{"id":9998,"date":"2010-11-02T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9998"},"modified":"2015-05-28T04:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T04:29:48","slug":"malay-studies-chair-to-be-set-up-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/malay-studies-chair-to-be-set-up-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Malay Studies Chair to be set up in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Fmalay-studies-chair-to-be-set-up-in-korea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9998&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/qursi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TUESDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2010 17:08<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 2 Nov. \u00a02010 \u2013 A chair for Malay Studies is to be set up later this month at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. It will be an upgrading of\u00a0 the Department of Malay Studies which is currently a part of the Indonesian Studies Department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nFormer Deputy Dean (Students and International Relations) Faculty of Social Science and Humanities UKM, Professor Dr Zaharani Ahmad, 54, has been appointed to the Chair for two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMalay Studies Chairs have already been established in a number of other universities in the United States of America, China, Holland and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe setting up of the chair will enable students and the people of South Korea to learn and understand Malay language, literature and culture better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Zaharani said it would be a challenging assignment but was ready for it based on his experience in teaching Malay. He was formerly a Malay language teacher before joining UKM as a tutor at the Linguistics Department in 1985.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWhile at Hankuk University, he will give lectures on Malay Studies covering the language, linguistics, literature, history, geography, politics,economics, culture while also touching on Malaysia itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe will also carry out research on all the subjects and collect materials on Malay Studies while also helping to prepare students to carry out research projects on Malaysia and give talks, organise seminars besides helping the university to strengthen its Malay Studies programmes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHis other task is to help further strengthening understanding and co-operation between Malaysia and Korea through seminars, conferences, talks, exchanges of information, teaching staffs and students from institutions of higher learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cI will help to develop and organise the Malay Studies Programme in Korea which normally takes in about 60 students including 20 post graduates while also asessing and if needed revising and improving the current programme at Hankuk University,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe said that Indonesian literature and language was already available in Korean not only because some South Koreans had studied in Indonesia but many Indonesians have also made Seoul their home including a lecturer who had lived there for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBefore leaving for Seoul, Prof \u00a0Zaharani will undergoes a crash course in basic Korean language for one semester. He plans to bring with him books on Malay culture and language published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWhile there, Prof Dr Zahrani will also be indirectly involved in \u2018selling\u2019 Malaysia to Koreans by promoting the country\u2019s tourists attractions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Dr Zahrani obtained his Bachelor\u2019s degree (First Class Honours in Malay Language) from the University of Malaya in 1983 before getting his Master\u2019s from University of Hawaii at Manoa, in 1988. Prof Zahrani got his PhD (Linguistics ) from the University of Essex in 1998.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2010 17:08 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 2 Nov. \u00a02010 \u2013 A chair<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/malay-studies-chair-to-be-set-up-in-korea\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9999,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9998","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9998\/revisions\/10000"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}