Dr Judith Cherry
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MBE, BA (Durham), MA, PhD (Sheffield) |
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ProfileGraham Healey and Judith Cherry established Korean Studies at Sheffield in 1980 and, over the past 30 years, Judith has taught Korean language, history and business at Sheffield, with a career break in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, when she worked for US investment bank Salomon Brothers and ran her own consultancy company, Korea Business Services. Returning to Sheffield University in 1994, Judith was awarded a PhD and became a full-time member of staff at the School of East Asian Studies in 2001. In 1997, Judith was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her service to the UK government in promoting exports to Korea. TeachingFoundation in Korean Language (EAS101/102) Teaching PhilosophyI am passionate about Korea and my research interests, and I aim to communicate that passion and enthusiasm through my teaching, incorporating the experiences I have gained during 30 years of living and working in Korea. I believe that students learn best when fully engaged with the topics and materials they are studying, and I encourage active student participation in my language classes and lectures, as well as in seminars. I invite guest speakers to talk to the students in two of my modules, including Korean War Veterans in the History of Korea module and the director of one of the films shown in the Contemporary Korean Society module, to enable the students to interact with people closely involved in the topics we are discussing. In the society module, students who have returned from their Year Abroad in Korea also give a presentation on their experiences within the context of the module content. I aim to enhance my students’ critical and analytical skills through discussion and essay writing, and develop their public speaking skills through presentations to their peers. |
Current Research ProjectsThe new project will centre on a longitudinal study of the changes to the Korean business and investment environment and the removal of visible and invisible barriers to IFDI over a period of five years (2010-2015). Its principal objectives are to explore further the challenges created by ‘mismatched globalization’, to monitor efforts to address the ‘software’ problems highlighted by European investors and, by so doing, to inform both EU policy on the promotion of direct investment in Korea and the decision-making process of existing and potential European investors. |
Research SupervisionDr Cherry encourages applications from students wishing to study foreign direct investment or globalization, with specific reference to Korea. |
Publications‘How to promote a Free Trade Agreement: UK Trade & Investment and the EU-Korea FTA’. Forthcoming in 2012.‘Seoul searching: The 2010 G20 Seoul Summit’ (with Hugo Dobson). Forthcoming in 2012. ‘Upgrading the ‘software’: The EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement and socio-cultural barriers to trade and investment’, (2011) Pacific Review Forthcoming in 2011/2012. ‘Making friends with the Hydra: European expectations of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement’, (2011) European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, 59-83. ‘International adjustment, met expectations and cultural novelty: The family dimension of promoting inward FDI in South Korea’. (2010), Asian Business and Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, 127-147. ‘Dismal leadership or macroeconomic fatigue? An analysis of the Kim Young-sam administration’s role in the 1997 economic crisis’, in South Korea: Challenging Globalisation and the Post-crisis Reforms (2008), edited by Kim Young-Chan et al. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. Foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea: European investors and ‘mismatched globalization’ (2007). Surrey: RoutledgeCurzon. ‘Changing perceptions of inward foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea’, in Korea 2007 - Politics, Economy, Society (2007), edited by Patrick Koellner et al. London: Brill. ‘Ch’amyǒjǒngbu, woegugin chikchǒpt’uja k’ǔn sǒngkkwa: Chejoǒp-poda sǒbisǔbumun sǒnhodo nop’ajyǒ’ [Great achievements for the Roh Moo-hyun government in inward foreign direct investment: A growing preference for the service sector over manufacturing]. Kuktchǒng Pǔrip’ing: Taehan Min’guk Chǒngch’aek P’ot’ǒl [Government Briefing: The Republic of Korea Government Policy Portal], 20 March 2007. ‘Korea’s remarkable achievement in foreign direct investment’, Feature Column, Dynamic-Korea.com, 21 March 2007 ‘Killing five birds with one stone: Inward foreign direct investment in post-crisis Korea’, Pacific Affairs, Spring 2006 Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 9-27. ‘Big Deal’ or big disappointment? : The continuing evolution of the South Korean developmental state’, Pacific Review, 2005, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 327-354. ‘Achievements in foreign direct investment’, in Two years of Roh Moo-hyun administration: Achievements and challenges (2005). Seoul: Korea Overseas Information Service. ‘Korean direct investment in the EU: Global Koreanisation’, in John A. Turner and Kim Young-chan Ed. (2004), Globalisation and Korean foreign investment. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. ‘The ‘Big Deals’ and Hynix Semiconductor: State-business relations in post-crisis Korea’, Asia Pacific Business Review (2003) 10 (2): 59-79. Korean multinationals in Europe (2001), London: Curzon. ‘The Korean view of European integration’ (1997) East Asia Research Centre Papers. Sheffield: University of Sheffield. Business Briefing Series: The Republic of Korea (1993), London: Cassell. |
