{"id":66826,"date":"2017-09-29T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=66826"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:45:26","slug":"korean-language-program-recent-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/29\/korean-language-program-recent-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Korean language program in the country revels in recent success"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_66850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66850\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-korean-flagship-center-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-korean-flagship-center-wedding.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-korean-flagship-center-wedding-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sang Lee (center) presides over the re-enactment of the traditional Korean wedding ceremony with students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Korean program in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u02bbs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/eall\/\">Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures<\/a> is the largest and strongest in the country in terms of faculty, curriculum and degree programs. The program\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/koreanflagship.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">Korean Language Flagship Center<\/a> trains American students to speak Korean as professionals in their chosen academic or professional fields.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to extensive overseas study and intensive courses at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, flagship students earned scholarships to continue their academic work at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> and abroad: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aaron Allen<\/strong> (ROTC-Flagship scholarship)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Lee, Brianna Leisure, Holly Moehlman,<\/strong> and <strong>Benjamin Yi<\/strong> (Foreign Language and Area Studies summer<br \/>\nfellowships)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ingrid Adams, Kyle Akuya, Emerson Allen, Jerel Berselona, Krystal Lopez, Victoria Meza, Kai Hong So, Adam-Jacob Sojot, Erica Vinluan,<\/strong> and <strong>Jade Young<\/strong> (Korean Language Flagship Center summer scholarships)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lacey Bonner<\/strong> (Center for Korean Studies Dong-Jae Lee Scholarship)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xiu Ju Conney<\/strong> (Gilman scholarship)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soo Youn Kim<\/strong> (Center for Korean Studies undergraduate scholarship)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eloise Morris<\/strong> (Boren scholarship)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victoria Meza<\/strong> (Center for Korean Studies undergraduate scholarship)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more program highlights at the <a href=\"http:\/\/lll.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/korean-language-flagship-students-enjoy-much-success\">College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Dyan Kleckner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to extensive overseas study and intensive courses at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, flagship students earned scholarships to continue their academic work at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[259,281,621,660,9],"class_list":["post-66826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-center-for-korean-studies","tag-east-asian-languages-and-literature","tag-korean-language-flagship-center","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66826"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124436,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826\/revisions\/124436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}