Welcome to the UCLA Center for Korean Studies!

The UCLA Center for Korean Studies was established in 1993 to coordinate development of UCLA's burgeoning programs in this field of research. Center presides over the biggest Korean Studies program on the mainland of the United States, with the most specialists dedicated to Korea on its faculty and the largest number of students studying Korean subjects, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Director

Namhee Lee
Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Staff

Hyung-Wook Kim
Assistant Director, Ph.D.

Peyton Park
Program Representative

Daniel Ko
Program Assistant

Annika Brucia
Program Assistant

Core Faculty

Robert Buswell, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Cultures
Sanghun Cho, Associate Librarian, Korean Collection
Jennifer J. Chun, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and International Institute
John Duncan, Professor (ret.), Asian Languages & Cultures
Ju Hui Judy Han, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Christopher P. Hanscom, Associate Professor of Korean Literature
Burglind Jungmann, Professor (ret.), Art History
Gina Kim, Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television
Suk-Young Kim, Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television
Namhee Lee, Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures
Peter Lee, Professor Emeritus (ret.) of Korean & Comparative Literature
Katherine In-Young Lee, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Sung-Deuk Oak, Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Endowed Chair
Associate Professor of Korean Christianity
Kyeyoung Park, Professor, Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean-American Studies
Hyun Suk Park, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Sung-Ock Sohn, Professor of Korean Language
Sixiang Wang, Assistant Professor, Asia Languages and Cultures

Affiliated Faculty

Andrea Goldman, Associate Professor, History and Interim Director, Asia Pacific Center
Sun-Ah Jun, Professor, Vice Chair - Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor, Art History & Archaeology
R. Bin Wong, Professor of History

Lecturers