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Nam Center for Korean Studies
Recent News
NCKS faculty member, David Chung, interviewed for feature in The Michigan Daily
The Michigan Daily article explores the Soviet Union’s forced deportation of ethnic Koreans from Russia to Kazakhstan in the 1930s.
Congratulations to Yunah Sung on the University Librarian Achievement Award
The Nam Center is delighted to congratulate Yunah Sung, Korean Studies Librarian & Project Manager and a member of the Nam Center Executive Committee, on receiving the University Librarian Achievement Award from the University of Michigan!
The Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan International Institute encourages social, political, cultural, and economic understanding of Korea in the U-M community and beyond. Through its student and faculty support and ambitious public programming, the center seeks to increase the depth and breadth of resources devoted to Korean studies.
Events
Oct
07
Multi
Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea
12:00 PM
Duderstadt Center
Oct
08
NCKS Colloquium Series | Growth and Instability: New Varieties and Agricultural Production in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Duol Kim, Myongji University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
22
NCKS Colloquium Series | Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand
Jinwon Kim, Smith College
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
30
Multi
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea | Transpacific Lives in an Americal Century: Ilhan New as Method
9:00 AM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
