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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.
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The Russian Institute held a next-generation humanities lecture for Russian language students at the audiovisual room on the first floor of Seoyeon High School in Dongtan New Town, Gyeonggi-do at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. At this event, which was held as part of the HK+(II) <Regional Humanities Center> project, Dankook University Department of Russian Studies Professor Kyu-yeon Cho gave a lecture on the topic of “Russian art, creative ideas, and moments of artistic innovation.”
In his lecture, Professor Cho Gyu-yeon emphasized that the moments that changed human perception of the world through creative thinking and changes in ideas were mainly embodied through art. He explained that a ‘great’ artist is someone who breaks away from the existing framework and creates something new, and that if the new world view presented in their creations is listed in chronological order, that is art history.
Professor Cho Kyu-yeon looked at the overall characteristics and influence of early 20th century Russian art in relation to European painting. In addition, starting from Impressionism, European art shifted from a history of ‘representation’ centered on ‘content’ to a history of ‘distortion’ centered on form, and he mentioned that the tendency that responded most sensitively to this change was the Russian avant-garde during the revolutionary period. Appreciate the various works of artists representing the Russian avant-garde, such as Kandinsky, who painted emotions through abstraction, Malevich, who excluded form and color and presented the limits of painting, and Chagall, who laid the foundation for surrealism by painting dreams, as revealed in 20th-century Russian art. It was a valuable time to look for mechanisms of subversion and critical moments of creativity and innovation, and to point out the meaning of these creations in the history of painting.
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