KF to dispatch professors overseas in support of Korean studies

Korea Foundation is recruiting visiting professors or academics in the field of Korean language, history, economics and other culture-related studies to dispatch overseas to a handful of foreign universities with budding Korean Studies programs.

The foundation is looking to recruit 11 professors to send to 11 different universities across the globe that are showing increasing numbers of students majoring in Korean Studies, including the University of Mississippi in the United States, Bogazici University in Turkey, and the University of Delhi in India.

The visiting professor program is being developed in the hope of fostering long-term support for international Korean studies students in order to contribute to the further growth and development of Korean culture, history and language education abroad.

Interested candidates can register online at the Korea Foundation website at www.kf.or.kr.

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)