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Young Alumna Award
As a studio art major at Wesleyan, Hyun Mi Corin enjoyed the art building and professors and late starry nights spent in the studio preparing for the senior art show. Four years later, with a master’s degree in international policy studies and a certificate of nonproliferation studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, Hyun Mi worked as a full-time intern at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank in Washington, DC, where her expertise was Northeast Asian Security. She also researched foreign policy issues, including cooperative threat reduction in Russia, A.Q. Khan’s nuclear smuggling network, anti-American sentiment in South Korea, the U.S. / South Korean alliance, and U.S. Forces in Korea. Her work as a student studying art tools took a dramatic detour into studying combat ring weapons of mass destruction in the Korean peninsula. “I decided to become a lifetime artist instead of a professional artist,” she said of her change in career direction.
While in graduate school in Monterey, Hyun Mi worked as a graduate research assistant studying proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in North Korea and the South Korean missile and satellite development program for the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
In 2005 and 2006 Hyun Mi was Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute where she taught socioeconomic issues of Korea and Korean language to U.S. military personnel, preparing them for careers in U.S. military intelligence. She proudly states that 90% of her students successfully graduated with an associate’s degree. She also helped young soldiers develop individualized strategies for academic improvement on the U.S. government language proficiency test and served as a liaison between the military and students.
In the summer of 1999 she worked with officials on the International Olympic Committee in Seoul as their travel and information liaison. In July 2002, Hyun Mi served as an interpreter for the Foreign Ministry of Culture and Tourism (FMCT) in Seoul. As a freelance artist, journalist, and tutor in Kansas City, Missouri (2007-2009), Hyun Mi wrote news articles published in Korean publications on U.S. politics, foreign policy, and cultural topics.
Currently, Hyun Mi is on track to earn a second master’s degree adding greatly to her academic scope. She’ll receive her master of education degree in sociology and education in May 2011 from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Since July 2010, she has served as the Program Coordinator and Research Assistant for the Center of Korean Research at Columbia, where she designs and publishes a bi-yearly newsletter, assists in identifying grant opportunities, coordinates academic events including everything from brown bag discussions to major conferences, and hires and manages work-study students.
Hyun Mi has traveled in Japan, Philippines, Mexico, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Morocco, and Austria. She was the first exchange student to attend Wesleyan from Seoul’s Sookmyung Women's University.
For her work in the areas of research, international policy, nuclear non-proliferation, and international relations; for her commitment to improving security in the United States and in Korea; for her support of the US military; and for her educational and career resourcefulness that brilliantly models the versatility of a liberal arts education, the Wesleyan College Alumnae Association honors Hyun Mi Choi Corin, Class of 2001, with the Young Alumna Award. |
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