This paper aims to analyze the development of Korean studies in the Latin American region between the 1960s and the 2010s, taking as representative countries Mexico in North America, and Chile and Argentina in South America. Korean studies shall be understood as those academic activities of the different disciplines of social sciences and humanities (history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, religion, etc.) within East Asian studies that have as their object of study the Korean peninsula as well as the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), encompassing not only internal and external aspects, but also relations between both countries. Now, in fact there is a sharp concentration of them in South Korea, for several reasons ranging from the economic support that this country provides to the promotion of Korean studies to the important presence of communities of South Koreans in Latin America, hence the specific attention that will be paid to this country in relation to Korean Studies.Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales