Committee on Korean Studies

Committee on Korean Studies 2019 Annual Meeting minutes

Friday, March 22, 9:00 pm (A draft to be approved at the 2020 General Meeting)

At 9:07, the meeting was called to order by Sunyoung Park, Chair.  CKS board members offered introductions.

9:14: A motion to approve the 2018 meeting minutes was passed.  A suggestion was offered to circulate future minutes in advance.

9:20: Sunyoung Park spoke on the role of CKS, after discussing the results of the April-May 2018 CKS survey in which members supported the continuation of CKS, the extension of the Chair’s term to two years, and the reduction of the size of the Executive Board from seven to five members.  She also discussed meeting with Academy of Korean Studies representatives at the World Congress of Korean Studies.

9:25: Albert Park of the AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) discussed the selection of panel and paper proposals at the Annual Meeting, Korea Foundation funding of NEAC for its grant program, and the relationship between NEAC and CKS.

9:35: Other members of the Executive Committee reported on specific CKS initiatives: CedarBough Saeji on the newsletter, Robert Oppenheim on the syllabus archive posted to the CKS website, Jisoo Kim on the CKS mentorship workshop, and Dal Yong Jin on the CKS roundtable at the 2019 Annual Meetings.

9:45: Sunyoung Park discussed the importance of building the CKS embership list.

9:48: Sunyoung Park offered a proposal to restructure the Executive Committee to have specific roles for committee members, to include Vice Chair, Treasurer, Publication Director, and Program Director.  The proposal was approved by floor vote.

9:52: Sunyoung Park discussed some future program initiatives.  Hilary Finchum-Sung, Executive Director of the AAS, noted the importance of members’ renewal of their membership.

10:00: The floor was opened for discussion and the sharing of news. Reports on programs and publications (with reporting member) included notes on the Modern Language Association translation series (Nayoung Aimee Kwon), Journal of Asian Studies Korea book reviews (Kyung Moon Hwang), Pacific Affairs (Dal Yong Jin), the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (Ross King), the book volume Beyond Death (Charles Kim), the Korean language summer immersion program at Minnesota (Dafna Zur), the Korea Anthropology Review (Hilary Finchum-Sung), the Korea Expose website (Cheehyung Harrison Kim), and the Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies (Ross King).

10:21: The meeting was adjourned.