Committee on Korean Studies

This is a summary of what was discussed at the General Meeting of the Committee on Korean Studies at the San Diego AAS meeting on March 29, 2013. The meeting was chaired by Todd Henry; the minutes were prepared by Youngju Ryu,

I. Welcoming remarks

II. Introduction of the Executive Board

– Outgoing members: Todd Henry (UC San Diego; current chair), Sonja Kim (SUNY Binghampton)

– Continuing members: Kelly Jeong (UC Riverside; new chair), SemVermeersch (Seoul National University)

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The general meeting of the CKS – open to all! – will take place in room Emma A (in the conference venue, Manchester Grand Hyatt) from 9:30 PM onwards on Friday 22 March. Be there! Besides introducing the new CKS committee members, the following items will be on the agenda:

• report by the chair on CKS activities over the past year
• the role of CKS at the AAS and beyond
• useful and necessary updates/improvements to the website
• CKS operation: elections, division of role, how you can help,…
• any other item you feel is relevant!

This January the elections for new board members were conducted; a big thank you to all who voted (100+)!
We would like to welcome Koen De Ceuster (Leiden), George Kallander (Syracuse), and Youngju Ryu (Michigan). After AAS 2013, they will replace Todd Henry and Sonja Kim.

All current members of AAS who have listed Korea as their first area of interest should have received an e-mail asking them to nominate three people to replace outgoing board members. The three people with the most nominations will be contacted and asked if they agree to stand for election. If you haven’t nominated anyone yet, please do so now! If you can no longer find the e-mail with instructions on how to nominate, please send an e-mail to sem_ver[at]hotmail.com. We haven’t received many nominations yet, so please take one minute to do so. And please choose someone who has not yet served!

The agenda at the Committee on Korean Studies (CKS) General Meeting, which took place at the 2012 AAS in Toronto, consisted of four main items:

• Report on the past year’s activities
• Introduction and discussion of the new CKS website/newsletter
• Discussion on Korean Studies resources (DVD, library)
• Discussion of the future of the CKS

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