Sponsored by the Korea Program and the Center for East Asian Studies, the Korean Studies Program Prize for Writing in Korean Studies recognizes and rewards outstanding examples of writing by Stanford students in an essay, term paper or thesis produced during the current academic year in any discipline within the area of Korean studies, broadly defined. The competition is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. 

Benjamin Pham has won the 4th Annual Korean Studies Writing Prize for his paper titled "How and why did South Korea transition to an economic model of export-led industrialization?" Benjamin, a junior, will complete his undergraduate degree at Stanford in political science in spring 2016.

For more details about the prize, please visit the Center for East Asian Studies.