[KS] Fulbright Korea eNEWS

[Horace H. Underwood]

Dear Fellow Korean-Studies subscribers.

Below I have posted the first issue of the "Fulbright Korea eNEWS,"
the electronic newsletter of Fulbright in Korea.  I have posted this in the
trust that there is some interest among the subscribers in what is
happening in Korea, including Fulbright.  Some korean-studies
subscribers may be on our regular email list for the eNEWS and thus
get two copies - if you will let me know I will try to fix the lists.

Thank you for your forbearance in this new experiment!

Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director
Korean-American Educational Commission (Fulbright)
Seoul, Korea
hhu at fulbright.or.kr

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VOLUME 1, NO. 1  (MARCH 1999)

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Contents:
--Newsletter in Electronic Format
--First Electronic Placement of Korean Fulbright Lecturers
--Korean High School Teacher to USIA Summer Institute
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NEWSLETTER IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT

Welcome to the first edition of Fulbright Korea eNEWS, KAEC's electronic
newsletter.  Since I became Executive Director almost a year ago, a number
of people have asked where the newsletter went.  However, a broad survey of
alumni revealed that though some had received the last newsletter (several
years ago) nobody could remember anything in it.  As the KAEC has come more
and more to rely on email and electronic communication, and as Korea is more
and more a technologically advanced country, it seems time to try a
newsletter entirely in electronic format.  This newsletter is the first
issue, and as far as we can tell, the first among Fulbright Commissions
around the world to go entirely to an electronic format for a newsletter.
(There is an electronic Fulbright newsletter from Washington for the whole
program.)  The advantages are in speed of delivery, ease of creation,
informality, low cost, and the possibility of sending frequent short
newsletters rather than occasional out-of-date ones.  We are using plain
text, not html, no graphics, and the simplest possible formatting in order
to make our message readable by the widest possible range of browsers,
viewers, and email systems.  Through this we hope to keep Fulbright Korea
more visible among Fulbright alumni, Korean Studies specialists, supporters,
and friends.

If you know of anyone who would be interested in receiving this newsletter
in the future, please send the person's email address to the editor at:
newsletter at fulbright.or.kr     Or just tell us that you got the newsletter.
Or tell us if you had trouble dealing with the format for any reason.  I
hope to hear from you.  (If you really want to get off the list, let us
know.  I hope not to hear from you.)

Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director, KAEC
Editor, Fulbright Korea eNEWS




FIRST ELECTRONIC PLACEMENT OF KOREAN LECTURERS

KAEC has successfully completed the placement in American universities of
three Korean lecturer/researchers.  This is only the second year of this new
program for sending Korean faculty to lecture in American universities,
beginning to balance the Fulbright American studies lecturers coming to
Korea.  There was difficulty in placing the two lecturers we sent the first
year.  They ended up placing themselves and teaching regular courses in
their academic fields, not courses related to Korean studies.

This year KAEC publicized the opportunity on the Korean-Studies listserv,
and five Korean Studies programs at American universities made firm offers
to host a Korean studies scholar.  KAEC increased the number of grantees
from two to three, and all three have been placed (pending BFS
confirmation).  The following Fulbright lecturers will be teaching in the
United States for the 1999-2000 academic year:

Prof. OH Mira, Yoju Institute of Technology (Ph.D. Ewha) teaching Korean
linguistics at UCLA
Prof. CHOI Sang Rim, Hanyang University, (Ph.D. Michigan) teaching Korean
business at UPenn
Prof. HAN Suk Chong from Dong-A University, (Ph.D. Chicago) teaching Korean
sociology and literature at UC Irvine

KAEC considers the placements this year through the Korean-Studies listserv
to be successful beyond our wildest dreams, creating a precise match between
professors who want to go and universities who want their specific Korean
studies skills.  We will definitely do it again next year.



KOREAN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER TO USIA SUMMER INSTITUTE

This year, for the first time ever, KAEC will send a Korean high school
teacher to attend a "Fulbright Summer Institute for the Study of the U.S.
for Foreign Secondary School Teachers."   The Institute, to be held at UMass
(Amherst), is a USIA-sponsored program to increase awareness of American
culture at the secondary level.

KAEC's highly successful English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) program has
put up to 30 young American college graduates in Korean middle and high
schools outside of Seoul each year for the last seven years.  In order to
build synergies between the effect of the American teachers and the Korean
schools involved, schools were invited to submit one application each for
selection for the Summer Institute.

We expected maybe five or six applications.  We received fourteen and
interviewed them all.  The top applicants were amazing teachers, highly
motivated, creative, fluent in English, and anxious to learn more about
American culture.  The top selectee was Mr. KIM Gilwon, an English teacher
from Kyongil High School in Andong who is active on the provincial Board of
Education Curriculum Committee.  Mr. Kim has spent years introducing foreign
visitors to the Andong area.

One thing KAEC learned - next year we need TWO places in that Summer
Institute!




To end this first eNEWSletter we bring special greetings to all of you from:

        Horace H. Underwood, Executive Director
        Shim Jai Ok, Deputy Director
        James Larson, Associate Director
        and all the staff of the Korean American Educational Commission!



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