Korea IT Times
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Red Alert: Korean Language Instruction in the United States
When I started studying Korean language at Harvard University, there were about 30 students in the class the first day. Twenty-two of them were Korean Americans and eight were non-Koreans. Within two weeks I was the only non-Korean in the room. The instructors of the class were Korean graduate students with no real training in how to teach Korean to non-natives. When the Korean Americans in the class were able to make simple
Literature and Language
KBS Good Morning Pops Interview with Emanuel (article in Korean)
Here is a fun interview from KBS Good Morning Pops aimed at Korean youth studying English.
Asia Institute Seminar: Interview with Professor Haun Saussy of University of Chicago
The Asia Institute Seminar
December 29, 2011
Interview with Haun Saussy
University Professor of Comparative Literature
University of Chicago
Professor Haun Saussy is a leading scholar of Chinese and comparative literature, has been named University Professor of Comparative Literature in the Division of the Humanities and the College at the University of Chicago. One of the few figures with a deep understanding of both the Western classical and Eastern tradition, who has advanced arguments for a new global approach to comparative literature. Professor Saussy is the 17th person ever to hold the title of University Professor at University of Chicago, an honor given to distinguished scholars.
Saussy’s first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford University Press, 1993), discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection Shijing. His most recent book is Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001), an account of the ways of knowing and describing specific to China scholarship.
Suggestions for Korean Language Instruction in US (article in Korean)
In this article in Kukmin Ilbo Newspaper (January 2, 2012) I describe the shortcomings of Korean language education in the United States and make a few concrete suggestions. An English language version of this article is forthcoming.
국민일보
2012년 01월 02일
“적색경보, 미국 내 한국어교육”
“좋은 한국어 교재 만드는 건 작은 투자지만 미래의 한국 전문가 만드는 첩경이다”
하버드대학에서 한국어 수업을 들을 때 이야기다. 첫날 30명이 왔다. 이 중 22명이 한국계 미국인이고 한국계가 아닌 학생은 8명이었다. 그런데 2주일도 지나지 않아 한국계 아닌 수강생은 나 혼자만 남게 됐다. 강사들은 대부분 한국계 대학원생들이었다.
Broadcast about Emanuel’s Teaching on EBS (article in Korean)
A short introduction to the broadcast today:
EBS <초대석>
한국문화를 위한 미국 선비의 고언(苦言)
-25년 넘게 한중일 고전문학을 연구하고, 연암 박지원 선생의 고전소석을 영어로 번역한,
파란 눈의 동양학자 이만열 교수 (경희대 후마니타스칼리지)!
미국 출신 인문학자가 본 한국 전통문화의 저력, 그리고 현주소는?
Professor Kang-i Sun Chang (essay)
Professor Kang-i Sun Chang
There was one other Chinese at Yale who had immense impact on me and led me to strive for excellence in the field of Chinese, Professor Kang-i Sun Chang (孙康宜教授). An extremely enthusiastic teacher and scholar trained in Taiwan, she had an all encompassing view of the potential of Chinese literature to be meaningful to everyone. She was also the one who encouraged me to learn Japanese and to study in Japan for my graduate work. Her father had studied in Japan in a previous era and she felt that I should take an equally broad perspective. An extremely well-read scholar, who wished to talk with anyone willing to engage her in a serious conversation, Professor Zhang constantly shared with me poems and stories when we sat at the desk in her office.
Korea Society of East Asian Comparative Literature awards prize to Emanuel (Korean)
December 15, 2011
I had the great honor of receiving the Seokheon Scholarly Prize offered by the Korea Society of East Asian Comparative Literature. The prize was awarded in recognition of my recent study of Chinese novels in Japan: The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan (Seoul National University Press, 2011). The Seokheon Scholarly Prize is awarded for the best study of comparative Asian literature published in Korea. The prize was established four years ago in honor of Professor Jung Kyubok (정규복 교수) of Korea University’s Department of Korean Literature. When I studied in Korea back in 1995, I attended many seminars held by the Korea Society of East Asian Comparative
Christian Thought (기독교사상) on Emanuel’s work (article in Korean)
This article in the November, 2011 issue of “Christian Thought” (기독교사상) includes a rather lengthy interview in Korean.
Portraits: Marston Anderson (essay)
Marston Anderson
When I returned from my year in Taiwan, there was a new professor of Chinese literature at Yale whom I had never met. He was a tall man with very short blond hair and a shy personality. The new professor did not talk much unless you engaged in a subject, but then he spoke with an enthusiasm and alertness that was inspiring. His name was Marston Anderson and he had just received a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Chinese literature. I heard later that he had been considered one of the most promising young scholars of Chinese studies. Professor
Opening address at event dedicated to the poet Son Hoyeon (November 24, 2011)
Emanuel was invited to deliver the opening remarks and also to read the poems of the Korean poet Son Hoyeon 손호연 at a special commemorative event (eighth anniversary of her death) held at the home of Son Hoyeon in Seoul. Emanuel delivered these short remarks (in Korean below) and read several of the poems in English.