Workshops

1. Reading Village Compact Documents in the late Joseon Era (Dr. Suhwan Jung)

2. What was the international business trip of Korea like in 100 years ago? (Dr. Hyejung Lee)

1. Reading selective passage from the Confucius Analects (Dr. Won Suk Chang)

Lecturers

Dr. Suhwan Jung

Suhwan Jung‘s research interests include rural villages, daily life, economic change shown in historical documents, and personal diaries in the Joseon period. He also explores contemporary rural development, especially in 1970s Korea. He received Ph.D. in 2007 for the thesis on economic change and daily life at the Academy of Korean Studies. He published many articles including “The Coin Currency and Changes in Economic Life in Late Joseon Period” (2013), “Royal Protocols and Resources in Joseon, Korea”(2019), and “Korean Rural Development and International Development”(2022).

Dr. Hyejung Lee

Lee Hyejung is a researcher at the Jangseogak Archives of the Academy of Korean Studies. She is interested in the distribution process of books, royal library, and catalogue of the old books in the Joseon period. She received Ph.D. in 2019 for the thesis on “Study on Catalogue of Books in Jibokjae” at the Academy of Korean Studies.

Dr. Won Suk Chang

Wonsuk CHANG is a Senior Researcher at the Jangseogak Archives of the Academy of Korean Studies. He has earned his Ph.D.in philosophy degree at the University of Hawai’ i at Manoa. His research interests include East Asian philosophical tradition, East-West comparative philosophy, Translation of East Asian classics into western language about which he has delivered lectures at the Yonsei University, Korea University, University of Vienna, and Stockholm University and so on. His publication includes Confucianism in Context: The Classic philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond (SUNY Press:2010)”