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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The Center for Korean Research at Columbia University is pleased to announce the publication of the <i>Journal of Korean Studies</i> special themed October 2018 issue, volume 23, no.2. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Guest edited by Dafna Zur (Stanford University) and Christopher P. Hanscom (University of California, Los Angeles), the fall 2018 thematic issue, “Science and Literature in North and South Korea,” offers a groundbreaking framework for approaching the multilayered relations between literature and science both in Korea and in other sites. Paying particular attention to the ways in which literature and science share a linguistic medium, the nine articles that comprise this special issue show how literature and science interconnect as modes of understanding and perceiving the modern world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The articles are available online through read.dukeupress.edu and Project MUSE, including for individuals not affiliated with a subscribing institution. The abstracts for the current issue are available at </span><a href="http://jks.weai.columbia.edu/volumes/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none'>jks</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC'>.weai.columbia.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The<i> Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) </i>publishes articles in all disciplines and across all time periods, both historical and contemporary. The <i>JKS</i> is committed to articles that engage with a Korea-related topic in a substantial way, take existing scholarship (in Korean and/or other languages) into account, and explore new methodologies and theoretical frameworks that speak to readerships beyond Korean studies. We encourage transnational, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>JKS welcomes submissions year round for publication in the spring issue. For more information, please visit </span><a href="http://jks.weai.columbia.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC;text-decoration:none'>jks</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC'>.weai.columbia.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'> and </span><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC'>https://www.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The Journal of Korean Studies</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>, October 2018, Volume 23, No.2<br>Thematic Issue: Science and Literature in North and South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Editor’s Note<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Guest Editors’ Introduction<br>Chris Hanscom and Dafna Zur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Articles<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Literature and Science: The State of the Field in Korean Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Jongyon Hwang<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>As the Crow Flies: Yi Sang's Aerial Poetics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>John Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Fantasy, the Final Frontier: Making Science Moral in Postwar North Korean Youth Culture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Dafna Zur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The Neurocognitive Criminology of Avenging Memories: Dissociative Violence in Young-ha Kim's <i>The Mnemonics of a Murderer</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Haerin Shin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>The Posthuman and Transboundary Imagination in Contemporary Korean Literature: Considering the Works of Pae Myŏnghun and Yun Ihyŏng<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Namkyung Yeon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Between Science and Politics: Science Fiction as a Critical Discourse in South Korea, 1960s-1990s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Sunyoung Park<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Encountering the Alien: Alterity and Innovation in North Korean Science Fiction since 1945<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Benoit Berthelier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Monstrous Science: The Great Monster Yong'gari (1967) and Cold War Science in 1960s South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Chunggang Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Madness, Medicine, and Masculinity in Kim Tongin's "Oh, the Frail-hearted”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Yoon Sun Yang<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'>Book Reviews<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal 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