The University of Southern California (USC) will hold a special symposium entitled South Korea Under a New Administration: Past, Present and Future. The symposium is scheduled for April 25. Professor Lim will participate as a discussant and moderater for a panel on “The U.S.-South Korea Alliance.”

ATHGO's 3rd Annual Global Forum, Miracles of Development: Good Governance and Capacity Building • Students are encouraged to participate in this forum, which will be held at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. from July 9-11. For more info and an application, click here. Limited financial assistance is available!

Professor Lim will be a featured panelist at a symposium entitled "Our Sisters are Not for Sale: Examining the Issue and Implications of Asian Trafficked Victims into the U.S." • The panel is co-sponsored by Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights, KAN-WIN and the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University, February 7, 2008. Other panelists are Rachel Durchslag, Kaitlyn Lim, Bing Luo, and Kavitha Sreeharsha. Click here to see full-size image of conference flyer.

Valuable Student Resource Guide Available • U.S. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard's office offers a comprehensive list of scholarships, internships and fellowships for college students. Click here to download the 2007 guide.

Internship Opportunity • "Training for Tomorrow," a congressional internship in the office of Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez. This internship is open to high school and college students whow have a minimum 3.0 GPA. Priority will be given to applicants who live, go to school, or work in the 39th District. Apply online at www.lindasanchez.house.gov/interships. Deadline for 2007 internships is FRIDAY AUGUST 24

Congatulations! Professor Atsuko Sato, adjunct faculty in the Department of Political Science, was awarded a Japanese Studies Fellowship (from the Japan Foundation) to study sustainability governance in Hokkaido, Japan. The title of her research is the "Status of Sustainability Governance in Hokkaido: A comprehensive survey of sustainability programs and practices initiated by public, private and non-profit sectors." She is one of 25 U.S.-based scholars selected as Japanese Studies Fellow for 2007, and the only representative from a CSU campus (other fellows are from Indiana University, Yale, Harvard, University of Michigan, Northwestern, Wake Forest, USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, among other universities).Dr. Sato is conducting her research at Hokkaido University during summer 2007

Scholarship Opportunity for Minority Students and Residents of California (posted May 11, 2007) • Millennium Momentum Foundation Scholarship. The MMFS targets undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in public service (public administration, public policy and related fields, including political science). Applications must be US citizens and a resident of California. Scholarships are limited to members of the following ethnic groups: African-American, Asian-Pacific American, Hispanic/Lation, or Indian/Native American. Successful applicants will receive a scholarship of $2,000

Internship Opportunity with the Pacific Council on International Policy • The PCIP provides part- and full-time intership opportunities for students interested in gaining practical experience in an NGO involved in foreign policy and world affairs. Deadline is July 1 for fall, April 1 for summer and Nov. 1 for spring. Full information is available on the Pacific Council on International Policy website.

January 2007 • Professor Lim received a $27,000 research grant from the Bombit Women's Foundation in Seoul, Korea to conduct research on the trafficking and smuggling of Korean women to the United States. The grant is part of a larger ($200,000) international project involving researchers in Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States.

Internship Opportunity • The Public Policy Institute of California has several internship opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students for summer 2007. Click here for more information.

December 27, 2006 • Professor Lim's POLS 459 Politics of East Asia course has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Students who registered for the class may enroll in an independent study, which can substitute for POLS 459 (and fulfill the elective requirements for the global politics option). Please e-mail Professor Lim if you have any questions.

October 27-30, 2006 • Professor Lim presented his paper entitled "Tsunami or Ebb Tide: Soft Power and the Limits of Hallyu" at the 3rd World Congress of Korean Studies held in Cheju, South Korea. The conference included 155 speakers from 28 countries around the world. Professor Lim was one of about 20 speakers from the United States. Click to download paper.

July 6, 2006 • Professor Lim presented his paper on the "Smuggling and Trafficking of Korean Women to the United States" at the International Symposium on Korean Victims of Trafficking held in Seoul, Korea on July 6. Press articles on Prof. Lim's paper appeared in the Hanguk Ilbo, Munhwa Ilbo, Kyonghyang Ilbo, and Chungang Ilbo and other Korean papers. Professor Lim's research on the smuggling and trafficking of Korean women to the United States is part of a larger international research project coordinated by the International Office for Migration (IOM) Seoul office and funded by the Bombit Women's Foundation in Korea.

June 2006 • Professor Lim invited to join the Board of Directors for Asia Youth Forum Korea. The AYF is an Asia-based organization designed to bring together college-aged students through the medium of English-as-as-Asian language to discuss language, culture, education, and global issues that affect their world today. The next forum will be held in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2007.

May 8, 2006. As part of the US Embassy Seoul Public Affairs program, Professor Lim was invited to speak on "International Migration to Korea," at Chonnam National University in Kwangju. Click for more.

May 2006 • Congratulations to Bryce Armendariz! Bryce, a graduate of the Department of Political Science in 2005, was accepted to five law schools, but decided to attend DePaul College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Depaul is ranked among the top 100 law schools in the United States.

January 4, 2006. Professor Lim will be on sabbatical from January to June 2006. During most of this time he will be in Seoul, Korea, but can still be contacted by e-mail (tclim@calstatela.edu). Although Professor Lim will not be teaching at CSLA during his sabbatical, he plans to keep the CourseSite up-to-date with news, information, and opinion from Korea. So, continue to check back!

January 4, 2006. Scholarship opportunity! Click here for information on the Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship 2006 Competition. The DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program is intended for students interested in pursuing the basic science and technology innovations that can be applied to the DHS mission.  This education program is intended to ensure a diverse and highly talented science and technology community to achieve the DHS mission and objectives.  Areas of study that are eligible include:  physical sciences, mathematical sciences, computer and information sciences, life sciences, social sciences, psychology, selected humanities, and engineering.

January 3, 2006. Congratulations to In Kyu Noh, recent graduate from the department's MA program. Mr. Noh has been accepted to Korea University's PhD program in Political Science. Korea University is ranked by the Times of England as one of the top 200 universities in the world, with one of the top 100 social science program. Korea University is one the premier private universities in Korea.

October 27, 2005 • Professor Lim's new book, Doing Comparative Politics now available through the publisher Lynne Rienner or Amazon.com. From the back cover: "Systematic, coherent, and user friendly, this decidedly nontraditional introduction to comparative politics is designed to teach students how to think comparatively and theoretically about the world they live in.The core of the book is organized around a set of critical questions—why are poor countries poor? why is East Asia rich? what makes a democracy? what makes a terrorist? what makes a social movement?—each the topic of a full chapter. These issue chapters are based on the solid methodological and theoretical foundation laid out in the first part of the book. Graphics and definition boxes enhance the text." Chapter One is available for download now!

October 2005 • CIAO Columbia International Affairs database now available through CSLA Library. [From the CIAO homepage] "CIAO is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs (click here to go to CIAO homepage). It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs." For full access, go to the library's database search page and log on using your NIS user name and password.

July 9-10, 2005. Congratulations to CSLA undergraduate student Erin Rosenbaum for earning "Honorable Mention" in the Youth for Peace speech and essay contest held on July 9-10 in Beijing, China. The contest included university students from Japan, China, and Korea. Erin was the sole representative from the United States. Read more.