Co-Researchers & Experts

Dr. Sabine Burghart (University lecturer, University of Turku, Finland)

Her research concerns South Korea’s development assistance and the principle of ownership in the country’s aid relations. She currently analyses Korea’s bilateral relations with aid recipient countries, also drawing on her previous comparative study of East Asian donor countries – Korea, China and Japan (Ownership in East-Asian Aid Discourses, Forum for Development Studies, 44:3, 2017). She presented part of her work-in-progress titled ‘Korea’s aid philosophy: A participatory approach towards ODA?’ during the Korean Studies conference at Goethe University Frankfurt on 30 November 2018.

Dr. Hyuk-Sook Kim (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

As an expert on literary translation with a focus on contemporary literature, language, and culture of both South Korea and Germany, Dr. Hyuk-Sook Kim offers translation and language proficiency classes at Goethe-University, Frankfurt.