<div>Please post this ad. Thank you!</div><div>Please note that the job application site will open on March 12th.</div><div><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>

</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Post-doctoral
Fellow in Korean Studies</span></b></div>

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School of Modern Languages and Cultures</span></b></p>

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Cultural Interactions)</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Applications are invited for appointment as<span> </span>Post-doctoral Fellow in </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Korean
Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC), f</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">rom September 1, 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white"> on a mutually agreed date</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">,<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">for a period of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">three</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
years.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">Information about the School can be obtained at </span><a href="http://www.smlc.hku.hk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">http://www.smlc.hku.hk/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">.  Enquiries about the
post should be sent to Professor Louise Edwards (e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:ledwards@hku.hk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;background:white">ledwards@hku.hk</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";background:white">) or Professor Su Yun Kim (e-mail: <a href="mailto:suyunkim@hku.hk" target="_blank">suyunkim@hku.hk</a>) at SMLC</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>




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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Applicants
should have a Ph.D. degree in hand by the time of appointment from Korean
Studies disciplines. The successful candidate should also possess native or
near-native fluency in both Korean and English with research interests in
Sino-Korea cultural interactions, broadly defined. Applicants with knowledge of
the digital humanities would be viewed especially favorably. The candidate
will have opportunity to offer one course per year in the School of Modern
Languages and Cultures’ growing interdisciplinary Korean Studies Programme.</span></p>

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should send a completed application form, a letter of application, CV, a
writing sample of scholarly work, an abstract of a current research project,
and three reference letters to </span><a href="mailto:smlcsena@hku.hk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">smlcsena@hku.hk</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>




<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Application
forms (341/1111) can be obtained at <a href="http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc" target="_blank">http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc</a>.  Further particulars can be obtained at <a href="http://jobs.hku.hk/" target="_blank">http://jobs.hku.hk/</a>.  <b><u>Closes April 15, 2013</u></b>.</span>  <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The University thanks
applicants for their interest, but advises that only shortlisted applicants
will be notified of the application result.</span></p>

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-- <br>Dr. Su Yun Kim<br>Assistant Professor in Korean Studies<br>School of Modern Languages and Cultures<br>University of Hong Kong</p><div><br></div>