The 17th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers (WWC) Conference will be held at the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from May 9-10, 2024.

• Where: Center for Korean  Studies Auditorium
• When: May 9, 2024- May 10, 2024

The  Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Conference (WWC Conference) was initiated on February 20-21, 2005 by eight representative universities leading the world's Korean studies. The meeting participants reached the decision to form the WWC Conference composed by the Korean studies centers at 12 universities. The 12 core constituent universities of the WWC conference are: The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, UCLA, Harvard University, The Australian National University, The University of British Columbia, Korea University, Seoul National University, Fudan University, and Peking University. , Yonsei University, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Kyushu University.

This year, 21 faculty members (Directors of Korean studies centers and/or representative faculty members) from 14 participating Universities and 12 graduate students will join the WWC Korean Studies Centers Conference.

Except for the pandemic period of recent years, conferences have been held almost every year in the form of meetings of directors of the Korean Studies centers and academic conferences of graduate students where the directors and professors serve as discussants. The 17th WWC Conference has been decided to be held at the University of Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii's WWC Conference will be held on May 9-10, 2024, at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium and Conference room.

The 17th WWC academic conference events happen as follows:

(1) Meeting of directors or dispatched representatives of the Korean Studies centers affiliated with WWC

a. Sharing the status of Korean studies research and discussing current issues

b. The director's meeting will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both face-to-face meetings and online participation via the Internet.

(2) Academic conference will be held with the presentations by graduate students recommended by each Korean Studies center and discussions by the directors or representative professors.