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...honor the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Korean studies pioneer Edward W. Wagner ’49 at Harvard, Korean history professor Sun Joo Kim delivered a lecture yesterday about his lasting impact on Korean studies...
...commemoration occurs at a “very exciting time” of continued growth in the previously unrecognized and undeveloped field of Korean studies, said Kim, who added that the field has only seen real growth in the last 15 years...
...Fifty years later, it’s really significant for all of us in Korean studies to remember in essence where we came from, how Korean studies was established, and how far we’ve come in that time,” said Susan L. Laurence, assistant director of the Korea Institute, which Wagner founded...
Wagner oversaw numerous Ph.D.s in Korean history during his 35-year professorship at Harvard, at the time the only American university that produced doctoral degrees for Korean studies, according...
Some of these newly minted scholars would go on to establish Korean studies programs in their respective universities. In fact, Kim trained under one of his former students...