[KS] University of Pennsylvania's James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies

[Eugene Y. Park]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce that the University of Pennsylvania's James 
Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies now has its own website 
(http://www.sas.upenn.edu/koreanstudies/index.html). As explained on the 
website, UPenn's Kim Program in Korean Studies (formerly Center for 
Korean Studies) is endowed by a generous gift of $6 million from Mr. 
James Joo-Jin Kim, who is Executive Chairman of Amkor Technology. Also, 
a recent anonymous gift of $1.5 million from Moon family (they requested 
that only the family name is made public) is endowing a Korean studies 
postdoctoral fellowship. I would appreciate it very much if you could 
please list our site link on whatever website that you maintain.

The Kim Program is in the process of implementing all of its program 
components. They include lecture series (Korean Studies Colloquium, 
Korea Current Affairs Forum, and Philip Jaisohn Distinguished Lecture), 
graduate fellowships, short-term research grants for Penn faculty and 
students, postdoctoral fellowships, and visiting professorships. Some of 
these components are already in place. I would like to think that our 
website provides all the basic information, but both in terms of design 
and content, we are still working on improving them. So please let me 
know if you have any question about Korean studies at Penn. I especially 
encourage prospective graduate students to check out our website and 
contact me.

Best regards,

Gene Park
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Eugene Y. Park
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
University of Pennsylvania