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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I'm happy to report that a new issue of the <i>Seoul Journal of Korean Studies</i> has rolled off the press. And although we are no longer included in any of the hallowed Thomson-Reuters indices, I am convinced that the articles are more interesting and original than ever. Piece by piece they present important new research that considerable sharpens our understanding of well-known phenomena (the <i>sowon</i>, Choson envoys' records of trips to China) or contains virtually unknown facts (lay monk villages, the parentage of late Koryo kings, Korea's mineral richness). The contents of vol. 26, no. 2 (2013) is as follows:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Palatino;mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-fareast-language:
KO"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">The Elusive Path to Sagehood: Origins of the Confucian Academy System in
Korea<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Milan Hejtmanek<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US">“The Mystery of the Century:” Lay Buddhist Monk Villages (<i>Chaegas</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US">ŭ</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">ngch’on</span></i><span lang="EN-US">) near Korea’s
Northernmost Border, 1600s-1960s<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Kim Hwansoo<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US">Chengde and the Barbarians: Reading Ethnicity and Difference in Pak Chiw</span><span lang="EN-US">ŏ</span><span lang="EN-US">n’s <i>Y</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US">ŏ</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">rha ilgi</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL-BE"><font face="Times New Roman">Min
Eun Kyung<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:97.2pt"><span lang="NL-BE"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US">Deconstructing the Official <i>History
of Kory</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US">ŏ</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> in Late Chos</span><span lang="EN-US">ŏ</span><span lang="EN-US">n: The
Discovery of the <i>Un'gok sisa</i> and the
Refutation of the Theory that Sin Ton Sired Kings U and Ch’ang<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Jeong Hohun<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">More Valuable than Gold: Korean Tungsten and the
Japanese War Economy, 1910 to 1945<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Chad Denton</font><font face="Palatino"><o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p></div><div><br></div><div>The articles will soon be available to download on Project Muse. A limited number of hard copies is available; please write to seoul.journal@gmail.com if you would like a copy. For submission information and anything else related to the journal, please use the same mail address.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Sem Vermeersch<br>
Associate Director, <br>
International Center for Korean Studies<br>
Seoul National University<br>
599 Gwanangno, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742<br>
Tel. +82-2-880-4038<br><br><style><!--
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