The European Program for the Exchange of Lecturers (EPEL) is a program sponsored by the Korea Foundation and administered by the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE).

This program is responsible for sponsoring researchers specializing in Korean studies, encouraging their participation in conferences and increasing the exchange of research and teaching ideas among European scholars. Thus the aim of the EPEL Projects is to stimulate and coordinate Korean academic studies in all European countries and to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge of Korea to a wider public.