Middle school students compete in the final round of the first annual U-M Korea Quiz Bowl
The 2012 Nam Essay Award recipients with Mrs. Moon-Sook Nam
The 2012 Korean Language Scholarship recipients
Hallyu 2.0 professor and graduate student presenters from around the world
Professor Youngju Ryu discusses new media and electoral politics in Korea at the Hallyu 2.0 conference
Hallyu 2.0 at the Rackham Amphitheatre
Roald Maliangkay lectures on the packaging of Korean girl and boy bands
A fifth grade visit to Woon-Hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art at UMMA
Students examine Korean ceramics led by UMMA docents
Ceramics Artist Eunhee Lee leads a demonstration on sanggam in Goryeo celadon with 5th grade students
Teachers at the East Asia Immersion Workshop practice Tal'chum
Chung-in Moon Lecture
The Audience at the Inaugural Elder Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture
U-M Students with Chung Kil Chung
Chuseok Day
UMMA Grand Opening, March 2009
UMMA Korea Art Gallery
The late Elder Nam with Tim Utter at the Bequest Luncheon
Chung Kil Chung, President of the Academy of Korean Studies visited the U-M campus
Dean Terrence McDonald and President Chung Kil Chung from the Academy of Korean Studies shake hands after signing the grant agreement.
Bruce Cumings's talk: Apocalypse, Amnesia--and Kim Jong Il: Why the Korean War is Forgotten?
Daniel Herbert gives a lecture on non-linear time structures in contemporary Korean cinema.

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The Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan International Institute encourages economic, political, and cultural 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.

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Call for Papers
Transgression as a Secular Value Conference 

Deadline for abstract submissions:
June 4, 2012
The organizers of the conference welcome papers that critically examine transgression in either modern or pre-modern Korea and also papers that discuss transgression in a broader Asian or global context.
Please see the call for papers for submission guidelines.

The Arson of History

Kristen Zelenka, a U-M student majoring in Art and Design, co-directed this documentary on the burning of the South Gate in Seoul as part of a student project for Harvard's 2011 Summer Abroad Program in Korea. (more)