BAKS: promoting the study and understanding of Korea in the United Kingdom
welcome
The British Association for Korean Studies (BAKS) exists to promote the study and understanding of Korea in the United Kingdom. It issues an online Newsletter, organises conferences and workshops, publishes those proceedings in a series entitled BAKS Papers, and assists in providing information about Korea to members and non-members. It maintains an electronic discussion list. Membership is open to all those concerned with Korea in education, business, and the public services, as well as members of the general public.
BAKS is a sister organisation of the British Association for
Chinese Studies (BACS) and the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS),
and collaborates with them in periodic joint conferences.
POST-GRADUATE
BURSARY
Anglo-Korean Society Post-Graduate
Bursary
2010
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of
the British Association for Korean Studies is offering a single GBP 500 bursary
on a competitive basis to post-graduate students.
The Anglo-Korean
Society was founded in 1956 to foster friendship between the United Kingdom and
the Republic of Korea. By providing opportunities for contacts between British
nationals and Koreans residing in or visiting Britain, the Society seeks to
bring together everyone in the UK who has an interest in Korean matters, and to
act as a forum for social and cultural exchange in an environment of friendship
and understanding.
For more details, click this download.
UNDERGRADUATE BURSARIES AND INTERNSHIPS
The British
Korean Veterans' Association is offering bursaries to undergraduate students on
Korean programmes of full-time academic study in which the study of the Korean
language is an integral part of the programme, and which requires the student to
spend a full academic session or part-session in Korea receiving intensive
language tuition for the period of the stay in Korea. You must apply through the
British Association for Korean Studies, using our application
form.
The British Association for Korean Studies also announces a scheme
for the placement of students as interns with British or Korean companies in
Korea. The scheme is open to any student in a British university regardless of
nationality who is registered for a named undergraduate Korean Studies degree
programme that requres the student to spend a mandatory academic session in
Korea receiving intensive language tuition. The internship would be taken up in
conjunction with the year abroad and would run for two months between June and
September 2010 for the current academic year. Those interested should
complete an application.
ANGLO-KOREAN SOCIETY WEBSITE LAUNCH
The Anglo-Korean Society has
launched its new website. Please take a look.
