Unlike Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria\u2014which became satellite countries of the Soviet Union after the Second World War\u2014Yugoslavia maintained its own communist economic and social system as it neither belonged to the United States nor to the Soviet Union. Unlike the earlier introduction of \u201cNorth Korean Studies\u201d by the other communist countries, Yugoslavia opened departments of \u201cIndology,\u201d \u201cSinology,\u201d and \u201cJapanology,\u201d recognizing them as representatives of Asian Studies rather than \u201cNorth Korean Studies.\u201d Asian Studies in Yugoslavia, which disbanded into six countries after the 1990s, was distinct in each of the republics. In the Republic of Serbia, for example, \u201cSinology\u201d was representative of Asian Studies, while in the Republic of Croatia it was \u201cIndology,\u201d and in the Republic of Slovenia it was \u201cJapanology.\u201d The present study examines the characteristics and backgrounds of \u201cSinology\u201d at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, \u201cIndology\u201d at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and \u201cJapanology\u201d and the newly- formed \u201cKorean Studies\u201d (in 2015) at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Moreover, it describes the role of Korean government agencies and local universities and scholars in establishing Korean Studies in foreign universities. This study asserts that in order to establish Korean Studies in a foreign university, that university and its scholars must be actively involved, essentially leading the process, while Korean and local government agencies should assume the role of facilitator. This paper has been developed on the basis of \u201cThe Current Status of Korean Studies in Slovenia\u201d which was published in the 2016 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies.1 However, because of its importance in relation to the establishment of a Korean Studies program in Split, it is being reprinted here with a new focus on \u201cAsian Studies in Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia: Strategies for the Development of Korean Studies at the University of Split.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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