Dr. Byung-jin Lim, Associate Faculty Associate of Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature has been selected by the Academy of Korean Studies as a winner of the 2009-2010 Korean Studies Grant competition.
Dr. Lim received the grant for his research project "Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence and Linguistic Competence: Telecollaboration in the Korean Language Program at UW-Madison."
Telecollaboration involves interpersonal exchanges between foreign language students and native speakers of the target culture through the use of Internet communication tools.