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The Ko family were leading representatives of the Korean intellectual diaspora in the Boston area in the mid-twentieth century. Dr. Ko Kwang-lim (1920–1989), an international law scholar and acting ambassador from South Korea to the United States (1960), earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Political Science from Rutgers University ...
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Kwang Lim Koh and Dr. Hesung Chun Koh serve as important links in connecting many of the scattered dots in the vast landscape of this research project. They were pioneers in their efforts to research and introduce Korean culture to American society.
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After graduating from Kyonggi Girl’s High School in 1946, Hesung's academic career began at Ewha Women's University where she majored in English and Korean Literature. Despite scoring highly on the national entrance exam and being accepted into Seoul Women’s Medical School, Hesung decided to pursue her dream of studying abroad. In 1948 she left Kor...
Over the span of her career, Hesung, has taught a variety of courses such as: Korean society and culture, East Asian law and society, women, gender roles, Korean and Japanese language, sociology, deviant behavior, and planned change. In addition, she has taught at a number of academic institutions including Yale University, Yale Law School, Boston ...
In addition to her teaching experience, Hesung has worked in academic libraries as an East Asian language specialist. As an undergraduate student during the summer of 1950 she worked in the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress and at the US Army Map Service, where she translated the first U.S. 1:50,000 scale map of South Korea, which requ...
Hesung has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Order of Civil Merit (the Republic of Korea’s highest award to a civilian), the Connecticut Governor’s Award, Prime Minister’s Award in South Korea ,and the Korean Broadcasting Society Overseas Korean Compatriot Prize in South Korea. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Outstanding A...
National Science Foundation (1965 - 1968 and 1970 - 1972)American Council of Learned Societies - Social Science Research Council (1972 and 1968)National Academy of Science (1972)Japan Foundation (1974-1975)This system was formerly initiated by Dr. Hesung Chun Koh at the Human Relations Areas Files (HRAF) at Yale University in 1966 as the Korean Social Science Bibliography Computerization Project with a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. It was a pilot model to digitize HRAF’s cross-cultural dataset of 300 cultures of the world in ...
Koh(pen name: TongAm, or "East Rock" in Korean) is an artist of Asian Brush painting. While she was on sabbatical(1996-1999) she took classes with master teacher Sozan Matsuba. Since then with the support of her colleagues, art historians, and scholars in Japan, Korean, and the US, she has had several solo exhibits in Kyoto, Seoul, New Haven, and H...
American Sociological Association, Fellow (1951- )East Rock Institute (also Korea Institute) 1952 co-founder of the Korea Institue in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Dr. Kwang Lim Koh which became 501 (c) 3 in 1956 and served as its Board member/pro...Ecumenical Service: 1. Northern New England School of Religious Education "NNESRE" - Vice-chair for 7 years, faculty for 4 years and member since 1966 to today 2. The New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church "NYAC of UMC" Board of Ordained Ministry - teaching church school for 7 years in New Haven, etc. Korean American Community Se...
After moving to the Boston area in the 1950's, Hesung and her husband, became active in developing a community with other Korean graduate students, visiting scholars, professionals and immigrant families. They were involved in the establishment of the first Korean Church in the Boston area, and the Greater Boston Korean Association. In 1956 they fu...
Sep 11, 2018 · Koh. Since moving to New Haven in 1961, the Koh Family has made monumental contributions in the fields of international relations, health and human rights. As South Korean natives, the late Kwang Lim Koh and his wife, 89-year-old Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, dedicated their lives to inspiring cross-cultural exchange, Kwang Lim as former South Korean ...
We were founded in 1952 (initially as the Korea Institute) in Cambridge, Massachusetts by the husband-and-wife team of Kwang Lim Koh and Hesung Chun Koh. After leaving Cambridge for New Haven, the Koh family moved the institution with them, renaming it the East Rock Institute in reference to a New Haven landmark.
requests from Kwang Lim Koh and Hesung Chun Koh for the creation of a Korean Studies program at Yale. This was the Koh couple’s second year of teaching a course entitled "East Asian Law and Society" at the Yale Law School. They emphasized the close interrelationship between Chinese, Korean, and Japanese history and culture and pointed
Mar 27, 2009 · This week, two of Hesung Chun Koh's six accomplished children were nominated to high positions in the Obama administration. ... Kwang Lim Koh, an expert in East Asian and international law, was a ...
