2024-04-16 - Are you planning to study abroad in Korea next year or just want to learn a new language and culture of the Squid Game, BTS, and K-BBQ? SU24 KOR 201 will be a great opportunity to learn about the Korean culture and the basics of how to speak, read and write in Korean. 2024 Summer Online KOR 201 offered in summer term II • Meets 6/10 -8/1 • 5...

2024-03-29 -   JAPN 201: Elementary Japanese I Introduction to Japanese, spoken language skills and the reading and writing of hirigana, katakana, and kanji. The course will be taught online using Zoom and Canvas. The class will meet synchronously for 2 hours, twice a week (typically Tuesdays and Fridays).

2024-02-14 -   The Eighth Annual UIUC Korean Speech Contest will be held in person at 7 pm in Lincoln Hall Room 1000 on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures [EALC],  the Center of East Asian and Pacific Studies [CEAPS], and Korean Students Association (KSA). This event is...

2024-02-14 - The Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies will have a screening of "Train to Busan (부산행)" on February 29th, 7 pm at Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested!  

2024-01-13 - The next Korean Proficiency Test (KPT) will be scheduled for an in-person administration at 9:30 AM [CT] on Friday, August 23, 2024. Please note that this test will not be administered online.  Time: 9:30 am to 12 pm (CST) on Friday, August 23, 2024 Location: G 27, LCLB (in the basement, marked...

2023-02-06 - Register by March 10 2023 Date 02/06/23   7th UIUC Korean Speech Contest The 6th Annual UIUC Korean Speech Contest will be held in person at 7 pm in Lincoln Hall Room 1000 on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures [EALC]...

2023-02-04 - EALC has an exchange program with National Tsing Hua University to sponsor several study abroad scholarships to study Mandarin in Taiwan.   Note that the fall application deadline is 2/15. coming up soon. The city Hsinchu mix big city (half a million population), traditional (temples and night markets), mountains (Professor Shih comments: “I rank my trip to the tea farmers in the...

2023-01-18 - ACES and LAS are pleased to share a new summer study abroad opportunity that will be open to students across campus! We will hold an information session at 4:30 pm on Tuesday January 24th and pizza will be provided. Date and Time: 4:30-5:30 pm on Tuesday, January 24 Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge (Foreign Language Building)   The...

2022-09-13 - Chancellor Jones’s office announced the list of projects funded by the Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program for 2022-23, including the project on Yellow Peril Redux that is developed from EALC 398 during the past 3-4 years.   Yellow Peril Redux: From Coolies to Concentration Camps, Trade Wars, and Coronavirus – $75,000...

2022-09-09 - The Blakemore Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2023 Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for an academic year of advanced language study in East and Southeast Asia. The application deadline is December 30, 2022. If you are interested, please visit here: https://...

2022-09-07 - The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an assistant professor tenure-track position in Chinese Linguistics. The successful candidate is expected to have an active research agenda, to direct or co-direct the Chinese language program, and to teach a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels....

2022-04-22 - Credit: 5 hours For more information, please contact Professor Sadler: (sadlerm@illinois.edu).  

2022-04-06 - As a companion event to the 2022 Kang lecture, EALC and CEAPS are proud to host a symposium on "Reading and Reception of Canonical Texts in East Asia". In this panel, three renowned experts discuss the rich reception histories of several major canonical texts of China, Korea, and Japan. Analyzing iterations in media ranging from ancient bronze...

2022-03-18 - This year's lecture will be: Zhi Chen, "Binomes, Idioms, and Tetrasyllabic poetry in Light of Paleography." For more information, and to register, click here.  

2020-11-10 - The Spring 2021 Korean Placement/Proficiency test will be administered online, using Canvas with remote proctoring  as follows: Date: Friday, January 15 2021 Time: 9:30 a.m. - Noon [CST] Before signing up for this placement/proficiency test, you will need to make sure that you have met all the following requirements for the testing...