The Center for Korean Studies receives grant for "Koreans in the World" project. The Korean Studies Conference Support Grant supports UCLA Ph.D. students to present Korean studies-related research at ...

At the end of the 20th century, Park Hae-il's acting career kicked off on a playhouse stage. Shortly after, he debut feture film, Yim soon-rye's Waikiki Brothers (2001), put him on the map in ...

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This one-hundred-year history of the island of Guåhan, also known as Guam, charts how Indigenous CHamorus and Filipino migrants navigated and negotiated the expansion of US imperialism and militarism ...

“What's really important is not only what I learned in Australia, but how it is seen through a U.S. lens as well," said UCLA sophomore Fiona Xie about the program. UCLA International Institute, ...

A political and economic overview of a developing nation. Living standards for Peruvian people were unbearable in the late 1980s due to an unmanageable debt and hyper-inflation. The two ...

Shortbus star Sook-Yin Lee doesn't mind getting down and dirty. The Canadian-born radio personality turned leading lady once stumbled upon a piece of plastic plumbing tube as she was passing through a ...

SCRIPTURAL COLLECTIONS (Selective List of Modern Published Editions) Taishō shinshū dai zōkyō 大正新脩大藏經 [Revised version of the canon, compiled during the Taishō era]. Ed. Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 ...

UCLA International Institute, May 23, 2018 — In the course of six months, from October 1965 through mid-1966, roughly half a million members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis ...

The baka/bacá, errant spirits on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that turn humans into animals through sorcery, are the subject of Robin Derby's new book, “Bêtes Noires." Not just any animals, mind ...

Rebecca Calinsky Rebecca Calinsky “ The absence of a particular expression in the vocabulary of a nation does not necessarily coincide with the absence of the corresponding notion but it certainly ...

In July, 2012, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism published the English Edition of The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism in thirteen volumes. This is the first comprehensive collection of Korean ...