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The latest news about research, events, staff and students from the School of East Asian Studies.
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K-pop Worlds: Exploring the Global Influence of a Korean Phenomenon Launch Event

K-pop came to Sheffield on Thursday 3rd October when the University Library and the Centre for Korean Studies held a launch event for an exhibition titled K-pop Worlds: Exploring the Global Influence of a Korean Phenomenon.
Student doing Japanese writing
Student doing Japanese writing

Experience Japanese at University and Beyond Programme 2025

Whether you're a complete beginner or already studying Japanese, join us for a great day of workshops, language tasters, and a panel discussion to discover future opportunities of undertaking East Asian studies at university.
KPOP Team
The Exhibition team members, from left to right: Dr Gemma Ballard, Mia Xinrui Liu, Dr Hannah Hyun Kyong Chang and Youn-hi Hughes.

K-pop Worlds: Exploring the Influence of a Global Phenomenon

We are delighted to announce the launch of a special exhibition dedicated to the ever-growing phenomenon of K-pop, which will run from September 11th to October 17th, 2024.
Digital Conference

Digital Korea: Stories, systems and spaces of connection

On May 30-31 the Centre for Korean Studies welcomed over twenty Korean Studies scholars from Europe, the United States, East and South East Asia to share their research.
Film Festival

Korean Documentary Film Festival 

The Centre for Korean Studies partnered with the historic Showroom Cinema in Sheffield in April to screen a special Korean documentary season featuring films on themes ranging from football and the Korean War, to cats and K-pop fandom.
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The School of East Asian Studies scores highly in the latest National Student Survey (NSS)

The annual survey shows that the School has ranked 1st in the Russell Group for overall student satisfaction.
A woman putting a face mask on to a child.

Coronavirus in Japan: why is the infection rate relatively low?

Whilst Covid-19 rapidly spreads across the world, Japan’s infection rate seems relatively low. Dr Hiro Waranabe discusses why that might be in The Conversation.

| The Conversation
Japan (Mount Fuji)

Doomed fate of 'undesirable Korean' in Japan

A fantastic new article by Dr Deokhyo Choi about a World War II Prisoner of War's tragic transnational migration. A fascinating read for anyone interested in history, migration and anthropology.

| The Korea Times
The poster for the Japan Now series of events

Japan Now North 2020

Japan Now North is a week of activities celebrating the art, culture, literature and film of Japan. Now in our third year, we are holding events across Sheffield, home of one of Europe's leading academic centres on Japan.
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Employability in the spotlight

We’ve had a full semester of events over the last few months, including careers presentations from a number of East Asia-focussed companies and organisations with long experience finding roles for East Asian studies graduates.