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Registration for the 2025 Association for Korean Studies in Europe conference is now open. The conference will be held in person, in Edinburgh, UK, June 19-22, and will host 160 papers from colleagues across Europe and beyond.

Non-presenting guests are welcome to attend the conference. However, please be aware that Edinburgh can be very busy in the summer. If you wish to attend the conference and stay at the conference accommodation, we encourage guests to register early to guarantee a room.

For more information on how to register for the conference, see above.

General information

The University of Edinburgh will host the 32nd biennial AKSE Conference as an in-person event from 19 (Thursday) to 22 (Sunday) June 2025 in Edinburgh, UK. The conference is co-organized by the University of Edinburgh with the AKSE Council. The Association for Korean Studies in Europe, founded in 1977, is the main scholarly society for Korean Studies in Europe. Its objectives are to stimulate and coordinate academic Korean Studies in all countries of Europe, and to contribute to the spread of knowledge of Korea among a wider public.

The biennial AKSE conferences provide an opportunity for European scholars of Korean Studies to gather and exchange research. The conferences host the AKSE membership meeting, making this the most important event of the association as such. AKSE conferences are also a way for European scholars to communicate with the global academic community. We thus warmly welcome non‐members and scholars from outside Europe.