Associate Professor Wooksoo Kim Named Brain Korea Global Visiting Fellow

Associate Professor Wooksoo Kim, Director of Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute. has been named a Brain Korea Global Visiting Fellow at Seoul National University (SNU) College of Nursing. Kim will spend two months conducting collaborative research while hosting seminars with faculty and graduate students from SNU.

“During the COVID pandemic, we all had to work through many obstacles for teaching and researching,” Kim said. “I found new ways of becoming virtually connected and engaging with international scholars at a distance. As a result, I was invited in February 2021 to present a series of virtual workshops on program evaluation in Korea. That experience led to this exciting opportunity.”

According to Kyung-Sook Bang, Professor and Chair, Center for Human-Caring Nurse Leaders for the Future by BK21 FOUR project, College of Nursing, SNU, Kim was selected for her “extensive knowledge and experience with community-based participatory research, particularly with immigrants and refugee populations, which will help to transform and expand nursing research in Korea.”

“I must say this is an exciting opportunity for me. The wonderful thing about this fellowship is that it allows me to be creative and innovative in how I infuse social work principles and priorities in interdisciplinary spaces,” Kim continued. “I look forward to collaborating with a diverse number of faculty and providing consultation to their current projects with multicultural families in South Korea.”

The Center, established by the Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities & Students (BK21 FOUR), is a human resource development program initiated by the Korean government. The objective of BK21 FOUR is to produce the next generation of world-class leaders in these fields by upgrading research infrastructure. This program is designed to foster new knowledge and skills based on creativity through international and interdisciplinary collaboration.