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The Society's Post-Graduate Bursary Programme

The Anglo-Korean Society, through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies, awards two annual bursaries to post-graduate students.

The bursaries are open to students of any nationality studying for a post-graduate degree at a British university. Their programme of study or research must be largely if not wholly focussed on Korea, past or present. For more details visit the BAKS website.

 

Bursary Recipients

Recipients for Academic year 2011-2012

Youkyung Ju

Youkyung Ju is a PhD candidate in Korean Language Research at the department of Japan and Korea, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and a Korean language instructor at the Korean Cultural Centre in London.

Prior to coming to SOAS, Youkyung taught Korean to foreign students at Sogang University in Korea. Additionally, she was the lead translator for a series of Sogang Korean textbooks, levels 1A to 3B.

Youkyung earned her MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 2005. Prior to this, she received two BAs from Sookmyung Women’s University: in Korean Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature.

For her current research, Youkyung works on typological universals of relative clauses, focusing on Korean as a foreign language. She intends to use the Anglo-Korean Society Bursary for carrying out computer-assisted experiments in Korea and in the UK.

 

James Pearson

James Pearson: James completed his BA in Chinese and Korean at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and in 2011/2012 will be doing the East Asian Studies MPhil at the University of Cambridge. His research interests surround North Korean society and Sino-DPRK relations, with particular interest in what change and reform in China means for the DPRK in the 21st Century. Following work with the Canadian-based academic NGO 'East-West Coalition' that organises academic exchanges to the DPRK, James intends to use his bursary on a return trip to Pyongyang in 2012 for broader immersion and field research in North Korea itself. In the long term, James is pursuing a career in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a diplomat.
 

Reports from recipients for Academic year 2010-2011

Ruth Mueller

Report from Ruth Mueller:

As a 2010 recipient of the Anglo-Korean Post-Graduate Bursary, I was able to undertake my PhD research in Korean traditional music and issues of gender. My PhD research in ethnomusicology at the University of Sheffield required a period of field research, which was undertaken in the spring of 2010. The bursary paid for the flight to and from Seoul, Republic of Korea from the UK. My research included attendance at performances and rehearsals of traditional music in a large variety of genres in addition to performing extensive interviews with performers and researchers of traditional music and access to books and music within library archives. The trip would not have been possible without this bursary, which paid for over half of all of the expenditures for the research period. Overall, the Anglo-Korean Society Bursary allowed for a great deal of field research to be conducted towards the overall completion of my PhD thesis. The work, observations, interviews and readings performed through my fieldwork in 2010 are the basis of my original work on music and gender for my thesis and has greatly helped me to explore and support my previously held observations and theories.

 

Jung-Taek Lee

Jung-Taek Lee is a PhD candidate researching on ‘dress and fashion in Korea 1876-1945’ in the department of the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London.

Since his BA in Clothing and Textiles in Korea and MA in Material and Visual Culture at UCL, Jung-Taek’s ongoing interest on dress and fashion as a cultural phenomenon and as meaningful objects, images and texts has led him to explore the sartorial transition from hanbok (Korean dress) to yangbok (Western dress) in the context of Korean colonial modernity.

The Anglo-Korean Society Bursary facilitated his fieldwork study in Korea, conducting an object-based examination of modern hanbok collection at Sungkyunkwan University and participating in costume related seminars and conferences in Seoul.

Read Jung-Taek Lee's full report.

Bursary recipients from previous years

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