CODING KOREA: INTEGRATING DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTO KOREAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

This article presents the design and implementation of Digital Korean Studies (DKS) in the Korean Studies department at the University of Vienna, illustrating how digital humanities methods are integrated with the usual curriculum that teaches Korean language, culture, and history to transform both teaching and scholarship. It traces the department’s evolution from a traditional Korean Studies program into a modern, scaffolded curriculum that now also includes transferable digital competencies through teaching Digital Humanities methods that are adapted to Korean Studies students’ interests. The BA curriculum has added Digital Korean Studies courses that introduce the basics of Digital Humanities approaches and methodologies and let’s students absorb this through various hands-on and project-based assignments. The MA curriculum introduces more advanced tools and theoretical grounding, especially in the realm of textual analytics and social network analysis.