Activities with ASEAN's dialogue partners
ASEAN - ROK (South Korea)

ASEAN-ROK Academic Exchange Programme

The AUN has been cooperating with the Korean Association for Southeast Asian Studies (KASEAS) under the ASEAN-ROK Academic Exchange Programme.

Aim:

To promote a new regional identity and solidarity of East Asia by establishing the academic communities of ASEAN and Korea providing opportunities for mutual communication and collaboration .

Activities:

This reoccurring programme composes of five activities namely; Preparation Workshop, Academic Conference, Roundtable Meeting, Exchange Fellowship, and Joint Research. Firstly, the Preparation Workshop aimed to outline and schedule overall work plans for other activities in each Programme.

The Programme of Exchange Fellowship provides scholarships (3weeks to 6 months) for students and scholars in various fields to conduct researches aiming at the construction of ASEAN-Korea Solidarity. The awardees are required to submit the final report of research work three months after they return to their home countries.

Distinguished ASEAN and Korea scholars are selected to work together under Joint Research Programme . The outcome of research work will be published in book form, and distributed to universities, academic institutions and relevant government agencies.

Scholars and researchers from Southeast Asia and Korea are invited to present paper under the set themes at Academic Conference . The themes of the Conferences are various depending upon regional circumstances. After the Conference, all the paper presented are edited and published in the form of proceeding.

Past Activities:

The 2005 Programme, comprises of Exchange Fellowship Programme and Preparation Workshop, started off with the announcement to accept the application for Exchange Fellowship Programme in June 2005. 6 ASEAN researchers were granted to conduct their researches in the Republic of Korea and completed their research papers in August 2006.

From 1999 and 2001 Programme;

- 2 academic conferences were held under the topic “Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia and Korea : Its social, Political and Cultural Impacts” (2000), and “Regional Cooperation and Identity Building in East Asia in the Age of Post-Cold War Globalization” (2004).

- 18 ASEAN scholars were granted to conduct their researchs in the Republic of Korea under Exchange Fellowship Programme. The result of their researchs was published in a proceeding and book titled “Update on ASEAN and Korean Studies”.

- 24 distinguished scholars of ASEAN and Korea participated in the Joint Research Programme. They published 2 publications entitled “Human Resources Development and Training in Korea-ASEAN Countries” and “Relations between Southeast Asia and Korea in the Past.”

- The data on ASEAN and Korean Studies were collected, analyzed and presented under “The Survey and Roundtable Meeting in ASEAN and Korean Studies.”

Ongoing Activities:

The 2006 Programme, comprises of Exchange Fellowship Programme, Workshop and Conference and Scholarship for Master Degree in Korean Studies. The application of the Exchange Fellowship Programme was announced in November 2006 with the deadline for the application submission is on 16 February 2007.

The AUN in coolaboration with KASEAS are going to organize the Korea-ASEAN Academic Conference on Information Revolution and Cultural Integration in East Asia, scheduled to take place on 25-26 January 2007 in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

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