CONGRATULATIONS to the amazing students from Korean Studies at UCC who participated at a 2-day joint conference with the amazing students from Università di Bologna, Italy. The conference was fully funded by an award from the Academy of Korean Studies and hosted in Bologna by Professor Marco Milani, and co-organised by Dr Kevin Cawley, UCC. 

Please find the program overview below which highlights the vast array of papers presented by the students, dealing with topics such as gender, technomorphism, feminism, religion, the Korean War, North Korea and reunification. The papers presented by the students were insightful and professional - everyone involved was extremely impressed!

On behalf of our UCC students, Dr Cawley would like to extend a huge 'Grazie' to Professor Milani for this great event, and another 'Grazie' to Dr Mary Lou Emberti Gialloreti for all her help co-ordinating things for us all in Bologna.

Joint Program UNIBO - UCC_Program of Activities.

Short Vacation (종착역 – literally means ‘terminus station’) by debut directors Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Hanseol is showing at the Irish Film Institute, as part of the EAFFI Discoveries strand.

The UCC Senior Lecturer talks about the meteoric rise of Korean culture, mastering the Korean language, some Korean dishes and singers that you should get to know and what, if anything, will change with how the world deals with North Korea.

https://www.buzz.ie/culture/buzz-qa-kevin-cawley-south-25718925

Dr Kevin Cawley's entry on "Korean Confucianism" is the first entry on Korean Philosophy published for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (University of Stanford, USA)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/korean-confucianism/

How South Korea’s social inequality inspired Netflix’s biggest hit

Additional Award for the Irish Institute of Korean Studies

6th Annual NAKPA Conference, hosted by the Irish Institute of Korean Studies in the Department of Asian Studies, will take place on October 10th and 11th 2019.