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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.
seas - squid game article by Sarah Son

Squid Game: the real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show

Squid Game provides a sharp critique of the socio-economic inequality that plagues the lives of many in South Korea. More specifically, it speaks to the deepening household debt crisis affecting the lower and middle classes.

| Published by The Conversation
Early protestant communities in Korea

AHRC Research Fellowship to explore early protestant communities in Korea.

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Hyun Kyong Chang on receiving an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship to work on a project entitled "Pacific Voicings: Korean Hymns and Prayers in the Age of Empires, 1884-1945".

digital Asia online exhibition

Providing enhanced employability skills through the Digital Asia Exhibition

A review of the Digital Asia Exhibition project, which was written by the students who took part, Andrei I Stan, Annabel Langdon, Luke Wakemen, Faye Larkins, undergraduate students here in the School of East Asian Studies.
digital Asia project work

Digital Asia 2021

Through partnerships with South Yorkshire’s thriving digital sector, staff and students in SEAS are developing new initiatives to support employability and digital development. The Digital Asia Exhibition is just one example of this work.

virtual korean poetry exhibition

Explore our virtual poetry exhibition

As part of their Korean language coursework, this year’s level 2 Korean Studies students were asked to write a poem with a translation, including artwork if they wished.