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…
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…
We are pleased to officially invite you to a special end-of-semester workshop in cooperation with the Korean War Memorial Organization (KWO). Come expand your horizons and learn more about the activities of this important institution and the valuable materials available in its archives. The event will begin with an introduction to KWO, followed by short presentations…
We were honored to attend and present at the 31st Annual Conference Patterns in History?, organized by the European Association of History Educators (EuroClio). The conference brought together educators, researchers, and institutions from across Europe to reflect on historical narratives and their relevance in today’s classrooms. Our team was invited to present the Korean and Eastern Bloc…
We are pleased to announce that a new course is available at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague as part of the project “Korea and the Eastern Bloc: Past, Present, and Future Development.” The course explores the theme of the Korean War in Cold War cinema from the 1950s onward. It examines…
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with the University Palacký in Olomouc to organise the 6th Conference of the Young Koreanists. The conference took place on the 14th of February at the University Palacký in Olomouc. A total of 10 candidates from master’s or doctoral programs presented their papers at the conference,…
Since this project started, over the past year, our team of Research Assistants has been deeply engaged in two parallel strands of work: preserving the past through digitisation and uncovering hidden histories through field research. One of the main achievements was the successful digitisation of a unique set of handwritten notes by the late J. Bařinka,…
