Visiting Graduate Students 2008-2009
UCLA provides housing, airfare, living expenses, and class fees for students in Latin America to take course on Korean humanities that are not offered in their countries.
Published: Monday, March 08, 2010
Maria Agostina Cacault, Argentina
- Researcher at Center of Korean Studies, University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina
- Master degree in International Relations with orientations in Asia-Pacific at Institute of International Relations (IRI)-University of La Plata (UNLP)
- Undergraduate in Political Science and International Relations.
- Interests: the late period of Choson Dinasty, especifically Tonghak movement and the Kabo Reform; the economy process of integration.
Andres Weskamp, Argentina
- Member of the Asian Studies Center at the National University of Rosario, Argentina
- Bachelor degree in International Relations, National University of Rosario, Argentina
- Master degree in International Studies, University of Chile, Chile
- Interests: Foreign trade between South Korea and Latin America, especially Argentina and Chile; History of the Korean peninsula, especially the 20th and 21st Centuries
Priscila Helena Lee, Brazil
- Graduate Student at University of Sao Paulo
- Research Interest: South Korean enterprises development into a worldwide companies, within the processes of unequal geographical development and geographical transfer of value
Uilian Dias Santos, Brazil
- Bachelor in Japanese and Portuguese Literature
- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil - School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences
- Research interests: historical aspects and changes in the Korean Language toward developing new methods of teaching Korean as a foreign language
Natalia Droguett, Chile
- English Lit & Linguistics Major, Asian Studies Minor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Interests: Korean Language, Literature and Linguistics; Public Education in Korea, and its correlation to improving Education in Chile
Sebastian Mujica, Chile
- Center of Asian Pacific Studies University of Chile
- Korean Government Scolarship Program at 전남대학교 (Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea)
- Interest in Korean Studies: Relationship between North and South Korea (main focus in Sunshine Policy); Democratization
Gerardo Daniel Ramirez Cruz, Mexico
- Undergraduate student at Universidad Autonoma de Nayarit
- Interests: Comparative Economic Integration North America and East Asia
- Víctor Manuel Olea Contreras, Mexico
- Student of International Studies or Relations at Universidad de Guadalajara
- Thesis Project: The Taiwanese Nationalism and its Impact on US-China Relations, 1996 - 2007
