The Korea Institute strongly supports exciting new research from the next generation of young scholars entering the field of Korean Studies. Among our alumni are Ms Younghye Seo Whitney, who completed an MPhil on transnational intellectual advocacy networks and their influence on the South Korea’s pro-democracy movement; Mr Orion Lethbridge, whose MPhil project entailed a translation of The Record of the Citadel of Sorrows, Ms Athalia Irwansjah, who wrote a Master’s thesis on English education policy in South Korea, and Dr Narah Lee (now UQ), who wrote a PhD thesis on the pragmatic effects of the overt expression of first and second person subjects in modern spoken Korean.

Meet our current graduate students working in Korean Studies and related fields below.