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Register Now | 2016 U-M East Asian Immersion Teacher Workshop

Teaching a 5,000 year Korean performance tradition across borders

Congratulations to our Postdoc!

Nam Center grad student named Outstanding GSI!

Nam Center faculty associate quoted in The Korea Times

The Ambassasdor of the Republic of Korea to the US, Ho-Young Ahn, gives the 5th Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture

대한 민국 무력 정치사 (Taehan Min'guk muryŏk chŏngch'isa)

Nojin Kwak receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Call for Papers | Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2016 Conference

2016-2017 Nam Center Post-Doc Fellowship in Korean Studies

Nojin Kwak appointed chair of the Department of Communication Studies

The Nam Center welcomes two new post-doctoral fellows

Program for 2016 Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference Available Online

Call for Papers | 2017 Digital Asia: Recent Research and Practice, ICA Preconference

Call for Papers | 2017 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

NEW TIME for Korean Cinema NOW series! | Films start at 1:00 PM on Saturdays.

Dean Martin interviewed by the Korea Times

Nam Center faculty Youngju Ryu's book recognized by "Foreign Affairs"

Call for Applications | Korean Studies Pedagogy Workshop for Junior Faculty

Nam Center post-doc research featured in LSA Today

Announcing a new website for the U-M Group in Buddhist Studies

Register Now | 2017 U-M East Asian Immersion Teacher Workshop

Nam Center affiliated graduate student inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Nam Center affiliated graduate student receives a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Nam Center faculty Jaeeun Kim's book recognized by the American Sociological Association

Call for Applications | 2017 Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference Travel Grants

Nam Center PostDoc Fellow, Jiun Bang, named as one of the Next Generation in political science research on Korea and East Asia

Nam Family featured in StoryCorps interview

Nam Center Faculty Youngju Ryu and Jaeeun Kim take Association for Asian Studies 2018 book prizes for Korea

Nam Center affiliated alumnus now assistant professor in political science

Nam Center Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies Applications Due April 8

Announcing the 2018 Sang-Yong Nam Award Winners

2017 Summer in Michigan Program Hiring Cultural Liaisons

2018 Summer in Michigan Program Hiring Cultural Liaisons

Nam Center faculty member Youngju Ryu named Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2018-19

Nam Center Postdoctoral Fellow Jiun Bang discusses the Korean summit with PBS

Nam Center Faculty E. Han Kim discusses the recent developments between North and South Korea on WJR (Detroit)

Religion, Politics and Happiness in Korea Conference

Nam Center's 8th annual celebration of Chuseok

2019 Digital Asia International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference CFP Released

Nam Center Graduate Fellows Program

11/27/2018 is #GivingBlueDay!

Nam Center Faculty, Joan Kee, featured in "WolganMisul," one of Korea's largest art magazines

New Korea-related collection at the Asia Library

Nam Center Faculty David Chung featured in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review

Congratulations to Joan Kee and Jaeeun Kim!

Nam Center Cosponsors UMMA Exhibit | Copies and Invention in East Asia

Nam Center Research Fellows awarded at Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference with USC

2020 Sang Yong Nam Award Winner

Youngju Ryu on NPR's "Marketplace"

Dir. Nojin Kwak leaves a lasting legacy at the Nam Center

How to participate in Korean Cinema NOW 2021

2021 Yenching Academy Scholar

LTI Call for Applications to the 2021 Korean Literature Review Contest

Youngju Ryu appointed director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies

Nam Center receives Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) grant

11th Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference: Reclaiming the City

10th Annual Undergraduate Exchange Conference

“No one burned brighter as a symbol, an icon of democracy in the 1970s and ’80s. No writer was as great, and that part of it I think is something that we need to remember."

9th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Scholar Spotlight: Thomas Michael Ryan

“K-ArtSong” - A Korean Art Song Recital

Congratulations, Se-Mi Oh promoted to associate professor of Asian languages and cultures, with tenure!

Y. David Chung Honored with Rackham Master’s Mentoring Award

Congratulations, NCKS director Youngju Ryu promoted to professor of Asian languages and cultures!

Jaeeun Kim and Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong Named Korea Foundation Professors

Apply for Sang-Yong Nam Award by February 15

Apply for Summer in Korea by February 15

New book by Youngju Ryu: Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea

Interview with Professor Jaeeun Kim on the Nam Center blog

Joan Kee, associate professor of history of art, and her work were cited in an article about Korean monochrome painting, or tansaekhwa. The Nation

Check out the new Nam Center blog!

Call for Papers: 2016 New Media and Citizenship in Asia (ICA) Preconference

Call for Papers: 4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Annual Chuseok Party covered in the Michigan Weekly!<br>(Korean language article)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUG 21 for the 2015 Nam Center Professional Development Workshop for Educators

Nam Center hosts students from Korea in the Summer in Michigan Program in English Language

Congratulations to Summer in Korea Scholarship Recipients

KAFE Travel Grant Recipient Announced

Call for Papers! Digital Korea: History, Use, and Effects of New Communication Technologies

Nam Center Faculty member David Chung's work acquired for the Whitney's permanent collection

Nico Howson explains foreign corporate structure in light of proposed Chinese law

New Publication: Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

Applications for 2015 travel grant for Michigan educators to attend the Korea Academy for Educators seminar in Los Angeles, CA due April 26, 2015 6pm (ET).

Nam Center director Nojin Kwak on surging Korean language course enrollments: Inside Higher Ed

PhD Candidate Nora Hauk featured in LSA today

Applications for Summer in Korea and Sang-Yong Nam Awards Due February 15

Korea from A Single Shard Grant Recipients Announced

Myung-Whun Chung coming to Ann Arbor with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Jonson Porteux (Ph.D. Political Science 2013) featured in Joongang Ilbo (article in Korean only)

A2KIFF2014 lineup announced!

Nam Center K-12 programs featured in <i>Detroit Teacher</i>

Registration open for Korea teacher workshop

Congratulations to Joan Kee and Youngju Ryu!

K-12 Educators: Call for 2014 KAFE Summer Seminar Travel Grant Applications!

Hiroaki Matsusaka awarded KF Korean Language Training Fellowship

Congratulations to BoRin Kim on her new faculty position!

Nam Center Graduate student Joo Young Lee Recognized!

The work of David Chung featured in multiple events in Houston TX | April 2014

Congratulations to the 2014 Sang-Yong Nam Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2014 Summer in Korea Scholarship Recipients

CeDEM Asia 2014 Call for Papers Now Open!

Korean Studies and the New Digital Classroom

Nam Center activities for Winter 2014 featured in The Michigan Korean Weekly newspaper. Follow the link to read the full article (in Korean).

Korea Foundation Newsletter Features e-School

<i>Korean Cinema NOW</i> screening schedule available

Nam Center Winter 2014 Colloquium Lineup posted

Call for Papers--2014 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

2012-2013 Newsletter Viewable Online!

Deadline Extended to 1/1/14--ICA Preconference Call for Papers

Nam Center Administrator Connects with Korean Roots at Home

Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture and Award Presentation

Special Lecture by Dong-Choon Kim

Sang-Yong Nam Award

Study Abroad in Seoul 2013 Information Session

ICA 2013 Preconference Call for Papers

The Great Chuseok Party

Korean Studies Faculty Search

Nam Center Undergraduate Fellows Program

Hallyu 2.0 Conference In Review

Hallyu 2.0 : The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

U-M Korea Quiz Bowl

KAFE Travel Grant

$ 2.9 Million Major Gifts and Grants

Photos from the 2011 Great Chuseok Party!

2011-2012 Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowships Recipients

The 2011 International Institute Photo Contest is now accepting submissions

NCKS would like to congratulate 2011 SeAH-Haiam Arts and Sciences Scholarship recipients

Article and photos for the Republic of Korea Ambassador to the US, Ho-Young Ahn's talk at the Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture

Colloquium Series

Conferences & Symposia

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Digital Korea: History, Use, and Effects of New Communication Technologies

Program: Digital Korea

Digital Korea: Location

Cultures of Yushin: The 1970s in South Korea

Program: Cultures of Yushin: The 1970s in South Korea

(Re)-Discovering Sport

Transgression as a Secular Value

Program for Transgression as a secular value

Transgression: Nancy Abelmann

Transgression: Christopher P. Hanscom

Cyborgs and Castaways: "Thoughtful Transgressions" Toward an Ecumenopolitics

Unfinished Business: Transgression as a Secular Value?

Perception of Gender Role and Sexuality in South Korean Advertisements: Transgression or Confucian Dynamism?

Flesh in the Closet: The Secret Wife Tradition among Eminent Monks of Korean Buddhism

Virtuous Slaves: Gendered Imaginations of Loyalty in Late Chosŏn Korea

Tradition and Transgression in the Korean Legal System

Portrait of an Epileptic as a Murderess: Locating Transgression in the Case of a Modern Cannibal

Stories of Cruel Youth: the South Korean Anti-Teen Film

"Let Us Boil Our Parents' Blood and Bones!"

Allures of Transgression: Traditions and Salsa Dance in South Korea

Transgressive Academic All-Stars and Conventional Teen Idols

Political Conversion as an Act of Transgression

The Trickster as Transgressor in Traditional Korean Society

Secular Transgression of Subversion as Divine Prescription: No Yông’s Painted Lacquer Revisitied

Transgression as a Secular Value: Participants

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2016 | Korean Families in Economic and Demographic Transitions: Parenting, Children's Education, and Social Mobility

Program: Korean Families

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017

Program | Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017

Ju Hui Judy Han

Flowsion Shekar

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2018

Call for Papers | Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2018

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2018 | Conference Program

Buddhist Sustainable Happiness

Secular Happiness and Ultimate Happiness in the Story of the Monk Josin’s Dream of the "Samguk Yusa"

Buddhism, Meditation, and the Happiness Crisis in South Korea: In Pursuit of Emptiness or Happiness?

Divination and Its Potential Futures: Sensation, Scripts, and the Virtual in South Korean Eight-Character Fortune Telling

"Happiness Is Here and Now": Repackaging Buddhism for an Ailing Nation

Here and Now: The Art and Politics of Happiness of South Korean Millennials

The Ssial as a Paradigmatic Reconciliation on Happiness

Gender, Generation and Church Politics: Café Religiosity as an Answer to Disillusionment with Megachurches in South Korea

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2019

Schedule | Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2019

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21

Reclaiming the City

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2022

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2023 | The Creative and Transformative Spirit of Korean Music

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2024 | The Politics of Migration, Diaspora, and Race in Transnational Korea

4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) Program

4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) Location

NEKST 2016 Program

2016 New Media and Citizenship in Asia (ICA) Preconference

Presenters | 2016 New Media and Citizenship in Asia (ICA) Preconference

2016 New Media and Citizenship in Asia (ICA) Presenters

2nd International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

NEKST 2014 Program

Modernity over the Screen: A Study on “A Short Story from Movies” of Chosun Ilbo

A Study on 1960s and 1990s Japanese Pop Culture Discourses: Koreans’ Long...

Forgetting Daechuri: An Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage on the Violent Eviction of Daechuri and Activism during the Expansion of USFK Camp Humphreys

First Love and Remasculinization

Stone Gorge Lee: Medicine, Confucianism, and Political Dissent in Colonial Period Korea

A Half Success: The First Olympics for Colonial Korea

A Study on Yi Gwang-su’s Autobiographical Novel of the Period of Liberation

Shortsighted North Korean Defectors Resettlement Policy in South Korea: Policy Analysis and Alternatives

China’s Triple-Korea Problem: Transborder Peoples and Transborder Sentiments

Building Trust on the Korean Peninsula: An Assessment of ‘Trustpolitik’ for Inter-Korean Relations and Northeast Asia

The Rise of Late Study Abroad: South Korean Educational Migrants in Los Angeles

The Testimony of the Printing Form: The Translation of Tyeonroryukjeong (1895) and the Traditions of Korean Language in the late 19th Century

“Hanshi (Literary Chinese Poetry) Modernism” and the Formative Stages of Modern Poetry in 1920’s Korea: Focusing on Translation of Hanshi and the Creation of “Noble Poem” – Chosun’s first Modern Poet Kim Uk

Translating Western Modernity in Lee Shanhyŏp’s Adaptive Translation of Mary Braddon’s Run to Earth

Needs for Identity: Appropriation of Existentialism in Critical Writings in the Liberation Period, 1945-1950

Embedded agenda: Writing about Music in an Eighteenth-century Korean Encyclopedia

The Probability of Time: A Preliminary Research on The Influence of Jinguqiguan今古奇觀 on Narrative Time Sense of Joseon Readers

Let Them Eat Royal Court Cuisine!: Re-imagining the Food of the Joseon Dynasty as the Prototype of Korean Cuisine

Modernity over the Screen: A Study on “A Short Story from Movies” of Chosun Ilbo

International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Program: Translating Value and the Value of Translation

Translation and the Colonial Desire for Transparency

3rd International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

NEKST 2015 Program

(Re)-Discovering Sport in Korea: Guts, Glory, and Geurimja

(Re)-Discovering Sport - Program

A Philosophical Problem of the Korean Church’s Missiological Use of Sports

A Study on the Advanced Strategies through the Sustainability of Korean Sport Diplomacy

Becoming a Member of the Japanese National Football Team as a Korean: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Trials and Colonial Korea

Slowly but Surely: The Way of Civic Movement for Justice in Sport

In Anticipation of Korean Curt Flood: Comparative Analysis of Antitrust and Labor Law Implications on Korean Professional Baseball League

Issues in League Design and Growth: What to Do When One City Dominates the Sports Scene

Substitution between Soccer and Baseball in South Korea

Changes in Habitual Attending in Korean Baseball Games

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies for Korean Professional Sport Leagues

I Am Happy to Support: Gauging Role of Emotion in an Enterprise's Sponsoring Charitable Sport Events

The Impact of Mega-Sporting Events on Host Country Image and Brand Perception: A Case of 2011 Daegu IAAF Championships

Opportunities and Challenges of Licensing Business in 2014 Incheon Asian Games

Sport Korea Beyond the Horizon

Soccer, Red Shirts, and Candle Lights: The Two Faces of South Korea’s Sports Nationalism

Value-Based Taekwondo: Future Directions for Business and Education

Diplomacy in Play: The Role of Sport in Early Korea-Israel Relations

Labor Migration to Korean Professional Baseball League and Its Implication

Unsung Players on the Frontline: An Examination of Sport Journalists in the Korean Press

Framing and Priming Effect of Commentary on Audiences Perception: The Moderating Role of Sport Nationalism

Influence of Spectator Service Satisfaction and Team Identification on Fans’ Re-Spectating Intention: Focusing on the Korean Basketball League

Opting for the LPGA, JLPGA, or KLPGA: Investigating Korean Professional Golfers' Motivations and Attitudes Regarding Tour Options

Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

2015 ICA Preconference

Media and Citizenship in Asia: Program

International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference 2014

ICA 2013 Conference Program

ICA 2012 Program

ICA 2012: Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano

ICA 2012: Mihye Seo, Shaojing Sun, Jinhee Kim

ICA 2012: Yunjuan Luo

ICA 2012: Patrick Sharbaugh

ICA 2012: Fei Shen

ICA 2012: Weiyu Zhang, Joanne Lim Bee Yin

ICA 2012: Desideria Murti

ICA 2012: Natalie Pang, Debbie Goh

ICA 2012: Jun Liu

ICA 2012: Rajiv G. Aricat

ICA 2012: Tetsuro Kobayashi, Jeffrey Boase, Takahisa Suzuki

ICA 2012: Kai Khium Liew, Natalie Pang, Brenda Chan

ICA 2012: Sujin Choi, Han Woo Park

ICA 2012: Nojin Kwak, Scott Campbell, Dam Hee Kim

Conference Participants

Call for Papers 2015 ICA Preconference

Program: Media and Citizenship in Asia

(Re)-Discovering Sport in Korea: Guts, Glory, and Geurimja

Rediscovering Sport Program

Rediscovering Sport Photos

Call for Papers 2015 ICA Preconference

International Communication Association (ICA) Preconference 2014

Program: ICA New Media Preconference 2014

The Fourth NAOKOL

The Third NAOKOL

Modernities in Korean Art - A Workshop

2016 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by U-M)

2015 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by USC)

2014 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by U-M)

2013 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by USC)

2017 Digital Asia: Recent Research and Practice, ICA Preconference

2017 NEKST Abstracts

NEKST 2017 Program

Korean Studies Pedagogy Workshop for Junior Faculty

Korean Communication Research and Practice: Looking Back, Looking Forward

2018 Digital Asia: Social Change, Engagement, and Voices

6th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars

2018 NEKST | Call for Papers

NEKST 2018 Program

2019 Digital Asia: Social Change, Engagement, and Communication Beyond Boundaries

2017 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by USC)

2018 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by U-M)

7th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars

2019 NEKST | Call for Papers

2019 NEKST Conference Program

2018 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

2020 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (Cancelled)

2019 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by USC)

2020 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by U-M)

8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars: Encountering Difference

2020 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

9th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

2021 Annual Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange (hosted by USC)

2022 Korean Studies Undergraduate Exchange Conference (hosted by U-M)

2019 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

2021 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

2022 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

10th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

11th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Concerned Asian Scholars, 55 Years Later: A Symposium

2023 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

2024 Korean Studies Manuscript Workshop for Junior Faculty

Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture

Signature Artist Residency

Videos of Past Events

Archived Events | 2007-15

4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Words of Times, Writings of Desire: Our Study on Korean Cultural History and Literature through Journals

Korean Cinema NOW | Ode to My Father

Korean Cinema NOW | Cart

Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America

Korean Cinema NOW | My Love, Don't Cross That River

Hanji: The Art of Korean Papermaking | Hanji Art for All Ages

Hanji: The Art of Korean Papermaking | Hanji Art for All Ages

Hanji: The Art of Korean Papermaking | The History and Creative Applications of Hanji

Hanji: The Art of Korean Papermaking | From East Asia to the Great Lakes: Korean Paper at Home and Abroad

Korean Cinema NOW | Thread of Lies

Nam Center Colloquium Series: Planning Assessment in a Proficiency Oriented Foreign Language Program: A Backward Design

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Idols of Development: The Performance of Asian Modernity via Queer Thai K-Pop Fandom

Modernities in Korean Art - A Workshop

Modernities in Korean Art - A Workshop

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Yalta Conference and the Division of the Korean Peninsula

Korean Cinema NOW | Tazza: The Hidden Card

Korean Cinema NOW | How to Steal a Dog

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Contested Diffusion of Human Rights: Evidence from the South Korean Print Media, 1990-2010

Korean Cinema NOW | Gangnam Blues

Korean Cinema NOW | Revivre

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Making a New Metropolis in Seoul : ‘The Age of 86·88’ as a Catalyst of Gangnaminization

Nam Center Presents | Comrade Kim Goes Flying

Digital Korea | History, Use, and Effects of New Communication Technologies

Digital Korea | History, Use, and Effects of New Communication Technologies

Nam Center Colloquium Series | New developments in 'Kongron politics' during the late Choson -18th and 19th Centuries: 'Local Councils' and 'People's Assemblies'

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Pieta (2012)

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Bad Guy (2002)

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003)

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Rough Cut (2008)

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Time (2006)

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Moebius (2013)

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Progeny of Fallen Royals: Kaesong Wang in Choson Korea

Nam Center for Korean Studies | Chuseok Dae Party

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Wave in Latin America: K-pop Reception and Participatory Fan Culture

Professional Development Workshop | Lives of Migration: Korea in Diaspora

3rd International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

3rd International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

The Kwangju Massacre after Thirty-Five Years: The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing: A Conversation with South Korean Writers LIM Chul-Woo and HAN Kang

Korean Cinema NOW: Whistle Blower

CANCELLED Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Polling, Public Opinion, and Political Responsiveness in Korea and Beyond

Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture

Information Session: Nam Center for Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellows Program

Korean Cinema NOW: The Admiral: Roaring Currents

Korean Cinema NOW: My Brilliant Life

CANCELLED<br>Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Planning Assessment in a Proficiency Oriented Foreign Language Program: A Backward Design

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Planning Assessment in a Proficiency Oriented Foreign Language Program

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Disappearance of Prophetic Voice from the Korean Church and Its Disservice to Korea

Korean Cinema NOW: Kundo: Age of the Rampant

Korean Cinema NOW: The Divine Move

Music of Strings and Wind from Korea: East Meets East: A Concert of Traditional East Asian Music

Music of Strings and Wind from Korea: Virginia Howard Lecture Series - Up Close: An Introduction to Korean Classical Music

Music of Strings and Wind from Korea Concert

Korean "Four Major River National Restoration" Project: Preliminary Outcomes and Ecological Changes

Korean Cinema NOW: Boomerang Family

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Fellowship Forum

Korean Cinema NOW: Hope

Korean Cinema NOW: A Hard Day

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: North Korea's Juche Myth, and the West's Juche Fallacy

Korean Cinema NOW: Miss Granny

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Diasporic Koreans and the Military, 1930-1960

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Park Su-Geun, the Bando Gallery, and Selling Korean Contemporary Art at Home and Abroad, 1950s-1970s

Conference on "Cultures of <i>Yushin</i>"

2014 Worldwide Lecture Tour: <i>2014 Creating a World Full of Hope</i>

Ven. Pomnyun Sunim Korean Lecture

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: My Place

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Non-Fiction Diary

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: 10 Minutes

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: Special Surpise Student Screening

A2KIFF, The Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival: One for All, All for One

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: The Legacy of Disadvantaged Origins: Blocked Social Mobility of Descendants of Nobis in Late Joseon (Korea)

Maternal Guardians: Intimate Knowledge and Affective Boundary-Making Among South Korean Volunteers for Migrant Women

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series: Maternal Guardians: Intimate Knowledge and Affective Boundary-Making among South Korean Volunteers for Migrant Women

Chuseok Dae Party

Historic Korea TODAY

2nd International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)

Korean Cinema Now SURPRISE SCREENING: The Attorney

Nam Center Undergraduate Fellows Lecture: K-Pop: Where it Came From, Where it is Going, and Why it Matters

Nam Center Colloquium Series: The Remains of Colonial History

Korean Cinema Now: The Terror LIVE

Korean Classical Composers<br>EVENT CANCELLED

Nam Center Colloquium Series: The Vision of Korean Choral Music

University Choir and Michigan Youth Chamber Singers Concert

Nam Center Colloquium Series: Korean-Japanese Marriages in Colonial Korea

Korean Cinema Now: A Werewolf Boy

Master Recital: Mi-Eun Kim, piano

Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture: Korean Economy at a Crossroads: Aging, China & North Korea

Korean Cinema Now: How To Use Guys with Secret Tips

Korean Cinema Now: The Thieves

U-M Korea Quiz Bowl 2014

Korean Cinema Now: New World

Minhwa at Michigan: Hands-On Demonstration and Curator Talk

Nam Center Colloquium Series: The Janus of Tiger: Korean Decorative Painting, Magpie and Tiger

Minhwa at Michigan Lecture: The Janus of Tiger: Korean Decorative Painting, Magpie and Tiger

Minhwa at East Quad: A Korean Folk Art Experience for U-M Students

Minhwa at Michigan: Korean Folk Art Exhibition

Korean Cinema Now: All About My Wife

Nam Center Colloquium Series: Performance Presentation in Korean Poetry: "The Sijo"

Korean Cinema Now: The Berlin File

Korean Cinema Now: Cold Eyes

Nam Center Colloquium Series: "Reading Volcano Island: Reflections on Jeju 4.3 on its Sixty-Fifth Year"

Nam Center Colloquium Series: "Subjective Ecologies in the Films of Kim Ki-young and Kim Ki-Duk"

Nam Center Colloquium Series: "Everlasting Fraternal Friendship: North Korea and the End of Communism"

Nam Center Colloquium Series: "Korean (Language) Studies in the U.S. Higher Education: Evolution and Prospect"

(Re)-Discovering Sport in Korea: Guts, Glory, and Geurimja

Piano Chamber Masterclass, Aviram Reichert

Guest Recital and Masterclass, Aviram Reichert, Piano

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival<br>Planet of Snail (2012)

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival<br>Dooman River (2009)

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival<br>Breathless (2009)

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival<br>Bleak Night (2011)

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Independent Korean Film Festival: Dear Pyongyang (2005) Special Student Screening & Lecture

A2KIFF 2013: Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival<br>Jiseul (2013)

Nam Center Colloquium Series: Fellowship Forum

Chuseok Dae Party!

TEACHER WORKSHOP: Koreans, Who Are They? Reflections on Identity in a Globalized Korea

Information Session: Nam Center Undergraduate Fellowships

Women's Leadership to End the Korean War

Making Korean Films: Production Studies and Changing Production Cultures

Taekwondo as a global physical culture: Past, present, and future

Elder Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture

In Another Country

Journalistic Professionalism Revisited: A case study of citizen journalists at OhmyNews in South Korea

Journalistic Professionalism Revisited: A Case Study of Citizen Journalists at OhmyNews in South Korea

CANCELLED: Korean (Language) Studies in the U.S Higher Education: Evolution and Prospect.

Reflections on Korean Politics from Past to Present

Drawing Morality: the Visual Illustration and its Function in the Samgang Haengsil-to [Illustrated Guide to the Three Relations]

Chang Hyokchu and the Twentieth Century

Nameless Gangster

"A woman with a hot body but a baby face" and "a chic, smooth talker": Blending lexicon and shifting images on Korean TV.

The Royal Hunt in Korea: Koryo-Mongol Interactions in the Late Thirteenth Century

The Others within “us”: Multiculturalism and Ethnic Minorities in South Korean Cinema

Professional Sports in Korea and Comparison to the US Sports

Ann Arbor Korean Independent Film Festival

KOREA DAYS:ANN ARBOR

The Great Chuseok Party

Chuseok Dae Party!

Avant-Garde Routes for the Korean Diaspora

U-M STYLE VIDEO CONTEST

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Exhibition

Sappho in Red: Proletarian Literature, Gender and Colonial Korea

Hallyu 2.0: THe Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

In re Korea: Domain Name Disputes Under the UDRP.

A Clean Voice for an Advanced Nation: Singing in South Korean Christianity

Korean Tea Bowls in the World of Japanese Wabicha in Premodern Times

East Asia Immersion Workshop

China's Rise and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

DOUBLE FEATURE: TWO HOUSEMAIDS (1960/2010)

Reading Barbarians Hunting Screens: How the Manchus Were Viewed and Visualized in Late Choson Korea

No Regret (2006) 114 min.

My Dear Enemy (2008) 123 min.

Feeling for History: Non-Linear Time Structures in Contemporary Korean Cinema

The Chaser (2008) 125 min.

2011 Educator Film Workshop: The Way Home

Korean as a World Language

Youngja's Heydays (1975) 107 min.

Contemporary Korean Photography: How Artists use a photographic sensibility to produce new knowledge?

DOUBLE FEATURE: SWEET DREAM & MADAME FREEDOM

Apocalypse, Amnesia--and Kim Jong Il: Why the Korean War is 'Forgotten'

Secret Reunion (2010) 116 min.

Unnatural Selection: The Causes and Consequences of Asia’s Sex Ratio Imbalance

The Korean War in Color: The Nisei and The Japanese in the US Media, 1950 - 60

The Great Chuseok Party

East Asian Celebration at Top of the Park

Contemporary Korean Ceramics Exhibition

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