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2nd Online International Summer School Program, “Discovering North Korea,”  which will run from July 29 to August 2, 2024 (10:00 – 15:00 German local time (CEST/UTC+2). This 5-day program features 10 engaging lectures delivered by leading experts on North Korea. The lectures will cover a variety of fascinating topics, providing participants with deep insights into North Korean society, politics, culture, and more.

The summer school is open to both undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. There is no tuition fee for this program.

This timezone for the summer school program is German local time (CEST/UTC+2)

For registration details, please refer to the brochure. Registration can be found above.



• North Korean Studies as a Research Field (Rüdiger Frank, University of Vienna)

• Geographies and Landscapes in North Korea (Robert Winstanley-Chester, University of Edinburgh)

• Postwar North Korea: Labor, Reconstruction, Everyday Life (Cheehyung Harrison Kim, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

• Conflicting Aims in North Korea’s Recent Foreign Policy (Balázs Szalontai, Korea University)

• From Jeongseong to Jangmadang: Cultural and Professional Adjustment of North Korean Refugee Doctors in South Korea, (Young Su Park, Seoul National University)

• The Women of North Korea (Bronwen Dalton, University of Technology Sydney)

• North Korean Performing Arts in the North and Transnational Space (Sunhee Koo, The University of Auckland)

• North Korean Sports on an International Platform: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy (Jung Woo Lee, University of Edinburgh)

• Human rights in North Korea and the challenge of accountability (Sarah Son, University of Sheffield)

• Humanitarian assistance in North Korea: Actors, Aid relationships and Institutions (Sabine Burghardt, University of Turku)

Organizer: Korean Studies, Goethe University of Frankfurt, korea.uni-frankfurt.de

Alexandra Fuchs, Ale.Fuchs@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Yonson Ahn, Koreastudien@uni-frankfurt.de