
Korean Studies Program
Department of Asian Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Irina (Ira) Lyan
TEACHING
Travelling Seminars in Seoul
Korean Religions (2025)
Korean Music (2023)
Korea Times: "Hebrew University students travel to Korea to explore musical landscape"
Courses
K-Food for Thought
Korean Economic Miracle
Global Korea
Korean Cultural Indistries
Samsung, LG and other Chaebols
Introduction to Modern and Pre-modern Korea
Gender and Sexuality in Korean Film and Literature
Asia in International Arena
Forum of East Asian Economies
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Organizations


SPECIAL TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES
Guest-lecture on Korean global management at the MBA Program, Tel Aviv University
The Ateneo Korean Studies Global Classroom, Ateneo De Manila University
Summer School, Principles of Cultural Dynamics, Freie Universität Berlin
Workshop on Korean economy at Samsung Israel
Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi course on Asian histories, societies and cultures
Workshop on Korean economy at the International MBA, Haifa University
SUPERVISION
Marat Galimov, PhD candidate, China, Japan, and South Korea's animation-centered commercials in the late 20th - early 21st centuries (together with Nissim Otmazgin)
Seung Eun Chung, PhD candidate, Between Prophecy and Partnership: Korean Christian Support for Israel as a Transnational Religious Flow
Leah Rabinovitch, MA student, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Populism in South Korea" (together with Daniel Wajner, completed July 2026)