(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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