• Date: October 31st, Thursday, 2019 15:00-16:30
• Location: Room 304, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

This colloquium will examine the ‘life of migrant Muslims in Korea’ largely in two aspects. First of all, we will look at the numbers, major nationalities, major occupations and distribution of residential locations of the Muslims living in Korea as migrants. Based on this information, we will investigate how Muslims of each country have organized and are engaging in religious communities, with cases of Indonesian and Pakistani Sunni Muslim communities. Through this colloquium, we will see how Muslims today harmoniously live in Korean society and seek a possibility of symbiosis in the future.

Speaker: Yi Soo Jeong (Co-researcher, SNUAC Western Asia Center)

On October 31st, Thursday, the second special lecture hosted by Western Asia Center was held at Room 304, SNUAC. The presentation was given by Yi Soo Jeong, a co-researcher at SNUAC Western Asia Center.
The topic was ‘The Status of Migrant Muslims in Korea and the Organization of Religion’. Dr. Yi received her master’s and Ph.D. from HUFS, and currently works as a lecturer at HUFS Dept. of Arabic Interpretation and Translation as well as the chair of finances at Korean Association of Middle Eastern Studies and guest researcher at HUFS Institute of the Middle East Studies.  She has also worked as an adjunct professor in the Dept. of Arabic Language at Korea Army Academy at Yeong-Cheon. Dr. Yi started with an explanation of the Islamic religion and went on to explain the history of Islam in Korea and an overview of Muslims in Korea.
She introduced the number of Muslims migrated and living in Korea, their major nationalities, occupations, and housing concentrations, based on which she went on to explain how the Muslims of each nationality are organizing religious communities in Korea, centering around the Sunni Muslim communities of Indonesia and Pakistan.
Kyu-lin Cho (SNUAC 12th Cohort Research Intern, HUFS) commented that the lecture was a valuable session through which we learned of various members of the Muslim community in Korea, and that the participants could think about the lives that Muslims are living in Korea.

Review & photos by DooWon Chang (Academic Reporter)