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,…
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 Mgr. Lukáš Kubík, but the course will have a multitude of interesting lecturers not only across Charles University but also across other notable…
Karolína Šamánková, the debuty project director, visited Korea for two weeks in August 2024 for a research stay. While the research stay was beneficial for the project, a group of students of Korean studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, got a chance to visit the National Library of Korea.
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…
