Dr Dent has recently undertaken research into Korea’s free trade agreement (FTA) policy and projects, and has written a book on the wider regional trend of FTA activity in the East Asia and Asia-Pacific region. He has also looked at Korea’s position concerning new developments in East Asian regionalism. He continues to research on Korea’s foreign economic policy and economic development, as well as Korea’s situation in East Asia’s regional (economic) affairs. He is also writing a paper with Professor Christoph Bluth entitled ‘A Shrimp among the Whales – Korea in the North East Asian System of States’ as a contribution to an edited work on Regional Leadership in East Asia.

Recent Publications

• East Asian Regionalism (forthcoming January 2008) Routledge, London.
• New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific (2006) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• ‘Transnational Capital, the State and Foreign Economic Policy: Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan’, (2003) Review of International Political Economy, Vol 10(2), pp 246-77.
• The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan (2002) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• ‘What Difference a Crisis? Continuity and Change in South Korea’s Foreign Economic Policy’ (2000), Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol 5(3) pp 275-302.
• ‘New Interdependencies in Korea-EU Trade Relations’ (1998) Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 28(3), pp 366-389.
• ‘South Korea’s Foreign Economic Policy: New Parameters and Pressures Examined’ (1998), Global Economic Review, Vol 27(2), pp 59-76.
• ‘Economic Exchange and Diplomacy in Korea-EU Relations’ (1998), Korea Observer, Vol 29(2), pp 401-424.
• ‘EU-Korea Trade and Trade Diplomacy’ (1998), Korea’s Economy, Vol 14(1), pp 111-117.
• ‘Enter the Dragon: Chaebol Investment in Europe’ (1997), European Business Journal, Vol 9(4), pp 31-39 (with Claire Randerson).
• ‘EU-Korea Economic Relations: Building a Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century’ (1996) Insight, Vol 13 (Nov-Dec), pp 3-17.
• ‘Korean and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: An Examination of Comparable and Contrasting Patterns’ (1996), Asian Studies Review, Vol 20(2), pp 45-70 (with Claire Randerson).
• ‘Korean Foreign Direct Investment In Europe: The Determining Forces’ (1996), The Pacific Review, Vol 19(4), pp 531-52 (with Claire Randerson).

Knowledge Transfer

Dr Dent gives television, radio and newspaper interviews on issues relating to Korea’s economy and international economic relations, North – South Korea relations, and diplomacy with East Asian and Asia-Pacific countries. He also has links with the Korean Embassy in London and the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has regularly spoken on BBC World Service radio and has been cited in the Financial Times, Washington Times, Far Eastern Economic Review and Newsweek International on Korea-related affairs.

Professor Grayson’s current research is based upon field research carried out in 2004 on the development and history of ch’udo yebae, the Korean Protestant substitute ritual for the Confucian ancestral rite called chesa, and on another Protestant Christian ritual which was developed in the 1930s as a substitute for the Confucian coming-of-age ritual, the kwallye or ‘capping’ ceremony.

Recent Publications

• Korea: A Religious History - Revised Edition (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), pp. xvi, 288.
• Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated Compendium of Ancient and Modern Materials (Curzon Press, 2000), pp. xx + 454.
• Han'guk chonggyo-sa, (Seoul, Minjok-Sa, 1995). Korean Translation of Korea: A Religious History, pp. 421.
• Korea: A Religious History (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp.xii +329.
• Segye chonggyo sajŏn [in Korean, A Dictionary of World Religions] (Sŏul, Chongno sŏjŏk, 1989) pp.ii +513.
• Early Buddhism and Christianity in Korea: A Study in the Emplantation of Religion (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985). pp. x +164.
• Chon Rosŭ, Han'gug-ŭi ch'ŏt sŏn'gyo'sa [in Korean, John Ross, Korea's First Missionary] (Taegu, Kyemyŏng University Press, 1982). pp.325.
• "They First Saw a Mirror: A Korean Folktale as a Form of Social Criticism", v.16 (2006), 1-17, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Third Series. Winner of the 2006 Barwiss Holliday Award of the Royal Asiatic Society.
• "'Shinto' and Japanese Popular Religion: Case Studies of Multivariant Practice from Kyushu and Okinawa", v. 17 (2005), no. 3, 347-367, Japan Forum.
• "Christian Impact on Twentieth Century Religious Movements in Korea", special issue on "Korean Religion and Cultural Values", Korean and Korean American Studies Bulletin, v. 14 (2004), nos. 1/2, pp. 99-120.
• "Digging Up Buddhism: Tales Affirming the Antiquity of Buddhism in the Samguk yusa" Acta Koreana v, 7 (2004), no. 2, pp.103-120.
• "Rabbit Visits the Dragon Palace: A Korea-Adapted, Buddhist Tale from India", Fabula v. 45 (2004), nos. 1/2, pp. 69-90.
• "Susa-no-o: A Culture Hero from Korea", Japan Forum v. 14 (2002), no. 3, pp. 465-487.
• "Three Structural Patterns of Korean Foundation Myths", Acta Koreana v. 5 (2002),
  no. 2, pp. 1-25.
• "The Hŭngbu and Nŏlbu Tale Type: A Korean Double Contrastive Narrative Structure", Folklore, v.112 (2002), no.1, pp. 51-69.
• "The Shintō Shrine Conflict and Protestant Martyrs in Korea, 1938-1945", Missiology: An International Review, v. 29 (2001), no. 3, pp. 287-305.
• "Cultural Encounter: Korean Protestantism and Other Religious Traditions", International Bulletin of Missionary Research, v. 25, (2001), no. 2, pp 66-72.
• "Is the Myth of Tangun Unique? A Study of the Foundation Myths of Korea and Japan", Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies , v. 7 (2000), pp. 19-30.
• "The Legacy of John Ross; A Neglected Chapter in the History of Pan-East Asian Missions", International Bulletin of Missionary Research v. 23 (1999) no. 4 pp. 167 172.
• "Foundation Myths, Sacred Sites and Ritual: The Case of the Myth of the Three Clan Ancestors of Chejudo Island" Korea Journal, v. 38 (1998) no. 4, pp. 300-330.
• "'Sŏngha sindang': The Tutelary Shrine of T’aeha Village, Ullŭng Island, Korea", Asian Folklore Studies v. 57 (1998) pp. 275-291.
• "The Myth of Tan’gun: A Dramatic Structure Analysis of a Korean Foundation Myth", Korea Journal , v. 37 (1997), no. 1, pp. 35-52.
• "Female Mountain Spirits in Korea: A Neglected Tradition", Asian Folklore Studies, v.55, (1996), pp.119-134.

Knowledge Transfer

Professor Grayson gives radio interviews on topics related to contemporary Korea

Recent Publications

• ‘Hwang Byungki and North-South Musical Exchange’, Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, 2007, Vol. 11, pp. 49-56.
• ‘Ch’anggŭk: A Hybrid-Popular Musical Theatre of Korea’, CHIME Journal, 2005, Vol. 16-17, pp. 204-215.
• Southerners, Northerners. Translation (with Cho Sukyeon) of novel Namnyŏk saram pungnyŏk saram by Lee Ho-Chul, Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2005.
• ‘Road Test for a New Model: Korean Musical Narrative and Theater in Comparative Context’, Ethnomusicology, 2003, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 180-204.
• ‘Jockeying for Tradition: The Checkered History of Korean Ch’anggŭk Opera’, Asian Theatre Journal, 2003, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 43-70.
• ‘Korean Ch’anggŭk Opera: Its Origins and its Origin Myth’, Asian Music, 2002, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 43-82.

Knowledge Transfer

Dr Killick has been commissioned to write articles on Korean music for the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (New York: Garland, 2002), the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007) and Korean Air’s Morning Calm magazine. Dr Killick has also received a commission to write the liner notes for the CD Darha Nopigom: Byungki Hwang Gayageum Masterpieces Vol. 5, 2007.

Dr Son is currently working on a book, tentatively titled The History of Enemies: Identities, Norms and Inter-Korean Rapprochement, to be published in 2008.

Recent Publications

• ‘Entrenching “identity norms” of tolerance and engagement: lessons from rapprochement between North and South Korea’, Review of International Studies, July 2007, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp 489-509
• South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy 2006. London: Routledge.

Professor Smith is currently completing a book on The transformation of North Korea to be published by Cambridge University Press. She supervises 4 doctoral students on Korea and welcomes applications from highly qualified applicants.

Recent Publications

• Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian assistance and Social change, Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace press, 2005
• Reconstituting Korean Security (Tokyo: United Nations University press, 2007)
• Crime and economic instability: the real security threat from North Korea and what to do about it, in International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Vol. 5 No. 2 2005, pp. 235-249.
• How South Korean means support North Korean ends: Crossed purposes in Inter-Korean cooperation, International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2005, pp. 21-51.
• Regional Dialogue and Institution-Building: The Necessary Foundation for Human Rights Reform in the DPRK in Kie-Duck Park and Sang-Jin Han, (eds) Human Rights in North Korea: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding (Sungnam: The Sejong Institute, 2007), pp. 20

Professor Smith has been interviewed by the international media on Korea for nearly 20 years. Media interviews include with CNN, NBC, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC Nightline, PBS, BBC, KBS, Japan Times. Asahi Shinbun, Korea Times, New York Times, News week, The Guardian, Straits Times, South China Morning Post. Professor Smith is regularly invited to speak at research in international fora including the US, China, South Korea, Japan