<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium">Dear list members, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><br></font></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3">We are pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2013 issue </font></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium">(vol. 53, no. 1) </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium">of the</span><i style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium"> Korea Journal.</i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium">This issue </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">features a</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:medium">rticles
covering various topics in the field of Korean Studies, selected from
submissions through a rigorous peer review process. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The
first article by Yi Sang Il addresses the relationship between poverty, health
needs, and the provision of health care in South Korea, based on Hart’s inverse
care law. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">The
second article by Soon-yang Kim attempts to uncover the Confucian foundation of
public sector welfare in the kingdom era of East Asia’s history and to discuss
the unlikelihood of realizing Confucian idealism in a pre-industrial country
that was experiencing cycles of poverty and natural disasters. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">By
comparing headlines in South Korean newspaper</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chosun Ilbo</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">and the American newspaper</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
New York Times</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">the third
article by Han Jiyoung and Lee Gunho argues that the accuracy of direct
quotations should be analyzed with three foci: the exactness of the quotation,
the validity of the attribution, and the legitimacy of the emphasis. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Park
Heonho’s article explores the trends of Japanese colonial censorship and the
intellectual and cultural landscape of colonial Korea by analyzing the five
types of statistical data compiled in the </span><i style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Chosen
shuppan keisatsu geppo</i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> (Publication Police Monthly of Joseon). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The
fifth article, by Huajeong Seok, examines </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">how the international rivalries over Korea were represented in political cartoons
published between 1876 and 1898. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">In the next article, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Choe Keysook explores
how funeral oration legitimized the act of weeping for male scholar-officials
of Joseon and shows how gender was a key element in understanding the way
emotional expressiveness was accommodated, represented, and articulated in the
Confucian norm. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Finally,
the last article by Oh Mi-il approaches the topic of hill villages from a
historical perspective, illustrating the symbolic landscape and space of Busan. With a focus on spatial production and arrangement, Oh attempts to account
for the socioeconomic relations of the colonial city.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This
issue also carries a book review on John Rennie Short’s <i>Korea: A Cartographic History</i>, one of the recent publications
covering the changes of Korea’s maps from the Joseon period (1392-1910) to post-World
War II. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
contents of this issue are as follows:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:16pt"><br></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">YI
Sang Il / Investigating the Space of Poverty and Health Care: Poverty,
Mortality and the Inverse Care Law in Seoul</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Soon-yang
KIM / Uncovering the Confucian Foundation of Public Sector Welfare in Joseon</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">HAN
Jiyoung and LEE Gunho / A Comparative Study of the Accuracy of
Quotation-Embedded Headlines in <i>Chosun
Ilbo</i> and <i>The New York Times</i> from
1989 to 2009</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PARK
Heonho / Patterns of Censorship in Colonial Korea as Seen through the
Statistics of the <i>Chosen shuppan keisatsu
geppo</i> (Publication Police Monthly of Joseon)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Huajeong
SEOK / Power Rivalries Regarding Korea as Reflected in Political Cartoons</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CHOE
Keysook / A Weeping Man and the Mourning Ritual: Literati Writing and the
Rhetoric of Funeral Oration in Eighteenth-Century Joseon</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">OH
Mi-il / The Spatial Arrangement and Residential Space of a Colonial City: The
Spatio-temporality of Hill Villages in Busan </span></p>

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REVIEW</span></p>

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Lok-yin Law / <i>Korea: A Cartographic
History</i> (by John Rennie Short) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.0pt;word-break:keep-all"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>


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