosŏn Korea”, paper presented at “Ritual and Punishment in East Asia”, Tongguk University, Seoul, 28-30 September 2007. “Worldview and historical understanding in late Chosŏn historical texts” (in Korean), presented at “International Conference of New East Asian Historians”, Sungkyunkwan University, January 17, 2009 “Korean culture and East Asian civilization: How Chosŏn intellectuals viewed the role of Korea in East Asia”, presented at “Culture as memory: The history and reality of East Asian aesthetics and culture”, Sungkyunkwan University, January 17, 2009. “A reinvestigation into the worldview and historical understanding reflected in late Chosŏn
53 historical works: With focus on the Northern Territories and Parhae” (in Korean), lecture given at the Kyujanggak Institute of Korea Studies, Seoul National University, March, 2009. “An overview of late Chosŏn change as seen by a Western scholar”, lecture given at the Centre for Korean Studies at Inha University, June, 2009. “Geography and Civilization: Chŏng Yagyong and Late Chosŏn Notions of Chunghwa”, presented at “the 5th Biennial Tasan International Conference”, INALCO, 1-2 October 2009 “The Future of Asian from a European Perspective”, presented at “The Era of Asia and the Future of Asian Studies”, Yonsei University 6-8 May 2010. “Ritualized Punishment: Sejong and Yŏngjo on the Use of Torture in Criminal Investigations”, presented at “Law and Ritual in East Asia”, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, September 2010. “The Middle Kingdom to the East: Historiography and Notions of Territoriality in Late Chosŏn Korea”, lecture given at Cambridge University, 2 May 2011
Organized workshops “Korea, East Asia and Beyond: Culture and Society in Modern Korea”, SOAS 26 June 2007. “Territory, Frontiers and Borders in Korean History”, SOAS 22 May 2009. “Historians, Clerks and Accountants: Methodological Issues in the Use of Sources of Choson History”, SOAS 21 May 2010.
External activities 2006- Member of the editorial board of the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. 2006- Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Korean Studies 2006- Secretary, International Society of Korean Studies, Europe branch 2006 Member of the organising committee for the Third World Congress of Korean Studies held at Cheju National University, 27-30 October. 2006-07, 2009- Faculty member at the International Summer Campus (ISC) at Korea University 2007- Member of the grant application evaluation committee and the advisory board for the new Korean studies support programme initiated by Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies. 2007 Awarded the 8th Korean Literature Translation Award by the Korea Literature Translation Institute 2008 Faculty member at the International Summer Institute at Seoul National University 2009 External examiner for the BA programme in Korean Studies, Sheffield University. 2009- External examiner for Korean Studies units at Cambridge University 2009- European representative in the Association of Korean Historians
(8.3) Dr. Grace Koh (Lecturer in Korean Literature) Since joining the Department in 2002, Grace‟s post (Lecturer in Korean Literature) at SOAS was made permanent in 2007. Grace has taught courses on Korean literature and translation for BA and MA programmes offered under the Department of Japan and Korea, and has been the convenor of the MA Korean Literature. Grace has served on the Editorial Board for The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published by Cambridge University Press since 2006, and on the International Advisory Editorial Board for the Journal of Korean Culture, published by Korea University since 2007. She has also acted as a peer reviewer for AKSE papers (literature), Comparative Critical Studies, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.
54 Grace has been involved in an ongoing collaborative research project, “Modern Encounters and Transitional Images of „The Other‟: Mutual Perceptions of Chosŏn Korea and the West in Travel Literature (1700~1910)” since 2005 with colleagues at the Academy of Korean Studies and Korea University. The project was initially launched with a grant from the Korea Research Foundation in 2005/06, and was able to continue with various funding including the AKS Institutional Grant. Grace organised two workshops at SOAS in 2007 and 2009, with financial support from the Korea Foundation (2007) and the AKS Institutional Grant (2007 and 2009). The first workshop was jointly hosted by the SOAS CKS and the British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS), and the second was hosted by the SOAS CKS in collaboration with the SOAS Faculty of Languages and Cultures, with participation from colleagues in different disciplinary and comparative literary fields. Since 2008, Grace has also been involved in a collaborative book project with Boudewijn Walraven and Remco Breuker at Leiden University, editing and annotating Fritz Vos‟s translation of the Samguk yusa with a critical introduction. This is an umbrella project headed by Prof Robert Buswell and the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies‟ Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies (SIKS) Grant.
Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations
“British perceptions of Chosŏn Korea as reflected in travel literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century” (The World Congress of Korean Studies Conference, Jeju National University, 28 October 2006)
“British perceptions of Chosŏn Korea as reflected in Basil Hall‟s Account of a Voyage” (SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS) Workshop: Modern Encounters: Mutual Perceptions of Choson Korea and the West as Reflected in Literature of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries [Workshop Organiser], 25 April 2007)
“Current state of and future prospects for Korean literature studies and research in Europe” [presentation delivered in Korean] (Research Institute of Korean Studies [RIKS], Korea University: ICKS Workshop on Korean Studies, 29 July 2008)
“Korean Literature Studies in the United Kingdom: In Relation to Area Studies, Language, and Comparative Literature” (6th International Academic Forum of Korean Language and Literature Conference at the National University of Mongolia, 20 August 2008)
“Transitional Images of Chosŏn Korea: Accounts by Contiguity versus Firsthand Accounts” (SOAS Centre of Korean Studies Workshop [in collaboration with the SOAS Faculty of Languages and Cultures]: Modern Encounters and Transitional Images of ‘The Other’: Mutual Perceptions of Chosŏn Korea and the West in Travel Literature (1700~1910) [Workshop Organiser], 15 June 2009)
“Beyond Metaphorical Contiguities: „Chosŏn Korea‟ in British Travel Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century” (The Association for Korean Studies in Europe [AKSE] Conference at Leiden University, 19 June 2009)
55 “Summoning the Past, Reconstructing the Present: Narrating Memory and Redemption in Hwang So-yong‟s The Guest” (Stockholm University Korean Literature Symposium: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary South Korean Literature, 8 October 2009)
“Transitional Images of Chosŏn Korea in 19th Century British Travel Accounts” [presentation delivered in Korean and English] (2nd International Conference of the AKS Institute for Language, Literature & Oral Tradition: Literary Traditions of Cultural Exchange, 11 December 2009)
“Rationalizing the Strange: Historical Method versus Literary Strategy of the Samguk yusa” [presentation delivered in Korean] (Research Institute of Korean Studies [RIKS], Korea University, 8 February 2010)
“Horizon of Expectations: Traditional Conceptions, Conventions, and the Samguk yusa” [presentation delivered in Korean and English] (8th International Academic Forum of Korean Language and Literature Conference at Meiji University, Tokyo, 25 February 2010)
“Some Observations on „Historical Truth‟ and Literary Form in relation to the Samguk yusa” [presentation delivered in Korean] (Research Institute of Korean Studies [RIKS], Korea University, 21 June 2010)
“On the „Meaning‟ of the Samguk yusa in relation to an Aesthetics of Reception” [lecture delivered in Korean] (AKS Institute for Language, Literature & Oral Tradition Colloquium Series, 11 August 2010)
“Conjectures on Canon-Formation of Korean Literature in English Translation” (Yeongwol Yonsei Forum [Panel: The Cultural Turn in Korean Studies: Reflections on Developments Since the 1980s], 24 May 2011)
“Canon-Formation and „National Literature‟: Defining Korean Literature in Local and Global Contexts” (SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies [CCLPS] Workshop: Approaches to World Literature: Questions of Critical Methods Beyond Eurocentrism, 11 June 2011)
Grace also participated as a Chair / Discussant at the following workshops and conferences:
The British Academy and British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS) Conference: Social and Cultural Change in late pre-modern Korea (7 December 2007) The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting (Panel session: Mt. Baekdu: Cultural Understanding of an East Asian Border, 6 April 2008)
The Korean Cultural Centre UK Special Literary Event: The Poet Ko Un – Poetry Reading (29 April 2008)
AKS Institute for Language, Literature & Oral Tradition Workshop: Cultural Exchange between Korea and China as reflected in Travelogues to Beijing (30 October 2009)
56 SOAS CKS Workshop: Historians, Clerks and Accountants: Methodological Issues in the Use of Sources on Chosŏn History (15 June 2010)
7th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop: Cross-fertilization and Synergy: Exchanging Ideas on Theory and Method in Korean Studies (6-8 June 2011)
Publications
“British Perceptions of Joseon Korea as Reflected in Travel Literature of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century.” The Review of Korean Studies Volume 9 Number 4 (December 2006): 103-133.
“An Englishman among the White Cranes of Korea (Interview with Richard Rutt).” Kim, Tsung-Sun and Michael Finch, eds. Recollections, Reflections and New Directions: Fourteen Interviews from Acta Koreana, 2003-2009. Daegu: Academia Koreana of Keimyung University, 2009, pp. 65-89.
“Transitional Images of Chosŏn Korea – Accounts by Contiguity versus Firsthand Accounts.” SOAS-AKS Working Papers in Korean Studies, No. 10, July 2009
“Korean Literature Studies in the United Kingdom: In Relation to Area Studies, Language, and Comparative Literature.” Journal of Korean Culture Volume 14 (February 2010): 257-72.
“Horizon of Expectations: Traditional Conceptions, Conventions, and the Samguk yusa.” Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium of the International Academic Forum of Korean Language and Literature (Meiji University, in collaboration with BK21 The Education and Research Group for Korean Language and Literature, Korea University, 25-26 February, 2010), pp. 53-75.
(8.4) Dr. Owen Miller (Research Associate, Centre of Korean Studies) During the first two years of the AKS Institutional Grant program at SOAS (2006-2008) I worked under the program as a research fellow, participating in various projects and helping to administer elements of the program. Then during the academic year 2008-2009 I was a Korea Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, where I worked on revising my doctoral thesis for publication. Since 2009 I have been a postdoctoral research assistant and fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, under a Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies program funded by the AKS. I am currently working with Korean Studies lecturer Dr Michael Shin to develop teaching materials for Korean history, including an historical atlas of Korea and a web archive of video material on the Korean War. During the last five years I have also taught Korean history, East Asian history and Korean literature courses. At SOAS I have taught the courses „History and culture of Korea to the late 19th century‟ and „Readings in modern Korean fiction‟. At Birkbeck College, University of London I have twice taught the course „Modern history of East Asia‟ with Naoko Shimazu and Julia Lovell, taking seminar classes and contributing lectures on Korean history. I plan to publish a revised version of my doctoral thesis in the Brill Korean Studies Library series within the next year under the title „Guild and Government in Choson Korea: Between public service and private business in Korea's nineteenth century crisis‟. At the same time I continue to
57 pursue my research interests in two areas: the commercial and social history of nineteenth century Seoul and the historiography of stagnation and progress in colonial and postcolonial Korea. In addition to my teaching and research activities I am one of the convenors of the Comparative Histories of Asia seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and I have recently become a member of the editorial board of the new peer-reviewed journal Korean Histories.
Publications Korean History in Maps (Jointly authored with Michael Shin, Lee Injae, Lee Hyu-hae and Park Jinhoon; forthcoming 2011). “Haebang chŏnhu Chŏn Sŏktam ŭi yŏksahak: kŭndae kungmin kukka ro ihaeng kwa malksŭjuŭi yŏksahak.” [The historical thought of Chŏn Sŏktam in Korea‟s liberation period: Marxist historiography in the transition from empire to nation(s)]. In Lim Jie-hyun ed. Cheguk kwa minjok ŭi kyoch‟a ro. (Forthcoming, 2011). “Sijŏn-kukka kan kŏrae wa 19-segi huban Chosŏn ŭi kyŏngje wigi: Myŏnjujŏn sangin ŭl chungsim ŭro.” [Guild-government trade and Chosŏn‟s late nineteenth century economic crisis: focusing on the Myŏnjujŏn merchants]. In Lee Hun-chang ed. Chosŏn hugi chaejŏng kwa sijang. (SNU Press, August 2010). “The idea of stagnation in Korean historiography from Fukuda Tokuzō to the New Right.” Korean Histories 2.1, July 2010. “Marxism and East Asian History: From Eurocentrism and Nationalism to Marxist Universalism.” Marxism 21, Vol.7, No.3, Summer 2010. “Tobacco and the gift economy of Seoul merchants in the late nineteenth century.” SOAS-AKS Working Papers in Korean Studies, no. 3, May 2008. (http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/soas-aks/soas-aks-papers/) - Acknowledges support of AKS. Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to „Socialism with a Buddhist Face‟. (London: Global Oriental, 2008). (Translated with Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov.) “The Myŏnjujŏn documents: accounting methods and merchants' organisations in nineteenth century Korea.” Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, 7:1 (April 2007). “Ties of Labour and Ties of Commerce: Corvée labour among Seoul merchants in the nineteenth century.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 50:1 (March 2007).
Talks Nov. 2010 Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London. Organiser of panel “Historical Materialism, Universal History and East Asia”. Paper title: “Pyatchiki vs Aziatichki in Chosen: The Asiatic Mode of Production and colonial Korea” May 2010 SOAS Korean Studies Workshop: “Historians, clerks and accountants: Methodological issues in the use of sources on Chosŏn History”. Paper title: “Guild merchants‟ documents as historical sources”. Sept. 2009 Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Sheffield University, UK. Presented a paper entitled “The idea of stagnation in Korean historiography from Fukuda Tokuzō to the New Right.” August 2009 International Council of Asia Scholars: Sixth International Conference, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Panel organiser for: “Rediscovering Northeast Asian Marxisms.” June 2009 Association for Korean Studies in Europe. Biannual Conference at Leiden, Netherlands. Panel organiser for: “Dynamic Chosŏn? Social and economic change in 18th and 19th century Korea”. Paper entitled “Who were the merchants of nineteenth century
58 Korea?” Nov. 2008 Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London. Presented a paper entitled “The universal and the particular, progress and stagnation: Korean Marxist historiography between authoritarianisms.” June 2008 Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research, Seoul. Invited lecture: “Guild-government trade in late Chosŏn Korea and the crisis of the 1880s.” May 2008 Centre de Recherches sur la Corée, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Invited lecture: “Angry Merchants and Impecunious Government: Understanding commerce in nineteenth century Korea.” May 2008 East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge. Invited lecture: “Angry Merchants and Impecunious Government: Understanding commerce in nineteenth century Korea.” April 2008 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta. Paper entitled: “Guild-government trade in late Chosŏn and the crisis of the 1880s.” Dec. 2007 British Academy Conference: Social and Cultural Change in Late Premodern Korea Presented a paper entitled: “The crisis of Seoul's traditional commercial system, 1876-1895.” Nov. 2007 Historical Materialism Annual Conference, University of London. Presented a paper entitled “Commerce and the tributary mode of production: some observations from nineteenth century Korea.” October 2007 University of Michigan Korean Studies Symposium, invited lecture: “Understanding commerce in nineteenth century Korea.” Sept. 2007 Early Career Researchers‟ Conference on East Asia at Edinburgh University. Presented paper entitled “The mechanisms of commerce in the tributary state: some observations from nineteenth century Korea.” August 2007 Eighth ISKS Conference on Korean Studies held at SOAS. Presented paper entitled “Tobacco and the gift economy of Seoul merchants in the late nineteenth century.” April 2007 Association for Korean Studies in Europe. Biannual Conference at Dourdan, France. Presented paper entitled “Tobacco and the gift economy of Seoul merchants in the late nineteenth century.” October 2006 World Congress of Korean Studies, Cheju Island, Republic of Korea. Presented paper entitled “Guild-government trade in late Chosŏn: the Domestic Silk Guild and the crisis of the 1880s.”
(8.5) Dr. Jaehoon Yeon (Reader in Korean Language and Literature) During the grant period, Dr. Jaehoon Yeon acted as the director of the SOAS-AKS project. In this role, he has overseen the administration and execution of the AKS grant. He has also been the leader of one of the key grant project – the publication of the book Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (with Dr. Lucien Brown). In addition, he has been involved in the organization of several workshops and conferences that have been supported by the AKS funds, including the 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics and the 8th International Conference on Korean Studies.
Publications *** With AKS grant acknowledgement: 1. Authored Book 2011. (with L. Brown) Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge. London and New York. Xx+476pp [ISBN 978-0-415-60385-0]
2. Edited book 2010. (with Jieun Kaier) Selected Papers from the 2nd European Conference on Korean
59 Linguistics. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 77. Munchen: Lincom Europa [ISBN: 978 3 89586 592 3]
3. Chapters and Articles in Books 2010b. “Constraints on Double-Accusative External Possession Constructions in Korean: A Cognitive approach” In: J. Yeon & Jieun Kaier (eds.) Selected Papers of 2nd European Conference on Korean Linguistics. Lincom Europa
4. Articles in Academic Journals 2007a. Coding Conflict or Semantic Contrast?: The Grammatical Encoding of the Causee. Eoneohag (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea) No. 47: 33-59. [ISSN 1225-7494]
2008a. “Queries on the origin and the inventor of Hunmin jongum” SOAS-AKS Working Papers in Korean Studies, No.1. (published at www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies /soas-aks/soas-aks-papers/43078.pdf)
2008b. “Is there ergativity in Korean?: the definition of ergativity and other uses of the term „ergative‟” [in Korean] Han-Geul (Journal of the Korean Language Society) Vol. 282: 125-154. [ISSN: 1225-0449]
2010b. “Was the Korean alphabet a sole invention of King Sejong?” Journal of Korean Culture. Vol.14: 183-216. Seoul: The International Academic Forum of Korean Language and Literature. [ISSN: 1976-0744]
5. Reviews and Others 2010. “Was the Korean alphabet a sole invention of King Sejong?” In: Proceedings of the first International Scientific Conference on China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv of Ukraine.
*** Without AKS grant acknowledgement: 1. Authored Book 2010. (with M. Vincent) Complete Korean. Hodder Education. London. xxxii + 367pp. [ISBN 978-1-444-10193-5]
2. Edited book 2011. Current Issues in Korean Language Education in Europe [in Korean] Pagijong Press: Seoul. 331pp. [978-89-6292-154-0]
3. Chapters and Articles in Books 2010a. (with Lucien Brown) “Acquisition Studies on Relative Clauses and their relevance to Korean Language Teaching” In: Contemporary Korean Linguistics: International Perspectives. Edited by Robert J. Fouser. pp23-45. Thaehaksa: Seoul.
4. Articles in Academic Journals (both in English and Korean) 2007b. “Typology of Causative constructions” [in Korean] International Journal of Korean Studies (International Society of Korean Studies) Vol. 11: 243-276. [ISSN 1347-7307] 2008b. “Is there ergativity in Korean?: the definition of ergativity and other uses of the term
60 „ergative‟” [in Korean] Han-Geul (Journal of the Korean Language Society) Vol. 282: 125-154. [ISSN: 1225-0449] 2009. Review article on Prototypical Transitivity. Studies in Language Vol. 33-1. 233-239. Benjamins Publishing Co. [ISSN: 0378-4177] 2010a. (with Lucien Brown) “Experimental research into the phases of acquisition of Korean tense-aspect: Focusing on the progressive marker „-ko issta‟” [in Korean] Journal of Korean Language Education. Vol. 21-1: 151-173. 2010c. “Morpho-Syntactic contrasts between Korean and Japanese” Rivista Orientalia,
5. Reviews and Others 2008a. Review of The Korean Language: Structure, use, and context. By Jae Jung Song. Bulletin of SOAS. 70-1. 2008. 2008b. (with Lucien Brown) Chambers Korean Phrasebook. 192pp. Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. [ISBN 978 0550 10352 9]
(9) Conclusion During the period of the institutional grant, the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies has enhanced its standing and reputation as one of the leading institutions in Korean Studies both in the UK and across Europe. As detailed in the report above, the funds from the institutional grant have allowed the Centre of Korean studies to greatly extend its research activities and output. The Centre has hosted over 60 talks/seminars during the grant period, as well as sixteen workshops/conferences. In terms of publications, the most significant result of the project was the publication of Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar, which should prove to be an important text both in Korean language education and Korean linguistics for many years to come. With this increase in activities, we now publish a yearly newsletter entitled Korea at SOAS – Centre of Korean Studies Annual Review. This high quality review of our annual activities represents an excellent way of promoting our activities. Another positive contribution of this increased research activity has been the promotion of academic exchange and collaboration with other institutions. During the institutional grant period, SOAS has been involved in academic exchange programs or participated in seminars/lectures involving more than 50 institutions in Asia, North America, Australasia and, of course, Europe. We have placed special emphasis on establishing deep relationships with important Korean studies centres in the UK and Europe, such as Cambridge University (UK), Oxford University (UK), Leiden University (the Netherlands), EHESS (France), Paris 7 (France), INALCO (France), University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy), Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany) and Oslo University (Norway). In addition, we have recognized the need for collaboration with leading Korean institutions including, first and foremost, the Academy of Korean Studies and also the likes of Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University. Finally, we have been keen
61 to work alongside emerging forces in Korean studies, such as National Taras Shevchenko University (Ukraine). This collaboration was particularly meaningful as it led to the hosting of the first ever international Asian studies conference to be held in Ukraine and, ultimately, has contributed to raising the profile of Korean Studies in Ukraine. The increase in manpower facilitated by the institutional grant has contributed to the maintenance and creation of a number of Korea-related courses and programs. Dr. Charlotte Horlyck, in her lecturer position funded through the AKS grant, has taught undergraduate courses such as Contemporary Korean Arts in East Asia and Buddhist Arts of Korea and average student numbers have been 20-25 per year. At MA level Topics in Korean Material Culture have been offered to compliment other MA courses on Far Eastern art. This has greatly improved the expertise and range of Korean art courses at SOAS. In his research fellow position, Dr. Lucien Brown has worked in collaboration with Dr. Jaehoon Yeon to form a new MA program: MA Applied Linguistics (Korean Pathway). This has included the creation of a new core course: Korean Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. Thanks in no small part to the funding SOAS has received through the AKS grant, student numbers have substantially increased over the past four years. The intake of BA students specializing in Korean is now 25-30 per year compared to 8-12 per year 5 years ago. A steady increase in the number of MA students has also taken place, and the MPhil/PhD program remains traditionally strong. The growth of the postgraduate programs has been greatly assisted by the bursaries that we have been able to offer under the institutional grant project and also, more indirectly, by the increase in research activity enabled through the AKS grant. Finally, the grant has also had the positive effect of raising the profile of Korean studies within SOAS itself. The Director & Principal, Prof. Paul Webley and Chairman of the governing body, Dr. Tim Miller have developed deep interests in Korean Studies and further development of the Korean studies program at SOAS. Thanks to the latter, who is also the chairman of Standard Chartered Bank of Korea, Standard Chartered Banking Group is considering donating to SOAS. We believe that developments such as this would not have been possible without the AKS support. In sum, the support that the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies has received through the AKS institutional grant has played an important role in cementing SOAS as one of the leaders of Korean studies in Europe. We are confident that we can continue to be an important force in the promotion of Korean studies and, to this end, we look forward to further collaboration with AKS going forward.
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Personnel Information No. of Category Participation Period Participants Name Affiliation
Project Group 1 Dr. Jaehoon Yeon SOAS 09/2006-09/2011 Chair
Project Group 1 Dr. Anders Karlsson SOAS 09/2006-09/2011 Deputy Chair
Dr. Charlotte Horlyck
Dr. Owen Miller
Project Group 6 Dr. Lucien Brown All SOAS All Member 09/2006-09/2011 Dr. Grace Koh
Dr. Keith Howard
Dr. Stefan Knoob
(09/2006-09/2009)
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