IU gifted $1.6M to endow Korean studies professorship
Seung-kyung Kim, director of the IU Institute for Korean Studies. (photo courtesy of James Brosher, Indiana University)
by: Mary Willkom, Inside INdiana Business
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Mar 10, 2021 / 11:47 AM EST
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) – The Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and its Institute for Korean Studies have received $1.6 million from the Korea Foundation and IU alumni Young-Jin Kim and William (Won-Suk) Joo. IU says the gift will endow a professorship in Korean studies.
The professorship will be established in the Hamilton Lugar School’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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