http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea Facilitate cutting-edge research about Korea at UCLA en-us Abuses against children, political prisoners and families among the topics addressedhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=125976UCLA Center for Korean Studies and The Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowment for Contemporary Korean Studies launches new lecture series that aims to bring prominent speakers to campus to share their expertise on current issues of great interest to both Korean-Americans and non-Koreans. http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=124978Mercy Corps operations director urges prompt action to ease North Korean food crisis.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=122341Sim Sangjeung, a prominent labor organizer who spent years on the run as South Korea made its democratic transition, addressed an audience of about 55 in UCLA's Moore Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 23, saying that her country's labor movement would have to change dramatically to avoid becoming irrelevant.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=120046Since the teacher education program on Korea got its start in 2004, the UCLA Center for Korean Studies has supported KAFE's model of community engagement, sending renowned faculty members to lead training sessions and helping with programming. By way of a week-long, annual summer institute and other programs, CKS has reached out to roughly 2,000 school administrators and teachers from around the United States in recent years.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=119437The former Buddhist monk and activist for Korean democracy brings a distinctive voice to campus, two weeks after marking a milestone in his career, the completion of "Ten Thousand Lives."http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=115042A multidisciplinary group of Korean studies experts engaged a UCLA audience in discussion of contemporary issues facing the peninsula, at a symposium sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=114088Director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and a leading light on pre-modern Korea, Duncan has lived comfortably in two cultures since the late 1960s. Duncan is receiving the Korea Foundation Award in Seoul for a lifetime of contributions to Korean studies worldwide.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=113294Dosoung Choi of the Bank of Korea delivers the inaugural lecture in a series jointly sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Seoul National University. The lectures will look at global issues from Korean vantage points.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=113178Yu In-Chon, South Korea's minister of culture, sports and tourism, met Tuesday with UCLA Korean studies faculty members and Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost for international studies. Yu, a well-known former actor, heard from CKS Director John Duncan and Professors Burglind Jungmann, Sung Deuk Oak, Lisa Kim Davis and Dong-suk Kim about their current research and thanked them for building an excellent Korean studies program at UCLA.http://www.international.ucla.edu/korea/article.asp?parentid=111952