Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Korea Foundation presented Harvard Wednesday with the first installment of a $3.5 million grant to fund the study of Korean literature...
...donation represents the largest sum of money ever given to any foreign university by the South Korean government...
...Korea Foundation will contribute to the Korea Institute's administrative and operational expenses, will endow a chair in Korean literature, will fund two postdoctoral fellowships beginning in 1994-5 and will donate $50,000 annually to support graduate students working in Korean studies...
...This is a wonderful day for Korean studies-not only at Harvard, but in America generally," Rudenstine said in the release. "Other institutions will see what has been accomplished here, and we hope they will follow. The gift augurs well for the future study of Korean culture and civilization...
Cohen meets some interesting people on his "cross-country quest for a generation." He brings the reader along as he visits with Dirk, a New York artist and dope dealer; Dexter, a Louisiana politician who is in it for the money; and David, a Korean-American who works in his parents grocery store in South Central Los Angeles. It's wonderful simply to have vicarious conversations with these people, to hear about their lives and dreams and work and loves and fears...