Grants

Year Projects Organization Amount
2024-2028
AKS seed program for Korean Studies, “Developing research and teaching environments in Korean Studies” (Project director: Jooyeon Rhee, Co-researchers: Jungwoo Ryoo, Inkyu Kang, Sooyong Byun, Lan Kim, & Na-young Ryu)
The Academy of Korean Studies
₩166,000,000 KRW
2024-2025
Teaching faculty development fund
The College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University
$750 USD
2024-2025
AKS Korean Studies grant, “Exploring learner and educator perceptions of AI chatbots as language-learning partners: A focus on spoken Korean practice”
The Academy of Korean Studies
$12,150 USD
2021-2022
AKS Korean Studies grant, "Investigating the impact of audiovisual perceptual training on the acquisition of Korean sounds by second language learners"
The Academy of Korean Studies
$8,000 USD
2020-2025
SSHRC insight grant, “Speech rate variation and sound change: From today’s variation to tomorrow’s innovation” (Principle Investigator: Yoonjung Kang, Co-collaborators: Manami Hirayama, Suyeon Yun, Na-Young Ryu)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
$165,059 CAD
2020-2023
AKS seed program for Korean Studies, “The promotion of research and education in Korean studies at the Pennsylvania State University” (Project director: Jooyeon Rhee, Co-researchers: Susan Strauss, Lan Kim, Inkyu Kang, Na-young Ryu)
The Academy of Korean Studies
₩159,000,000 KRW
2020
LCTL grant for less commonly taught language pedagogical workshop
The Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University
$1,000 USD
2016-2019
SSHRC institutional grant for experiment participants and conference travel costs
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
$2,770 CAD
2017
AKS Korean Studies grant, “Acquisition of Korean vowels and nasal codas by Mandarin and English learners of Korean”
The Academy of Korean Studies
$5,100 USD

Awards & Fellowships

Year Projects Organization Amount
2021
지능형 교육지원 시스템 개발을 위한 교과별 데이터 정의 및 분석 방안 연구
AI-Based Education Research Center, Seoul National University
₩2,000,000 KRW
2021
AKS fellowship, “Comparison of audiovisual and auditory-only perceptual training on the perception and production of Korean sounds by second language learners of Korean"
The Academy of Korean Studies
₩6,000,000 KRW & Round-trip flight
2019
CSK conference travel support award
Center for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto
$500 CAD
2019
IPA student paper award, “Web-based high variability phonetic training on L2 coda identification”
International Phonetic Association
£600 GBP
2018-2019
SSHRC doctoral award, “L1 background and the role of universals in L2 acquisition”
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
$20,000 CAD
2018
AATK excellent student paper award, “Effects of L1 transfer and L2 experience on perception of Korean vowels”
American Association of Teachers of Korean
$20,000 CAD
2018
B. Elan Dresher PhD scholarship
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
$4,000 CAD
2017
AATK graduate student travel award
American Association of Teachers of Korean
$500 USD
2014-2018
Four year doctoral fellowship
Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
$68,000 CAD
2011
Graduate research award
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
₩500,000 KRW
2010-2012
Doctoral fellowship
Korean APRO Financial Foundation
₩20,000,000 KRW
2009-2010
Humanities graduate research fellowship
National Research Foundation of Korea
₩10,000,000 KRW
2008-2009
Graduate fellowship
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
₩1,500,000 KRW