Visiting professer at UW-River Falls to speak on the two Koreas

November 6, 2017- Fulbright Visiting Professor Won Jun Nam, Ph.D., will speak on “The Two Koreas” Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Kinnickinnic Theater in the University Center as part of the “Year of” program at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. His talk, “The Two Koreas:  In the Eyes of a South Korean Temporarily Visiting America” is free and open to the public.

Nam is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Hankuk University, the major language university of South Korea. His visit to River Falls from Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterrey, Calif., where he has been conducting research since the beginning of the year, is enabled in part by the Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund.

An associate professor in the Department of English Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Languages in Seoul, his publications include addressing the translator’s perennial problem: “Learning to Translate Korean-Specific Cultural References.” An additional lecture by Nam, “Translation Studies in Korea and the Challenges We Face,” at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in 282 Kleinpell Fine Arts is also free and open to the public.

Each year UW-River Falls selects a country upon which to focus academic and cultural programming. Other events for the Year of Korea can be viewed at https://www.uwrf.edu/YearOf/SouthKorea.cfm. Interim Provost Faye Perkins and Soil Science Professor Don Taylor, chair of the “Year of” Implementation Committee, and the Department of English, TESOL, and Modern Languages also provided support for this visit.

For more information, call UWRF English Professor Marshall Toman at 715-425-3537.