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Mark Peterson to give BYU devotional March 8

Mark Peterson, a professor of Asian and Near Eastern languages at Brigham Young University, will speak at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 8, in the Marriott Center for a campuswide devotional.

Live broadcasts of the devotional will be available on KBYU-TV (Channel 11), BYU-Television, KBYU-FM (89.1), BYU-Radio and byubroadcasting.org, as well as on campus in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium and the Varsity Theater in the Wilkinson Student Center. Rebroadcast information is available at www.byubroadcasting.org.

The chair of the Korean Studies Committee and a member of the Association for Asian Studies, Peterson also serves as the head of the Korean section in the Department of Asian Studies and Anthropology.

He is a member of the International Association for Korean Language Education, the International Korean Literature Association, the Royal Asiatic Society and the American Association of Korean Teachers.

Before coming to BYU, Peterson directed the Fulbright program in Korea from 1978 to 1984. At BYU, he has coordinated the Asian Studies Program and directed the undergraduate program in the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.

For information or questions, please call Mark Peterson at (801)422-7672, mark_peterson@byu.edu.

Writer: Devin Knighton

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