University of Missouri launches Institute for Korean Studies

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     (AP) – The University of Missouri is launching a new Institute

for Korean Studies.

     Co-directors will be assistant history professor C. Harrison Kim and assistant

political science professor Sheena Greitens, who is Gov. Eric Greitens’ wife.

     The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the institute will foster research on

South and North Korea. Kim says the university has a long history of academic

research on Korea but faculty members hadn’t come together to establish an

institute.

     Sheena Greitens says one of the institute’s goals will be to raise the

university’s profile in Korean research. She has a personal interest because one

of her adopted sisters is from Korea.

The institute will launch Thursday with a speech by Grace Jo, a North Korean

refugee who became a U.S. citizen and advocate for human rights.




   

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