 This
is the Summer Institute on Korean Culture
and Society funded by the Korea Foundation and organized
by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP),
a joint program of the University of Hawai`i and
the East-West Center (EWC).
Since its inception in 1991, the Infusing Asian
Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum summer
institute series has focused on East Asia, but
with overwhelming attention given to Japan and
China. As a corrective, and much inspired by the
late Marshall Pihl, ASDP conceived a series of
institutes devoted to exploring the role of Korea
as the nexus of East Asia.
With Korea Foundation funding, the first Korean
Culture and Society Summer Institute was hosted
in 1997. The program included two weeks of lectures
at the East-West Center in Honolulu on Korean
history, literature, religion, politics and film,
and two weeks of field study in Seoul and other
cultural sites throughout South Korea. Troughout
the institute, particular attention was given
to placing Korea in dynamic interation with its
neighbors in East Asia. The second institue in
the series was hosted in the summer of 2000.
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