Charles K. Armstrong (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. A specialist in the modern history of Korea and East Asia, Professor Armstrong has published several books on contemporary Korea, including The Koreas (Routledge, 2007), The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell, 2003), Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), and Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, second edition 2006), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His current book projects include a study of North Korean foreign relations in the Cold War era and a history of modern East Asia. Professor Armstrong is a frequent commentator in the US and international media on Korean, East Asian, and Asian-American affairs. Email: cra10@columbia.edu

JaHyun Kim Haboush (Ph.D., Columbia University) is King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of East Asian languages. Her research interests include cultural history of pre-modern and early modern Korea; political culture; pre-modern nationalism; diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender and sexuality, and historiography from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries; and Korean literature. Professor Haboush's courses include Korean history to 1900, culture and society of Chosôn Korea, Korean historical sources, gender and narratives in Korea, Korean prose literature, gender and writing in Korea and China, and the Imjin War 1592-1598: The Emergence of a New East Asia. Her publications include "A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World " (Columbia, 1988), "The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity" (Columbia, 2001), and "The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea" (University of California, 1996) for which she won the Korean Arts and Culture Foundation's Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism in 1997. She also co-edited "The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea" (Columbia, 1985), "Culture and the State in Late Choson Korea" (Harvard, 1999), "Women in Pre-Modern Confucian Cultures in China, Korea, and Japan" (University of California, 2003), and "Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson 1392-1910" (Columbia, 2009). Professor Haboush, a native of Seoul, Korea, did her graduate studies at the University of Michigan (MA 1970 in Chinese literature) and at Columbia University (Ph.D 1978 in Korean and Chinese History). Email: jkh25@columbia.edu

Theodore Hughes,Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, received his Ph.D. in modern Korean literature from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. His current research interests include coloniality; proletarian literature and art; cultures of national division; visuality and the global Cold War. Recent publications include “Return to the Colonial Present: Ch’oe In-hun’s Cold War Pan-Asianism” (forthcoming in positions: east asia cultures critique); “Dongducheon: Everyday Life, Violence, and the State of Exception” (BOL, 2008); ‘“North Koreans’ and other Virtual Subjects: Kim Yŏng-ha, Hwang Suk-young, and National Division in the Age of Posthumanism” (The Review of Korean Studies, 2008); “Korean Memories of the Vietnam and Korean Wars: A Counter-History” (Japan Focus, 2007); “Korean Visual Modernity and the Developmental Imagination” (SAI, 2006); “Development as Devolution: Nam Chŏng-hyŏn and the ‘Land of Excrement’ Incident” (Journal of Korean Studies, 2005); “Producing Sovereign Spaces in the Emerging Cold War World Order: Immediate Postliberation ‘North’ and ‘South’ Korean Literature” (Han’guk Munhak Yŏn’gu, 2005); Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2005).

Laurel Kendall (Ph.D., Columbia) Laurel Kendall (Ph.D., Columbia) is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Columbia and a Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History at the American Museum of Natural History. Her publications on Korean culture and society include "Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity" (University of California Press, 1996), "The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales" (University of Hawaii Press, 1988) and "Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life" (University of Hawaii Press, 1985). She edited "Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2001) and three other volumes related to Korea and has just completed a manuscript on the Korean shaman world 30 years after her first fieldwork. Email: lk7@columbia.edu

Samuel S. Kim (Ph.D., Columbia) is Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the Center for Korean Research, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is author or editor of 23 books on Chinese and Korean foreign relations, East Asian international relations and world order studies, including most recently "Korea's Globalization" (ed., Cambridge University Press 2000); "The International Relations of Northeast Asia" (ed., Rowman& Littlefield 2004); "The Two Koreas and the Great Powers" (Cambridge University Press 2006); and "North Korean Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War World" (Strategic
Studies Institute 2007). Email: ssk12@columbia.edu

Gari Ledyard (Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1966) is King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies and Director Emeritus of the Center for Korean Research. He is the author of The Dutch Came to Korea (Royal AsiaticSociety, 1971), The Korean Language Reform of 1446 (Sin’gu Munhwasa, Seoul, 1998), “Cartography in Korea,” a book-length monograph with over sixty illustrations in The History of Cartography, Vol 2, Part 2 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994) and many other monographs, articles, and reviews related to Korean and East Asian history. He was Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1980-1983, and was the founder of the Center for Korean Research in 1992. He retired in 2000 but remains active in research and publication. Email: gkl1@columbia.edu

Beom Lee (M.A., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea) received his B.A. (1988) and M.A. (1990) in sociology from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and earned an M.A. (2002) and Ed.M. (2005) in Instructional Technology and Media, specialized in second language learning with multimedia, from Teachers Collage, Columbia University. In Korea, he taught philosophy, history, and culture of Korea and English in the Republic of Korea Army as a military officer in education and psychological warfare. He also worked for Hyundai Construction and Engineering Company as an assistant project manager, teaching job skills and computer software programs. From 2001, he instructed in multimedia software programs at Teachers College as a technology assistant, and taught non-heritage students Chinese characters and Korean as an associate at Korean Language Program, Columbia University. Beom Lee joined Columbia faculty in 2005. Email: bl355@columbia.edu

Carol Schulz (M.Ed, Boston University, M.S. Columbia), Senior Lecturer, Director of Korean Language Program, received her B.A. from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (1963), her M.Ed. from Boston University (1971), and her M.S. from Columbia University (1973). Carol H. Schulz joined Columbia faculty in 1973. Her publications include The Korean Proficiency Guidelines, co-authored with others, National Foreign Language Resources Center, (University of Hawaii, 1992); Integrated Korean, Beginning 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000); Workbook for Integrated Korean, Beginning 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000); Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001); Workbook for Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001); Listening Comprehension in Elementary Korean, co-authored with others, the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, (Yale University); Online Listening Comprehension in Korean, (Columbia University, 2003); "Are women still flowers of the workplace?" Selected Readings in Korean, (University of Hawaii Press, 2004); and "Korean Terms for Calendar and Horary Signs, Holidays and Seasons." Korean Language in Culture and Society, (University of Hawaii Press, 2006). Email: chs3@columbia.edu

EunYoung Won (M.A., Michigan State University) received her B.A. in German Education and English from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, and her M.A. (2004) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University. She taught Korean at Michigan State from 2002 to 2004 and at Harvard University from 2004 to 2006. EunYoung Won joined Columbia faculty in the fall of 2006. Email: ew2237@columbia.edu

Hyunkyu Yi (M.A., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea) received his B.A. in history from Yonsei University (1982), Seoul, Korea, and received his M.A in East Asian history from Graduate School of Yonsei University (1987). He taught Korean at Korean Language Institute in Yonsei University from 1988 to 1996. Hyunkyu Yi joined Columbia faculty in 1996. His publication includes Korean Language 1 & 2 -Easy to Learn, co-authored with others, Korean Language Center in New York, (New York, 2000 & 2003) and media instructional material includes Online Listening Comprehension in Korean, (Columbia University). Email: hy112@columbia.edu