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Handmaiden talk
Fri, 23 Oct 2026

Special Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of the film “The Handmaiden”

Special Symposium on the Tenth Anniversary of the film “The Handmaiden”
Jinsung talk
Fri, 21 Aug 2026

Punishment in Uniform: Military Exile (ch’unggun 充軍) and the Persistence of Conventional Penal Practices in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1863–1894

Jinsung Kim, University of British Columbia

 
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Sunyoung park talk pic
Thu, 6 Aug 2026

Adventure, Pedagogy, and National Modernization Science Fiction for Young Adults in South Korea, 1960-2020

A/Prof. Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California
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ChiBeom Park
Thu, 23 Jul 2026

"공감은 동의가 아니다": 21세기에 한국어 '공감'에 대해 다시 생각하기 Sympathy Is Not Agreement: Rethinking Sympathy in the Korean Language for the Twenty-First Century

This talk will ONLY be delivered in Korean. 
Korean Literature Book Club: Caregiving Stories with Kim Yudam and Sunnie Chae
Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Korean Literature Book Club: Caregiving Stories with Kim Yudam and Sunnie Chae

Join us for our second Korean Literature Book Club of 2026.

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Yudam Talk
Fri, 27 Mar 2026

Women's Lives in Korean Literature

Join us for a literary conversation with acclaimed author Kim Yudam.
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The 1000 Anton Hurs Problem: The Failure of AI in Literary Translation
Thu, 5 Mar 2026

The 1000 Anton Hurs Problem: The Failure of AI in Literary Translation

Award-winning translator and former app-developer Anton Hur discusses the problem of AI in literary translation.
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Korean Literature Book Club: In conversation with Anton Hur
Fri, 27 Feb 2026

Korean Literature Book Club: In conversation with Anton Hur

Join us for a conversation with one of the most prolific and well-known literary translators of our time.
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