東洋學硏究院 50년의 성과와 과제

Abstract

The Academy of Asian Studies succeeds the Institute of Oriental Studies which was founded in September 28, 1970. The Institute of Oriental Studies was reorganized into the Academy of Asian Studies in September 2011 and is now continuing. This year is the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Academy of Asian Studies. This paper traces back the Academy’s 50-year activities and achievements, and suggests tasks for the future developments. The greatest accomplishment of the Academy is the completion of the Dictionary of Korean-Chinese Characters and the Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary. At the end of the 30 some years of efforts, the Academy completed the compilation of the Dictionary of Korean-Chinese Characters and the Great Chinese-Korean Dictionary. After the completion of these dictionaries, the Academy is planning to continuously compile dictionaries, such as the Yidu Dictionary and the Korean-origin Chinese Character Dictionary, which the academic world requires. The Academy has contributed to oriental studies’ developments by publishing the Oriental Studies that is a journal listed in the Korea Citation Index, hosting annually the Academic Conference for Asian Studies, publishing “Asian Studies Series”, and so on. For the future, the Academy should contribute to academic advancements by consistently publishing the Oriental Studies and “Asian Studies Series”, and continuously hosting the academically highly valuable Academic Conference for Asian Studies. The Academy under itself has Institute of History & Culture, Institute of East Asian Traditional Culture, and Institute of East Asian Interchanges as its subsidiary institutes. The Academy should search for the methodologies to invigorate its subsidiary institutes which are the bases of the academy system. The Academy of Asian Studies renewedly professed for Asian studies within its systemic reorganization. The Academy should establish its research areas and goals as much as it professes Asian studies. Also, the expansion of researcher pool and the budget support are necessary to back it up. In order to expand and reinvigorate research activities, stabler budget should be supported. Currently, the Humanities including Asian studies goes through the era pursuing usefulness and economic feasibility. In such a circumstance, it is predictable that the Academy of Asian Studies shall face a lot of difficulties in its future. I hope that the Academy of Asian Studies will make remarkable progress so that it can become a central institution for Asian studies at home and abroad beyond Dankook University’s central research institute around the time of the next 60th or 70th anniversary.