Korea

KIM Jean-young is Professor, Dept. of Russian Language and Literature at Yonsei University. She did undergraduate study at Wheaton, Mass., and graduate study at Yale (Ph.D. in Slavic, '92). Aside from a semester stay as an exchange student in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), one full sabbatical year was spent at the St. Petersburg State University as an exchange professor (1997-98). Her main scholarly interest is in  Russian Romanticism and poetry, and comparative study of Russian and Korean literatures. 

Professor Kim is a scholar in Six Dynasties literature, especially Chinese literary sketches. He is a professor in Yonsei University, Department of Chinese Language and Literature. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature. The former was received from Seoul National  University, and the latter was from Yonsei University. His research at the Harvard-Yenching Institute was titled "The Historical Meaning of theTai-ping guang-ji, the early Song Dynasty collection of ancient Chinese fictions."

JUNG Geung-Sik is Associate Professor, College of Law at Seoul National University, South Korea. His project at the Harvard-Yenching Institute examined the modes of acceptance and transformation of the Zhu Hsi's Family Ritual(朱子家禮) in the traditional society of Korea, Japan and China from comparative perspectives. He will think over universality as well as particularity of the Li (禮). And he will try to build a theory about the acceptance and the changes in norms and laws from the East Asian viewpoints.

Seung-Mi Han is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Her current research interests are citizenship, nationality, and globalization as well as the culture industry in the information age. She has written on late Meiji colonial travel writing, politics of identity in a Japanese local industry, consumption of Japanese culture in contemporary Korea, politics and ethos of the New Community Movement during the South development era, and humanitarian aid to North Korea by South Korean NGOs.

Julie Choi is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University. Her research undertaken during her year at Harvard-Yenching Institute was published in New Literary History (2006) under the title “The Metropolis and Mental Life in the Novel.” She served as Editor-in-Chief for Feminist Studies in English Literature from 2007-2009. More recently, Professor Choi has been working on the early woman writer, Mary Astell, publishing several articles as well as giving a paper at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in July 2011 in Graz, Austria. She has extended her research interests to incorporate cultural critique of contemporary Korean culture and the rise of Hallyu.

CHO Young Hun's  main field of research is socio-economic history in the Ming-Qing period (1368-1911). He has lectured on pre-modern Chinese History in Seoul National University. The theme of his MA thesis was “The Changes of the Salt Distribution System and the Salt  Merchants in Yangzhou during the Ming Period. His Ph. D. dissertation was on the relation between the rise and fall of the merchants of Huizhou and the Grand Canal during the Ming-Qing period. This thesis aimed at both comparing rival merchant groups and focusing on the Grand Canal as the arena of their mercantile activities.