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Pedro Krotsch offered a Conference to present the translation of the book Education Fever. Society, politics and the pursuit of schooling in South Korea, by Michel Seth.

Carolina Mera, Paula Iadevito y Bárbara Bavoleo will participate in the IV World Congress of Korean Studies next September in Seoul, Korea.

Pablo Blitstein, who is doing his Master Degree in France, is visiting us for a few days.

Ignacio Villagran has obtained a scholarship for his PhD in Ancient China, in Michigan University (USA). He will travel in September with her wife Silvia and her daughter Agustina

Pablo Gavirati, has obtained an UBACyT Estimulo 2008 scholarship, for his project Environmental culture in Japan through its mediatic production: the case of the anime of Hayao Miyazaki and its reading in Buenos Aires.

Paula Iadevito, Jessica Nessim y Barbara Bavoleo have obtained the prize by the Korean Studies Department of the University of California (UCLA) in the frame of the Project with the Academy of Koreans Studies.

Paula Iadevito has also obtained the approval of UBA Institutional Recognition for her project New sceneries, new actors in modern Korea: Reflections on the (re)configuration of public and private spaces

Pilar Álvarez defended her MA thesis at Yonsei University on the Construction of the Collective Memory of Colonial Korea in the Contemporary South Korean Cinema, in the beginning of 2008

Carolina Mera will carry out her field work on the 1.5 generation of Korean – Argentineans in the City of Los Ángeles during this September.

This month, classes started for the module on China, Korea and Japan, which is chaired by Carolina Mera in the Social Science School, with the participation of members of the GEEA team

Ramiro Trost started working at CECA from last March in the area of Institutional Relationships and Press, after his experience in KBS of South Korea for more than seven years.

Visits:

Professors Robert Buswell and John Duncan of the University of California (UCLA) visited the country and offered Conferences about Korea in our University, in La Plata National University and in the School of Oriental Studies of El Salvador University.

We have also received Prof. Kim Kio Chung, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Women's Information Network Center and Professor in Sookmyung Women's University of Korea. She presented a conference on Women and New Technologies in Korea, co organized with the Cátedra Regional UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America

Prof. Han Sang Jin from Seoul National University and Prof. Shim Young Hee, Director of the Hanyang Institute for Women, offered classes on contemporary aspects of Korean society, in UBA School of Social Science and in La Plata National University, with the enthusiastic participation of graduate and undergraduate students.