Through the lens of “Our Hagwon*”, students from Buffalo, Seoul, Busan, and Tokyo reimagine the impact of urban façades on the global city.

The University at Buffalo Asian Studies faculty has selected Jenny Nguyen as the Outstanding Senior for 2024. Jenny was selected from a highly competitive pool of nominees in the 2024 class. We are all very proud of everyone's accomplishments and dedication to their studies.  

It wasn’t until she discovered K-pop idol Kai that Stephanie Choi, a postdoctoral associate in UB’s Asia Research Institute, became a “true fan” of K-pop music. “Isn’t K-pop for teenagers?” she wondered about 10 years ago when her fellow graduate students at Wesleyan University raved about their favorite K-pop bands. Choi had enjoyed K-pop as an undergrad in South Korea, but her master’s program was focused on traditional Korean music. Her friends’ enthusiasm made her revisit K-pop, this time as an ethnomusicologist.

Fifty college-age youth from South Korea will visit UB this summer as part of a “youth ladder” program established last week by UB and Gyeonggi Province, the largest province in South Korea.

The Office of International Education launched the Asia Research Institute (ARI), a multidisciplinary hub and collaborative space for research and education about Asia and its diasporic communities, with an inaugural conference last month.