We are pleased to announce a new course that 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 lecture deals with the topic of the Korean War in Cold War films since the 1950s and the…
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 was sponsored by the Korean and the Eastern Bloc Institute. The conference took place on the 14th of February at the University Palacký in Olomouc. A total of 10…
We are pleased to announce our participation at the “North Korean War Orphans in Eastern Europe in the 1950s“ conference at the University of Tübingen on the 8th and 9th of November 2024. We have discussed the topic of North Korean orphans in Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The situation was diverse throughout…
We would like to announce that on the 6th of December an online regional meeting of the whole research team was held. This research team helped us deepen our cooperation and reflect on all of the project’s accomplishments during the the first year of the project. We have also planned new tasks for year 2025…
We are pleased to announce the new course being taught at Charles University in Prague as part of the project “Korea and the Eastern Bloc: Past, Present, and Future Development.”The guarantor is Lukáš Kubík, our project manager, but the course will have a multitude of interesting lecturers not only across Charles University but also across…
Korea and the Eastern Bloc: Past, Present and Future Development Project is an international research institute specialising in the comprehensive study of Korea and its relations with former Eastern Bloc nations from the Cold War until today. The institute endeavours to bridge knowledge gaps by analysing the influence of the Cold War on the Korean peninsula and the…
