The K-Study Proliferation Research Center was established to successfully perform the ‘K Academic Proliferation Research Project (5 years, 5 billion won)’ ordered by the Academy of Korean Studies. The study subject is 'K-content's Formation and Dynamics: Korean language as cultural genes of Hallyu’. The goal of this project is to converge the enthusiasm of the world's Hallyu and convert it into the academic interest in Korean studies. The K-content, the core engine of Hallyu does not emerge by itself disconnected from the content. This is the result of the creation by the cultural genes that have been gained and accumulated in the process of formation and interconnection among the Korean language, Korean literature and Korean culture.

The research center will develop various educational contents and academic content mainly with cultural content reflecting the latest achievements of Korean literature. As a result, we will contribute to the spread of the mutually-beneficial Hallyu and the formation of a healthy discourse of the K-content. We also foster the global academic successor to Korean studies.

Introduction

Department of Korean Language and Literature at Kyung Hee University and K-Culture·Story Contents Research Institute are working effortlessly to successfully proceed "K-Academic Diffusion Research Institute Project (5 billion won in 5 years)" sponsored by the Korea Research Institute.
The research topic of this project group is 'The Birth and Dynamics of K-Contents: Korean Language as a Korean Wave Cultural Gene.' This project aims to converge and convert the passion of the world for Hallyu into an academic interest in Korean studies as a whole.
K-Contents, the driving force of the Korean Wave, is the result of the creation of cultural genes that have been accumulated in the process of forming, traversing, and crossing Korean culture. Accordingly, our project group will contribute to the spread of the Coexisting Korean Wave and the formation of a healthy discourse surrounding K-Contents and foster global academic successor generations in Korean studies.

Vision

Development and dissemination of research and educational content based on K-academic achievements in the field of Korean literature (Korean language + literature + culture)

Goals

To train global Korean studies researchers to understand the origin and dynamics of K-Contents through the Korean language, literature, and culture

Educational Design

Objectives

Global citizens are now more than aware of Koreans’ recent accomplish-ments in the area of political advancements and economic developments. Korean popular culture has been generating tremendous buzz in every corner of the world. Now it is time to let people around the world know, that aside from all the modern successes the Koreans were able to achieve, Korea still has much to offer.
For the past century, Korean scholars have been engaged in studies of its own history, literature, philosophy and art, which we would now have to try spreading around the world.

Koreanology programs on the KSPS Global platform have been endeavoring to lay out the ground work for that very purpose. Infrastructure for Koreanology studies and education is being established everywhere as a result of such efforts. Now it is time to provide such systems with proper software, including academic contents that could be utilized in researches and education.
2021’s new program, Fostering a New Wave of K-Academics, funds domestic Korean research institutes to develop new Korean studies combining Korean expertise and foreign interests, and create online educational contents that could aid foreign Koreanology research and education in the years to come.

Curriculum

Course completion system