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Organized by The Asian Studies Development Program, East-West Center and the Korean Studies Center, University of Hawai'i
Funded by The Korea Foundation

 
About this Institute
 
Orientation
   
Introduction: Who Are the Koreans? Then and Now
   
Archeological Evidence and the Rise of Korean Civilization
  Edward J. Shultz, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
shultz@hawaii.edu
 
Palais, James. "A Search for Korean Uniqueness." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Vol. 55:2, 1955
 
Economics
  Ji-soon Lee, Professor, Seoul National University
jisoon@snu.ac.kr
 
Lee, Ji-soon. "An Economic Analysis of the Korean Trade Policies: 1960-1990." Journal of Asian Economics. Vol. 3, No. 2, 1992.

Lee, Ji-soon. "Causes for Business Failures: Understanding the 1997 Korean Crisis." Journal of Asian Economics. Vol. 9, No. 4, 1998.
 
Classical Korean Literary Traditions
  Yung Hee Kim, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
 
Lee, Peter H., ed. Sourcebook of Korean Cibilization. Vol. 1. NY: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Lee, Peter H., ed. Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century. Honolulu: University Press of Hawai'i, 1981.

Rutt, Richard and Kim Chong-un, trans. Virtuous Women: Three Classic Korean Novels. Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, 1974.

Phil, Marshal R. The Korean Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
 
Korean Literature: Contemporary Perspectives
  Yung Hee Kim, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
yunghee@hawaii.edu
 
Kaufman, Burton I. "Preface." The Korean Conflict. Greenwood Press, 1999.

Hwang, Sunwon. "Cranes." Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Peter H. Lee. University of Hawai'i Press, 1990.

Pak, Wanso. "Winter Outing." Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction. Trans. & Ed. Marshall R. Pihl and Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton. M. E. Sharpe, 1998

Yoon, Heung-gil. "The Rainy Spell." The Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories. Trans. & Ed. Ji-moon Suh. M. E. Sharpe, 1998.

Deuchler, Martina. "The Tradition: Woman during the Yi Dynasty." Virtues in Conflict : Tradition an the Korean Woman Today. Ed. Sandra Mattielli. The Royal Asiatic Society, 1977.

Kim, Yung-Hee. "From Subservience to Autonomy: Kim Wonju's 'Awakening'." Korean Studies. Vol. 21, 1977.

Chu, Yo-sop. "Mama and the Boarder." A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction. Trans. & Ed. Chong-un Kim and Bruce Fulton. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Pak, Wanso. "These Ended My Days of Watching Over the House." My Very Last Possession and Other Sotries. Trans. Chun Kyung-Ja, et. al. M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

 
Overview of the History of the Choson Kingdom and Its Demise
  Yong-ho Ch'oe, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
choeyh@hawaii.edu
 
Lee, Peter H., ed. Sourcebook of Korean Civilization. Vol. 1 and 2, New York : Columbia University Press, 1993 & 1996.
 
Contemporary Korean Politics and Culture
  Hagen Koo, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
hagenkoo@hawaii.edu
 
Koo, Hagen. "Civil Society and Democracy in South Korea." The Good Society. 2002 (forthcoming as of August, 2002)
 
Social & Institutional Development since 1945
  Kwang Kyu Lee, Emeritus Professor, Seoul National University
kakklee@hanmail.net
 
Palais, James. "A Search for Korean Uniqueness." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Vol. 55:2, 1955
 
Shamanism
  Laurel Kendall, Ph.D., Curator, American Museum of Natural History
lkendall@amnh.org
 
Kendall, Laurel. Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
 
North Korea under Kim ll Sung and Kim Jong ll
  Haksoon Paik, Ph.D., Sejong Institute
hspaik@sejong.org
 
Highlights of Korea's Artistic Heritage
  Mariko Inoue, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
 
Smith, Judith G., ed. Arts of Korea. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

National Museum of Korea. 5,000 Years of Korean Art. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 1979.

Gompertz, G. St. G. M. Korean Celadon adn other Wares if the Koryo Period. London: Faber and Faber, 1963.

_____. Korean Potter and Porcelain of the Yi Period. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.

Kim, Chewon and Lena Kim Lee, eds. Arts of Korea. New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974.

Kim, Hongnam, ed. Korean Arts of the Eighteenthe Century: Splendor and Simplicity. New York: The Aisa Society Galleries, 1993.

Lee, Kyong-hee. Korean Culture: Legacies and Lore. Seoul: The Korea Herald Inc., 1995.

Samsung Foundation of Culture. Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum. 2 vols. Seoul: Samsung Foundation of Culture, 1996.

Medley, Margaret. Korean and Chinese Ceramics from the 10th to the 14th Century. Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1976.

Moes, Robert. Auspicious Spirits. International Exhibition Foundation, 1983.

Portal, Jane. Korea: Art and Archaeology. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Korean Art: 100 Masterpieces. Seoul: Editions API, 1995.

KOREANA: a Qurterly of Korean Art and Culture. Seoul: The Korea Foundation.

 
The Nature of the Korean Language
  Dong Jae Lee, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
 
Cho, Lee, Schultz and Sohn and Shon, eds. Integrated Korean: Beginning I. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.
 
The Nature of Korean Buddhism
  Robert Buswell, Professor, University of California at LA
 
Buswell, Robert. "Buddhism in Korea." The Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Micea Eliade. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Buswell, Robert. "The Koryo Period." Buddhist Spirituality, Vol. 2: Later China, Korea, Japan and the Modern World. World Spirituality: An Encyclopedia History of the Religious Quest, Vol. 9. Ed. Takeuchi Yoshinori. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999.

 
Highlights of Koreas Education System
  Gay Reed, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
 
Lee, Sungho H. "South Korea." Asian Higher Education: International Handbook and Reference Guide. Eds. Postglione and Mark.

Reed, Gay Garland and Sheena Choi. "Korea: Confucian Legacy, Global Future." Values Education for Dynamic Societies: Individualism or Collectivism. Eds. William K. Cummings, Maria Teresa Tatto, and John Hawkins.

 
Korean Efforts to Regain National Sovereignty from Japan, 1905-1945
  Byung-Yool Ban, Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
   
Current Politics & Society in South Korea
  Chan Wook Park, Professor, Seoul National University
   
Korean Music
  Byong Won Lee, Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
   
 
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