MCF Korean language and civilization (Odyssey: 260850; Sections CNU: 7, 15)

Application period, from March 3, 2026 10am (Paris time) to April 3, 2026 4pm (Paris time).
Selection committee timetable:
Application review: May 13
Auditions: May 27
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Application to be submitted on Odyssée:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_recrut…

Teaching

Training concerned: 
Licence LLCER Coréen, Master LLCER Études coréennes, Master LLCER Didactique du coréen

The MCF recruited will have an excellent command of Korean and will take part in teaching Korean language and civilization at bachelor's and master's levels. He or she will be able to give courses on themes and lexicons, as well as courses based on authentic Korean texts, whether from literature, the press or research in the humanities and social sciences. He/she will also teach courses on Korea in French, in the discipline in which he/she specializes, such as linguistics, literature, geography, history, sociology, etc.
The recruited MCF will also be expected to contribute to the development of pedagogical tools, particularly digital ones, as part of the development of the establishment's hybrid or distance teaching offer. Competence in ICTE and reflection on digital pedagogy is desirable.

He or She may, depending on his/her specialist discipline, provide part of his/her service in cross-disciplinary teaching within his/her department or across the establishment at bachelor and master levels.
He or She is likely to be involved in pedagogical and methodological support for students and to provide teaching in English.

Teaching department
Place of employment: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
Department director: CHA Yejin
Department director email: View e-mail 
Department URL: https://www.inalco.fr/etudes-coreennes

Research

The MCF recruited will consider the convergence between his/her work and Inalco's intellectual and scientific identity, as embodied in the collective projects carried out by the establishment and its research units. Depending on his or her specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join the research unit of his or her choice from among Inalco's own teams and UMRs under the (co)supervision of Inalco, in particular: CERLOM, CRLAO, IFRAE, PLIDAM


Laboratory of attachment : CERLOM (EA4124)
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: Stéphane Sawas
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://www.inalco.fr/cerlom

The research work of the recruited candidate will focus on Korean literature and/or culture, and will require the processing of sources in the Korean language. It may be based on one of the following themes: 1/ Editing, translating, teaching world literature and oral traditions; 2/ Comparative history of poetics; 3/ Migrant words, migrant writings; 4/ Audiovisual creation and world societies.


Laboratoire de rattachement : 
Le Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO UMR 8563 CNRS-INALCO-EHESS)

Location : Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director : M. Huy-Linh DAO
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://crlao.cnrs.fr

The Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale is seeking to advertise a position for a Senior Lecturer in Korean Language and Civilization. This position aligns with the profile sought by INALCO's Korean Studies department. In line with HCERES recommendations, this new position will strengthen and develop research in Korean linguistics within CRLAO, while improving doctoral supervision in this field. Depending on the specific features of his/her field of study and research themes, the successful candidate may choose to participate in one or more of the following CRLAO research areas:
1/ Diversity and diversification of East Asian and Southeast Asian languages
2/ Syntax and semantics of contemporary East Asian languages: formal and experimental approaches
3/ Chinese language and writing: emergence, evolution and diffusion


Laboratory of affiliation: Institut français de recherches sur l'Asie de l'est
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: Bernard Thomann
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://ifrae.cnrs.fr/


Laboratory of affiliation: 
Plurality of Languages and Identities: Didactics - Acquisition - Mediations (EA 4514) 
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: Thomas Szende 
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://www.inalco.fr/plidam

The recruited MCF will be able to join the EA 4514 PLIDAM host team currently organized around 6 axes, through largely internationalized networks: Axis 1) Language policies, plurilingualism and representations; Axis 2) Language competence: construction and evaluation; Axis 3) Lexicon and translation; Axis 4) Literature and culture in language didactics; Axis 5) Designing pedagogical tools from a plurilingual perspective and Axis 6) SemioMed - Semiotics, multimedia corpora and uses.

PLIDAM is building cooperative projects with numerous French and foreign research teams, notably in the pedagogy of foreign languages, literatures and cultures (cf. academic links and recent international colloquium with Seoul National University). 
The teaching and learning of Korean is of great interest to the didactic field: (linguistic isolation, agglutination, dialectal varieties, forms of politeness, constant adjustment of forms to the enunciation situation, unique writing system, etc.). What's more, Korean as a foreign language is arousing particularly keen interest and is now spreading worldwide. 
The recruited MCF will be invited to get involved in the laboratory's collective work, which requires proven pedagogical experience and reflection on the transmission of Korean to a French-speaking audience.


The position for which you are applying is likely to be located in a "restricted area" as defined in article R. 413-5-1 of the penal code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment can only take place after access authorization has been issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree n°84-431 of June 6 1984.

Reference: Decree of 6 February 2023 on the general procedures governing transfers, secondments, and competitive recruitment of Maîtres de conférences, University Professors, and Junior Professor Chairs.