Ateneo Korean Studies Program

Ateneo Korean Studies Program The Ateneo Korean Studies Program oversees all Korea-related initiatives of the university. For inquiries, contact:
Aurea C.

Korean Studies in Ateneo de Manila University was first set up in 2012 as the Ateneo Initiative for Korean Studies (AIKS) -- a platform for consolidating all Korea-related initiatives in the university and for incubating an autonomous academic Program on Korea. Within a short span of two years, the initiatives resulted to a Minor Program in Korean Studies; which was incubated in and by the Departm

ent of Modern Languages of the School of Humanities and another year later, to the creation of a full-fledged Korean Studies Program (KSP) under the School of Social Sciences, the first of its kind in the country. Through its close collaboration with other academic departments within the university and with Korean Studies experts and organizations here and abroad, KSP was able to grow as an Interdisciplinary Hub for Examining, Engaging and Experiencing Korea in Philippine Academia, with the widest course offerings on Korean Studies for undergraduate students, covering themes across various disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Apart from its regular courses, KSP likewise offers extramural classes to the public and has similarly pioneered the conduct of regional and inter-university Korean Studies outreach seminars/workshops/lectures through its 'Korea 101 Lab' Program. In 2016, it completed the development of the 'Portal of Korean Studies Resources in the Philippines', the only database that collates and centralizes access to Korean Studies references in the country. Through continuous research and collaboration with its partners, KSP endeavors to promote the critical study of Korea and contribute to the strengthening of Philippines-Korea relations. Korean Studies in the Philippines through Ateneo de Manila University: From Incubation to Institutionalization
Published in KSPS (Korean Studies Promotion Service) Newsletter No. 26
Korean and English Versions available here:
http://ksps-news.aks.ac.kr/
http://ksps-news.aks.ac.kr/news_view.jsp?ncd=143

Acknowledgment:
-The incubation of Korean Studies in Ateneo was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea through the Academy of Korean Studies Seed Grant and Special Korean Studies Grants.
-KSP acknowledges the Korea Foundation for its regular support for faculty development and research through the following grants: Dispatch of KF Visiting Professor; Global Challengers; Policy-Oriented Research Grant. Javier (Director) / Jamie Abucal (Program Secretary)
Korean Studies Program, School of Social Sciences
Ateneo de Manila University
3rd Floor, Leong Hall, ADMU
Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108 Philippines
[email protected] / [email protected]
+63 2 426 6001 local 5245 / +63 2 351 1620

06/06/2026

ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ ๐—ž๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†

Today, June 6, is Korean Memorial Day (ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ).

This national observance commemorates the patriots and fallen heroes whose service and sacrifice helped shape the Korea of today.

As learners of Korean language and culture, we take this opportunity to reflect on the significance of this day and remember the values of courage, dedication, and service that it represents.

๐Ÿ’ก DID YOU KNOW?

Every year on June 6 at 10:00 AM, sirens sound throughout South Korea for one minute, signaling a nationwide moment of silence in honor of those who gave their lives for the country. During this time, many people pause their daily activities to pay their respects.

๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We remember.

#์ผ€์†์‹œํ‹ฐ2 #์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น #ํ˜„์ถฉ์ผ

04/06/2026
Ateneo KSP Director Participates in Roundtable Discussion on Korean Studies in the Era of Globalization and Digital Tran...
27/05/2026

Ateneo KSP Director Participates in Roundtable Discussion on Korean Studies in the Era of Globalization and Digital Transformation๐Ÿ—ฃ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

KSP Director Ms. Aurea C. Javier presented how Ateneo continues to sustain Korean Studies in the era of globalization and digital transformation during the roundtable session of the international conference on Vietnam-Korea economic cooperation held at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City.

Guided by the theme, โ€œKorean Studies in the Era of Globalization and Digital Transformation: New Challenges and Development Strategies for Korean Studies in Vietnam,โ€ Ms. Javier joined the roundtable discussion, albeit online, with colleagues from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Korea. Together, they formed a panel that shared how their institutions are adapting to digital transformation and globalization. The panel also proposed strategic directions for sustaining Korean Studies in Vietnam, drawing from their own experiences and local realities. Their contributions enriched broader discussions on how Korean Studies can be reconfigured in a knowledge-based society.

Through this meaningful exchange, KSP continues to reaffirm its commitment to academic collaboration, regional engagement, and the advancement of Korean Studies. โœจ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท



๐Ÿ“ธUSSH, VNUHCM

18/05/2026

์„ธ์ข…๋Œ€์™• ํƒ„์‹ ์ผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!
๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ž๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜!

5์›”15์ผ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€๋„์ž ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ถ„์ด์ž ํ•œ๊ธ€ ์ฐฝ์ œ์ž์ธ ์„ธ์ข…๋Œ€์™•์˜ ํƒ„์‹ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Let's celebrate the birthday of King Sejong the Great, whose legacy continues to inspire learning, culture, and communication through Hangeul.

์„ธ์ข…๋Œ€์™•์˜ ๋ฐฐ์›€๊ณผ ์• ๋ฏผ์ •์‹ ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ €ํฌ ์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น-์ผ€์†์‹œํ‹ฐ2์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค!

๐Ÿ’ก ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„?
King Sejong the Great is one of Koreaโ€™s most respected historical figures and is best known for creating Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, to make literacy more accessible to the people. He is also known for supporting advancements in science, education, agriculture, music, and technology during the Joseon Dynasty.

#์„ธ์ข…๋Œ€์™• #์„ธ์ข…๋Œ€์™•ํƒ„์‹ ์ผ #ํ•œ๊ธ€ #์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น

18/05/2026

๐—ž๐—ฆ๐—œ-๐—ค๐—–๐Ÿฎ ๐—™๐—œ๐—ก๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—”๐—  ๐—ฆ๐—–๐—›๐—˜๐——๐—จ๐—Ÿ๐—˜

๐Ÿ“ข Attention KSI QC2 Current Students!

Please check your final exam schedule and room assignment carefully. Kindly arrive 10โ€“15 minutes before your exam time.

Good luck and ํ™”์ดํŒ…, everyone!
Do your best on your final exams!

#์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น #ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๊ณต๋ถ€

15/05/2026

์Šค์Šน์˜ ๋‚  ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€โ€™ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†!

์Šค์Šน์˜ ๋‚ ์„ ๋งž์•„, ๋Š˜ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น˜๊ณ  ์ง€๋„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ์‹œ๋‹ค!
Today, we celebrate and honor all teachers who continue to inspire and guide students through learning and care.

์ €ํฌ KSI-QC2์˜ Au ์Œค, Titay ์Œค, JM ์Œค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Oliver ์Œค๊ป˜๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Thank you for your passion, guidance, and dedication to teaching and sharing Korean language and culture.

๐Ÿ’ก ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„?
In South Korea, Teacherโ€™s Day (์Šค์Šน์˜ ๋‚ ) is celebrated every May 15. The date was chosen in honor of King Sejong the Great, who is widely respected for promoting education and creating Hangeul, the Korean alphabet. On this day, students often give carnations and handwritten letters to express gratitude and respect for their teachers and mentors.

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜! Salamat po!

#์Šค์Šน์˜๋‚  #์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น **o

08/05/2026

์–ด๋ฒ„์ด๋‚  ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€โ€™ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†!
Today, we celebrate and honor the love, sacrifices, and unwavering support of parents and elders.

๋ถ‰์€ ์นด๋„ค์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. May this day be filled with gratitude, love, and meaningful moments with our families. โค๏ธ

๐Ÿ’ก ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„?
South Korea celebrates Motherโ€™s Day and Fatherโ€™s Day together as ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€โ€™ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜† (์–ด๋ฒ„์ด๋‚ ) every May 8. Originally observed as Motherโ€™s Day, it officially became Parentsโ€™ Day in 1973 to honor both mothers and fathers. One of the most meaningful traditions during this day is giving red carnations and handwritten letters as symbols of love and gratitude.

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Salamat po.

#์–ด๋ฒ„์ด๋‚  #์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น

05/05/2026

์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚  ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ปโ€™๐˜€ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†!

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์ธ ๋‚ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! Today, we celebrate the joy, dreams, and bright future of every child.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?
์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚  began in 1923 through the efforts of the children's rights activist Bang Jeong-hwan to promote childrenโ€™s dignity and rights in Korea. Today, it is a major public holiday where families celebrate by visiting amusement parks, zoos, and spending time together.

May all children continue to grow with happiness, curiosity, and learning ๐Ÿ’™

#์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚  #์„ธ์ข…ํ•™๋‹น

01/05/2026

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ
๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜†! (๋…ธ๋™์ ˆ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!)

Today, we honor the dedication, resilience, and hard work of all workers who continue to shape our communities and societies.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋™์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ณ  ์กด์ค‘๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋…ธ๋™์ž๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์กด๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

From classrooms to workplaces, your efforts make progress possible.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?
Labor Day in Korea began on May 1, 1923, was later renamed โ€œWorkersโ€™ Day (๊ทผ๋กœ์ž์˜ ๋‚ )โ€ and moved to March 10 during the 1961 military regime, then restored to May 1 in 1994; this year, it is officially designated as a national public holiday and its name restored to โ€œLabor Day (๋…ธ๋™์ ˆ),โ€ expanding recognition and time off to more workers.

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Salamat po.

#๋…ธ๋™์ ˆ

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