<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial>Dear Colleagues,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial>The Korean studies journal <EM>Acta Koreana</EM> has recently received the following books for review:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial>1. <STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Human Decency</SPAN></I></STRONG>. 1993 Gong Ji Young. 2006. Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, Kim Miza and Suzanne Crowder Han.
Jimoondang Publishing Company, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:City>. ISBN: 89-88095-92-8</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial>2. <STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Sky Nest</SPAN></I></STRONG>. 2006. Poems by Choi Jongyoll. Jimoondang International, Edison. ISBN: 1-931897-12-3</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"> 3. <STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The Dwarf</SPAN></I></STRONG>. Cho Se-Hu</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">i. Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. 2006. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hawai'i</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Press. ISBN-10: 0-8248-3101-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3101-1</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial> 4. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Korea</SPAN></I></STRONG></st1:country-region></st1:place><STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">'s Twentieth-Century Odyssey</SPAN></I></STRONG>. Michael E. Robinson. 2007. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hawai'i</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Press. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3174-5</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"> 5. <STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Comforting an Orphaned Nation</SPAN></I></STRONG>. Tobias Hu</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림">binette. 2006. Jimoondang, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:City>. ISBN: 89-88095-95-2</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial> 6. <STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Interrelated Issues in Korean, East Asian and World Literature</SPAN></I></STRONG>. by Cho Dong-il. 2006. Jimoondang, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seoul</st1:place></st1:City>. ISBN: 89-88095-98-7</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><o:p><FONT face=arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial> <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">7.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"> </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Cultivating Original Enlightenment</SPAN></I></STRONG> -<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wŏnhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-Sūtra (Kŭmgang Sammaegyŏng Non)</I>. Translated with an Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr. 2007. <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hawai'i</st1:PlaceName> Press, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:place></st1:City>. ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3076-2</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT
face=arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial>If you would be interested in reviewing one of these books for an upcoming issue of <EM>Acta Koreana</EM> (<EM>Acta </EM>11-1, 5 January, 2008 or <EM>Acta</EM> 11-2, 5 July, 2008), please contact the editors at <A href="mailto:editor@kmu.ac.kr">editor@kmu.ac.kr</A>. It would be helpful if when you write you could let us know your current academic status, affilliation, research field(s), and preferred mailing address. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=arial>Unfortunately, we are at present unable to offer any remuneration for this important work, but all reviewers will receive a complimentary copy of the issue of the
journal in which their book review appears in addition to the review copy of the book. After publication in <EM>Acta Koreana</EM>, most book reviews are subsequently also published on the Korean Studies Review website.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial>Best regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 굴림"><FONT face=Arial>Michael Finch</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR><div>Dr. Michael Finch</div> <div>Associate Editor, <EM>Acta
Koreana</EM> <BR>Associate Professor, Department of Korean Studies <BR>Keimyung University, 1000 Shindang-dong, <BR>Dalseo-gu, Taegu, 704-701, Korea<BR>Tel: 053-580-5316 <BR>Fax: 053-580-6026</div><p>
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