Sponsored by the Korea Program and the Center for East Asian Studies, the Korean Studies Writing Prize 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 Lokshin, coterminal student in East Asian studies, has won the 3rd Annual Korean Studies Writing Prize with his paper titled "Speech levels in DPRK society." Benjamin completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford in linguistics, and will continue on this fall to complete his MA in East Asian Studies.