The Institute for Korean Studies presents:
Seung-Ryong Kim
Professor of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese
Pusan National University
Han Chae
Professor of Korean Medicine
Pusan National University
"Reading Classical Literature and its Role in Character Development"
Flyer: Seung-Ryong Kim and Han Chae Flyer
Abstract: The Analects was written by Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries during the Warring States period (475–221 BC). There has been a belief that education of traditional classics including the Analects is useful for character development, however it has not been examined or analyzed using objective measures. Kim and Chae believe that the ‘matured personality’ would be the benefit of character development, and the person with matured character would have more adaptive and less maladaptive cognitive process in recognizing and responding to negative stresses which can be measured using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) of Garnefski. The CERQ examines the use of automated or emotional responses to stressful stimulus, and has two domains of adaptive and mal-adaptive strategies for regulating emotions. To attest the research question, they compared two levels of traditional classics education, such as mandatory elective course (n=247) and voluntary study group learning the Analects (n=7) in University students with one semester period. They also recruited high school students (n=191) attending class for Chinese characters and classics for one semester. This lecture will discuss the rationale and results of their study.
Bio: Dr. Seung-Ryong Kim is a Professor of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese at Pusan National University. Dr. Kim received a B.A in Korean Language and Literature and a Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Poems from Korea University. His teaching and research focus on East-Asian classics and Korean poems in classical Chinese. Dr. Han Chae is a Medical Doctor of Korean medicine, and currently is a Professor of the School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University (Busan, Korea). He was a medical officer for three years at ROK Army Special Forces after completing his medical board. He was a researcher at the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, Korea), Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, OH), and visiting scholar at Toyama University (Toyama, Japan) and Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO).
Free and Open to the Public
This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
