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IN THIS ISSUE On the Cover: Korean Studies at Penn
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For Korean Studies at Penn: A $5 million commitment was made last week when President Judith Rodin and Ambassador Joungwon Kim--who also heads the Korea Foundation--signed an agreement for the University and the Foundation to endow professorships in Korean Studies. See On the Cover. Photo by Jake Wong, courtesy of The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Illustrations at top, courtesy of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library's East Asian Bibliographer Karl Kahler, show a Tiger by Sim Sa-jong (1707-1770), on a background of calligraphy in the Chinese style and in the Korean hangul, from the 1447-48 Dictionary of Proper Korean Pronunciations of Chinese Characters. |
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