Researchers
The Institute of Russian Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies was established as the Institute of the Soviet Union and East European Issues on January 13, 1972 in Seoul. In those days, the international community was dominated by cold war ideology, which made any communication or exchange between the Republic of Korea and the Communist bloc virtually impossible. The IRS was the first research center that began collecting and examining periodicals from the Soviet Union, North Korea, and other socialist states. Being the only Soviet Union and East European Issues research institute in Korea, the IRS was able to obtain an unrivaled position in this field. In a country where little research was being conducted on socialism, the IRS exerted a strong influence on the direction of these studies, leading the discourse on communism. From the early 1990s the IRS began to narrow its research subjects to Russia and the CIS region. Concentrated studies on the economies, politics, societies and cultures of the CIS region and Russia became the focus of the Institute. In 1993, the Institute officially changed its name to the Institute of Russian Studies, and in July of 1999, due to space constraints, the IRS relocated to Hankuk University’s Global Campus in Yongin.
The IRS regularly invites distinguished scholars from Russia and other parts of the world to give special talks.
Invited speakers come from diverse academic fields, including politics, economics, and literature.
1.HK Director
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- Name Pyo Sangyong
- Degree Ph.D., University of Marburg, Linguistics
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2.HK Professor
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- Name Min Soo Kim
- Education Ph.D., Chita State University(Russia)
- Detailed Specialty Semantics, Philosophy of Language
- Specialty Linguistics
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- Name Joonseo Song
- Education Ph.D in history(Michigan State University)
- Detailed Specialty Borderlands, Local identities, Memory of war
- Specialty History
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- Name Ji Yeon Lee
- Education PhD(Institute of Russian Literature, Academy of Science of Russian Federation)
- Detailed Specialty 20th Century Russian Literature and Russian Avant-garde Culture, Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture
- Specialty Russian Literature
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- Name Woo Ik Choi
- Education Ph. D. in Sociology at Moscow State University
- Detailed Specialty Social Stratification, Population
- Specialty Sociology
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- Name Sung-Woo Hwang
- Education Ph. D. Politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Detailed Specialty History, Culture, and Area Studies
- Specialty History
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3.HK Research Professor
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- Name Seun Rae Kim
- Education M.A Ph.D in Political science, IMEMO in Moscow, Russia
- Detailed Specialty Russian Politics
- Specialty Political Science
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- Name Hye Jin Kim
- Education Ph.D, Moscow State University
- Detailed Specialty Ethnic Groups, Diaspora, Folklore
- Specialty Ethnology
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- Name Seung Do Ra
- Education University of Texas at Austin
- Detailed Specialty Russian Literature, Cinema, Culture
- Specialty Russian Literature, Cinema, Culture
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- Name Keon Joo Eo
- Education Ph.D. in Russian Literature, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Detailed Specialty Syntax, Semantics
- Specialty Linguistics
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4.Co-researchers
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- Name Kim Soohwan
- Degree Ph.D., Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Major Russian Literature
- Affiliation Department of Russian Language, HUFS
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- Name Jeh Sunghoon
- Degree Ph.D., Moscow State University
- Major Politics
- Affiliation Department of Russian Language, HUFS
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