Mózes Csoma

Mózes Csoma (in Korean: 초머 모세, in Hungarian with family name – first name order: Csoma Mózes; May 11, 1978 –) is a Hungarian Koreanist scholar, researcher of Korean history and political affairs of the Korean Peninsula, associate professor with a habitation degree and a senior research fellow. From 2008, he was the professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) , in Budapest, responsible for establishing and managing the first ever Korean Department in Hungary. From February 2018, he serves as a senior research fellow at the National University of Public Service (NKE) in Budapest. Beginning with September 2018, he serves as the ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of Korea.

Education

Mózes Csoma studied at Móricz Zsigmond High School in Budapest. In 1996, he was one of the winners of the National Secondary School Academic Competition (OKTV); therefore, he was granted the opportunity to start his studies at ELTE University without taking an entrance exam.[1] Between 1996 and 2002, he studied history and political studies at ELTE, and attended Korean studies courses at the College for Foreign Trade (now Budapest Business School). In 2001, he won the second prize of the Országos Tudományos Diákköri Konferencia (OTDK) , national scholarly competition, for university students with his thesis written about the political circumstances on the Korean Peninsula. He studied Korean language at Yonsei University in Seoul, receiving the fellowship of the Korea Foundation in 2000 and 2004-2005. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 at Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University (now known as NKE) University in Budapest. His doctoral dissertation was written about the internal political affairs of the Korean Peninsula. He conducted field researches in South Korea in 2009, 2014 and 2016.

Scholarly activity

From 2006, he started holding lectures at Corvinus University in Budapest. The title of his history lecture was ’Korea: One nation, two states’. From 2007, he worked at ELTE University, and in 2008 he was nominated to the position of assistant professor. He was responsible for establishing and managing the country’s first ever Korean Department.[2] He received his habilitation degree in 2010, and was nominated to the position of associate professor in 2013. He prepared and planned the Korean Studies BA program in 2008, and after receiving its accreditation, he devised the Koreanology MA program and received its accreditation in 2012. He also planned the Koreanology Ph.D. program in 2017. From February 2018, he serves as a senior research fellow at the NKE in Budapest. The field of his research is Korean history, the differences between the South Korean and North Korean point of view on the common history, and the history of the Hungarian-Korean relations. He frequently gave lectures at international conferences, and published several books about his researches. He is often invited to Hungarian television and radio programs to comment on the developments in the Korean Peninsula.

Published books

in Hungary
  • Korea. Egy nemzet, két ország (Korea. One nation, two states; Budapest, 2008)
  • Magyarok Koreában (Hungarians in Korea; Budapest, 2009)
  • Koreai csaták és harcosok (Korean battles and warriors; Budapest, 2011)
  • Koreaiak Magyarországon az 1950-es években (Koreans in Hungary in the 1950s; Budapest, 2012)
  • Korea. Egy nemzet, két ország – a közös gyökerektől (Korea. One nation, two states – from the common roots; Budapest, 2013)
  • 1989. Diszkózene a Kvangbok sugárúton – Észak-Korea a rendszerváltozások évében (1989. Disco music on the Kwangbok street. North Korea in the years of the Eastern European political changes; Budapest, 2014)
  • Sövény Aladár, a hazai koreanisztika úttörője (Aladár Sövény, the pioneer scholar of the Hungarian Koreanology; Budapest, 2015)
  • Magyarország és Korea 1956-ban. Az Uralban találkozunk! (Korea and Hungary in 1956. We will meet in the Ural Mountain!; Budapest, 2016)
  • Korea története. A két koreai állam történelemszemléletének összehasonlításával (History of Korea. With the comparison of the South Korean and North Korean official points of view on history; Budapest, 2018)
in South Korea
  • 한반도를 방문한 헝가리인들의 기억 비망록. (Memorandum – the Hungarians who visited the Korean Peninsula; Seoul, 2009)
  • 헝가리 부다페스트로! 1956년 헝가리 혁명과 북한 유학생들. (To Hungary, Budapest! The Hungarian revolution in 1956 and the North Korean students; Seoul, 2013)
  • 헝가리 최초의 한국학 학자 북한을 만나다. 쇠베니 얼러다르의 1950년대 북한 문화에 관한 기억. (The first Hungarian Koreanist scholar meets North Korea. Aladár Sövény’s observations about the North Korean culture in the 1950s; Seoul, 2015)
  • From North Korea to Budapest. North Korean students in the Hungarian revolution in 1956. (Seoul and Edison, 2016)

Membership

  • Association of Korean Studies in Europe
  • Society of Korean Language and Literature (Seoul)
  • Editorial board of ’The Korean History Education Review’ (역사교육)
  • The Association for Korean Modern and Contemporary History (Seoul)

Awards

  • Awarded by the South Korean minister of culture for promoting the Korean culture in Hungary (2016)[3]
  • Awarded by the South Korean Dankook University for developing the international scholarly cooperation (2016)[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Történelem OKTV helyezettek 1994-2010" (in Hungarian). Történelemtanítás. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  2. ↑ "Mozes Csoma(초머 모세)". Cefia. Retrieved 2017-12-11.
  3. ↑ "Csoma Mózest kitüntette a Koreai Köztársaság kulturális minisztere" (in Hungarian). ELTE. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
  4. ↑ "1956년 헝가리혁명 60주년 기념 특별세미나 개최" (in Korean). DANKOOK UNIVERSITY. 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2016-07-24.
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