[KS] Re: Cambridge DJ Centre

[James H Grayson]

17 March, 2000

I concur with everything which has been said by Prof. Pratt of 
Durham and Dr. Pak of SOAS, London about the proposed Kim 
Dae-jung Centre for Korean Studies at Cambridge.  Funding for 
Korean Studies in the UK should be concentrated in those 
institutions which already have well established programmes - such 
as here at Sheffield, in London, or at Oxford - and not further 
dispersed to new institutions. It is also surprising that Cambridge 
should be chosen for this largesse because there is no programme 
of Korean Studies there at all, and their library representative no 
longer attends meetings of the library co-ordinating body, the Korea 
Library Group, because the collection is so small. I am deeply upset 
that political considerations seem to have overridden commonsense 
in planning for the development of our field of study.


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Dr. J.H.Grayson, 
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences

and Director
Centre for Korean Studies       Tel.: +44 114 222-8418
School of East Asian Studies    Fax: +44 114 222-8432
University of Sheffield         
Sheffield     S10 2UJ  UK       email: J.H.Grayson at Sheffield.ac.uk
                                                         


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