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.
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