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.
New Constitution approved and Council
elected
During an AGM held concurrently with the very
successful symposium ('Recalling Korea Past: An Oral History of the 1950s to the
1980s') convened at the Korean Cultural Centre, London, on 26 November, a new
Constitution was approved and a new Council was elected.
Anglo-Korean Society Post-Graduate Bursary
2012
The Anglo-Korean Society through the Bursary Committee of the British Association for Korean Studies is offering two GBP 1000 bursaries 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.
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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 of the current academic year. Those interested should complete an application.
