📅 19 May 2026 (Tuesday) 📍 Faculty of Arts, Charles University – Spork Palace (H303), Prague 1 We are pleased to share the program of the upcoming K-PEC International Conference, co-organized by the Korea and the Eastern Bloc Institute (KoEBI), Gyeonggi-Do, and the Korean Society of Contemporary European Studies (KSCES), on the theme An Age […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture by our colleague Kateřina Vondráčková on the history of North Korean war orphans who were housed at Valeč Chateau in the 1950s. The lecture will present this little-known chapter of Czech–Korean relations after the Korean War and introduce the stories of the children who found a temporary home […]
Conference Announcement: Korea and the Eastern Bloc The international conference “Korea and the Eastern Bloc: The Onset of the Cold War and the Involvement of Eastern Bloc Countries in the 1950s and 1960s” will begin tomorrow, 30 January 2026, at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The conference will be live-streamed online. Those unable to attend […]
The upcoming conference: Korea and the Eastern Bloc: The Onset of the Cold War and the Involvement of Eastern Bloc Countries in the 1950s and 1960s will take Place & Date in Prague, Czechia; 30–31 January 2026 Venue: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha ½, 116 38 Prague 1; Room P104 (1st floor) […]
Korea and the Eastern Bloc Institute (KoEBI) in collaboration with the Prague Centre for Korean Studies, warmly invites you to a unique online lecture by Dr. Marek Hańderek from Jagiellonian University on The Role of the NNSC between 1953 and 1956. The lecture will take place online via MS Teams. We warmly welcome everyone who […]
The Department of Korean Studies at Charles University and the Korea and the Eastern Bloc Institute are opening a new semester-long course North Korea in the 21st Century in the Winter Semester 2025/2026. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the fundamental issues related to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). […]
Call for Papers International Conference organized by the Korea and the Eastern Bloc Institute of the Charles University in Prague: Korea and the Eastern Bloc: The Onset of the Cold War and the Involvement of Eastern Bloc Countries in the 1950s and 1960s Prague, Czechia; 30–31 January 2026Conference language: English The early Cold War constituted […]
On Friday, 5 September, 2025, a joint doctoral colloquium will be held at the Korean Studies Department of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, with students and professors from Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Hamburg. The event will take place at 10:00 at Celetná 20, classroom C247. The event will take place at 10:00 in Centrum Carolina, Celetná 20, classroom C247.
From July 17–19, 2025, the International Conference of the Central & Eastern European Society of Koreanology (CEESOK) in collaboration with the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) brought together scholars from across the globe in Budapest for “Expanding Frontiers in Korean Studies Research Materials: Scholarly Utilization of Archival Collections.” The conference focused on new approaches to archival research and the […]
On May 16, 2025, a collaborative workshop took place between the Korea and the Eastern Bloc Institute of the Charles University and theKWO Korean War-memorial Organization (KWO). The meeting provided a valuable opportunity to introduce the mission and ongoing activities of the KWO. During the event, professor Miriam Löwensteinová, Lukáš Kubík, and Karolína Šamánková presented […]
