Academy of Korean Studies announces projects to promote Koreanology for year 2021 

NEW DELHI: In its continuous endeavor to promote Koreanology studies and education across the globe through various programs, the Korean Studies Promotion Service (KSPS) – a division of the Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul has announced to fund various projects in the year 2021.

For this, the KSPS will start accepting applications from individual researchers, research teams, and institutes including universities from across the world including India in early next year, probably from January.

The KSPS Global Programs Platform is designed to fund projects that contribute to establishing basic infrastructure and environment for Koreanology research and education around the world, training foreign Koreanology experts, spreading academic resources needed in Koreanology research and education, and exchanges of academic accomplishments and expertise between Korea and the world.

“The successfully short-listed projects will be funded annually for a designated period of time. Acceptance of applications will commence early next year, after an official announcement. The announcement related to the successful selectees would be made in and around March, ” Shyam Kumar Anand, Research Scholar at the Academy of Korean Studies helping KSPS department to promote these projects in India and South Asia, told Asian Community News (ACN) Network, India.

The well-known Indian educational institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Nalanda University have bagged many such projects from KSPS.

According to KSPS, there are programs designed to support building infrastructure, programs funding inter-curricular group studies, and programs to support Translations of pre-modern/modern Korean classics or publication of encyclopedic sources on Koreanology in English.

There is also a program to fund the development of online and offline educational content such as cyber classes and reference manuals. The goal of all these programs is simple: Enhance Koreanology research and education abroad, with new content based on not only Korean expertise but the needs and interests of global Koreanology students.

To help Korean Studies become a global academic discipline, researched beyond its borders, AKS in May 2007 had set up KSPS – a division in charge of steering efforts to promote this field, with the support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

In order to build a strong program, KSPS has been summoning opinions and suggestions from many Korean experts and is planning to request advice from our foreign partners as well. And as an extension of such effort, KSPS would also like to ask foreign students, who either came to Korea and experienced Korean culture and academism firsthand or plan to do so in the future, for any kind of suggestions, opinions, and recommendations.

Those interested in forwarding their suggestions and feedback can do so online by clicking on this link https://ksps-pms.aks.ac.kr/jsp/surveyPlan/2020_survey.jsp .