About

Dr Vyjayanti Raghavan is Professor at the Centre for Korean Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has a Master’s degree in Korean History from Seoul National University and a PhD from the Department of Disarmament, School of International Studies, JNU. She has been teaching Korean language and culture at JNU since 2000. She has co-authored and edited many books and contributed a number of articles to journals and newspapers.


Awards & Honours

Awarded by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Mr. Hwang Gyo-ahn, for her contribution to the development of Hangeul, on 9th October 2015.

Received a Plaque from the Andaman & Nicobar Police in recognition of services rendered towards national security, in the year 2009 


International Collaboration/Consultancy

  • Member of the Korea Foundation Assembly for their forthcoming international meeting in July 2011.
  • Collaboration with Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, for conducting one-semester courses in Hindi and Indian Culture for their students.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Asia Conference of Korean Studies.

Publications

P.R. Chari & Vyjayanti Raghavan, “Sino-Indian and Sino-South Korean Relations: Compulsions, Comparisons and Contrasts”, 2018

Vyjayanti Raghavan & R. Mahalakshmi, “Colonisation: A Comparative Study of India and Korea”, 2015

P.R. Chari & Vyjayanti Raghavan, “Comparative Security Dynamics in North East Asia and South Asia”, 2010

Vyjayanti Raghavan, “China’s Rise and the Korean Peninsula” in Srikanth Kondapalli & Emi Mifune (Ed.), China and its Neighbours, 2010

Vyjayanti Raghavan (Ed.), “India And Korea Through The Ages: Historical, Religious And Cultural Perspectives”, 2009

Vyjayanti Raghavan, “Security in Northeast Asia: Alternative Scenarios” in Chandra Chari (ed.), War, Peace and World Hegemony in the Twenty-first Century: Changing Balance of Power in a Globalised World, 2007