Newly Funded Chair Will Specialize in Korean Religions

Il Hwan and Soon Ja Cho, owners of a New Jersey-based sportswear
company, have donated $1.5 million in support of the Il Hwan and Soon
Ja Cho Professorship of Korean Religions. The newly created chair will
be held by an EALAC professor whose scholarship and teaching focuses
on Korean religions, with special emphasis on Korean Buddhism. The
chair will complement three existing chairs in Korean history and
literature, as well as several professorships in Buddhist studies and
other Asian religions. It will be endowed at the level of $3 million
thanks to a matching donation under the Lenfest Challenge established
in 2006 by University Trustee Gerry Lenfest LAW'57.

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Joel S. Wit, Has Article Published

Joel S. Wit, adjuct senior research fellow at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, has published an article, "Dealing With North Korea: "Diplomatic Warfare" Ahead" in Volume 39, Number 1, of Arms Control Today (2009). He is also a former official at the Department of State and co-author of Going Critical: The First North Korea Nuclear Crisis (2004).

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Charles Armstrong, Director of the Center for Korean Research, on PBS' Worldfocus

Charles Armstrong, Director of the Center for Korean Research and Associate Professor of Korean Studies, was featured on PBS' Worldfocus to discuss Hillary Clinton's first trip to South Korea as U.S. Secretary of State.