2025-2026 Webinars

Mar. 5, 7-8pm ET. The Silence of Bones with author June Hur. Calling all June Hur and Joseon history fans! Join us for this presentation on the 2020 Freeman Book Award honorable mention book. Register here.

Mar. 19, 7-8pm ET. Korean Education System with Prof. Jamie Moon. Register here.

Mar. 31, 7-8pm ET. History and Evolution of Korea Wave with Prof. Jamie Moon. Register here.

April 9, 7-8pm ET. My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser, with author Jamie Jo Huang. 2025 Freeman Book Award Young Adult/HS Winner. San Jose, 2008: Paul yearns to know more about the mother who abandoned his family, but she is the only topic no one discusses. Now’s he’s in Vietnam, feeling displaced and considered an outsider. Plus, a ghost is haunting him even though he doesn’t believe in ghosts. His cousin and the grandmother he’s never met before now keep telling him that he’ll get answers only if he’s willing to open his ears Vũng Tâu, 1975: Ngọc Lan is eleven when her family breaks apart: her brother is drafted into the army; her father leaves on the last helicopter to the US. She and her sister are sent from Vietnam on a harrowing journey by boat. Only Ngọc Lan will survive. But what is the American dream when you are haunted by the death of your sister, missing your homeland; seeing ghostly mermaid sightings; lost in an abusive marriage; struggling as a parent? Told in the alternating perspectives of Paul and Ngọc Lan, My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser is a haunting story about the intergenerational effects of war, estranged family bonds, and how a teenager discovers a new connection to a lost part of himself. Register here.

April 28, 7-8pm ET. From Joseon to Gen Z: Geographics and Generations of Korean Sound with Dr. Hilary Finchum-Sung. Register here.