Korea Faculty

WONMO DONG
Affiliate Professor

Areas of Interest: South Korean politics, Inter-Korea relations, US-Korea relations, politics of colonial Korea (1905-1945)

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YANGWON HA
Affiliated Researcher

YONG-CHOOL HA
Korea Foundation Professor of Korea Social Science, Jackson School of International Studies

Areas of Interest: Asian Politics (with emphasis on Korea and Japan), Comparative Politics, Soviet and Russian Politics

YONG SUNG JONATHAN KANG
Assistant Professor, School of Law

Areas of Interest: Contract law and theory, international business transactions, Korean law, comparative law, and moral and legal philosophy

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SOOHEE KIM
Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Korean language and linguistics

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JEONGYI LEE
Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Korean language

HWASOOK NAM
Assistant Professor of Korean History and incumbant of James B. Palais Endowed Professorship, Jackson School of International Studies and Department of History

Areas of Interest: South Korean Development and workers rights in the Park Chung Hee regime (1961-79) focusing on status issues and gender dynamics

CLARK W. SORENSEN
Associate Professor, Chair, Korea Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies

Areas of Interest: Modern Korean society; social change in modern East Asia; national identity formation

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Library Staff
HYOKYOUNG YI
Korean Studies Librarian

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HEIJA RYOO
Korean Cataloger

Staff

ANNETTE BERNIER
Asian Studies Program Coordinator, Korea Studies Program

YOUNG SOOK LIM
Assistant Director, Center for Korea Studies

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TRACY STOBER
Managing Editor, Journal of Korean Studies


History of the Korea Studies Program at the University of Washington

Center for Korea Studies
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
206.543.4873
uwcks@u.washington.edu