University of Missouri launches Institute for Korean Studies
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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 (http://bit.ly/2kPDGLB ) 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.
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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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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, http://www.columbiatribune.com