[SNUAC] 2025 SNUAC WEEKLY (3rd Week of Mar)
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The second cohort of the Global Future Strategy Executive Program in Vietnam, jointly organized by Seoul National University Asia Center and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, held its opening ceremony on Friday, February 28th, at Lotte Hotel Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. With this expansion, the program now encompasses both northern and southern Vietnam. The program previously graduated 54 participants in its first cohort in Hanoi in late 2024, and the second cohort marks its first entry into southern Vietnam, making it particularly significant.
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[Publication] Quality Education for All in Asia
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The core focus of this book is to analyze education in developing countries from the perspective of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using case studies from ten countries in Asia. This approach does not assume a commonality among these countries based on their geographical, cultural, or social characteristics, nor does it aim to identify overarching patterns in how education is practiced and implemented within the region. In particular, the concept of education in this book is treated as a concrete reality within a given society, rather than as an intrinsic value or practice aimed at pursuing an idealized philosophical or ideological framework. Discussing abstract values related to education and development in ten developing countries—each classified based on economic growth—poses clear analytical challenges.
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SNUAC offers a visiting scholars fellowship to promote the exchanges of scholars at home and abroad interested in Asian studies and their cooperation with SNUAC.
Let us introduce the SNUAC visiting fellows for Spring 2025.
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Hyunjung Chi specializes in the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Korea and the history of medicine/psychiatry. She completed her PhD at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Her dissertation,“Managing the Distressed in an Age of Anxiety: Psychiatric Knowledge and Practice in South Korea, 1945-2000,” explored Korean psychiatrists as historical actors and examined their efforts to expand their profession, as they were developing their understanding of politics, illness, and normality, both within Korea and in a transnational context. Chi holds an MA in Sociology from Seoul National University and a BA in History from the University of California, Davis. Her work in the history of psychiatry in Korea has been published in the International Journal of Korean History, and her contributions to humanities research are forthcoming in various journals.
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