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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.
Elon Musk

Low birth rates could lead to a population collapse

Dr Peter Matanle comments in Business Insider on whether low birth rates could lead to a population collapse, after Elon Musk said that population collapse is a bigger risk than global warming.

| Business Insider
Books

Translating Japanese Women’s Writing: a Conversation on Kono Taeko with translator Lucy North and Professor Julia Bullock

This event will feature a three-way conversation between literary translator Lucy North, Julia Bullock, Professor of Japanese literature and Nozomi Uematsu, lecturer in Japanese Studies in the School of East Asian Studies.
BTS White House

Why have BTS taken a break?

BTS take a break: world’s biggest K-pop group is caught between Korea’s soft power ambitions and national security. Find out what our very own Dr Sarah Son has to say about it over on the Conversation UK.

| The Conversation UK
Japan

Exploring Premodern Japan

Dr Thomas McAuley's interview for Exploring Premodern Japan is now live. Dr McAuley chats about the Poetry Contest in 600 Rounds and poetry contests in general, the interview also includes a trained waka poetry reciter chant!

| Youtube
Mike Prentice Book

Supercorporate, Mike Prentice's Book Release

Our very own Dr Mike Prentice from the School of East Asian Studies is publishing a book that will come out with Stanford University Press in June.