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<b><span style="color:#201F1E; font-size:12pt"><i>European Journal of Korean Studies</i> Vol 22 (1)</span></b><span style="color:#201F1E"> </span><span> </span></p>
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T<span style="color:#201F1E; font-size:12pt">he <i>European Journal of Korean Studies</i> aims to be the leading peer-reviewed, citation-indexed outlet for academic output in Europe in the English language, providing European and global scholars of Korea a
venue that we know has been much in demand, long called for, and greatly anticipated.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"> </span><span> </span></p>
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<b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Special Section</span></b></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Evolving Roles of the South Korean Government in Preparing Diplomatic and Industrial Change
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>EUNJU HWANG</b></span><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">
(University for the Creative Arts) and </span><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>DONGHYEOK JEONG</b></span><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">
(Coventry University)</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Transformation of South Korean Government Digital Communications
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:black"><b>KYOUNGHEE CHO</b></span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:black">,
Pusan National University </span><br>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">In Search of Talent: Startup Policy in South Korea</span></div>
<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted3"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>FELICIA ISTAD</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Korea University</span><br>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Does South Korea Exercise Middle-Power Diplomacy Toward Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?
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<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted4"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>ERIKS VARPAHOVSKIS</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, National Research University Higher School
of Economics, Moscow (HSE University) </span><br>
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<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted4 ContentPasted5"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">South Korea’s Public Diplomacy Actors in Uzbekistan
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<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted4"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>NATALYA STEANE</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Coventry University and Aarhus University,
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>EUNJU HWANG
</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">University for the Creative Arts, and
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>SALVATORE COLUCCELLO</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Coventry University</span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted4 ContentPasted6"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Evolution of Protestantism in Post-Soviet Russia and the Impact of South Korean Missionaries
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>ZHANNA SON</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (HSE University) and
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>KONSTANIN SHEIKO</b></span></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span class="ContentPasted7" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The King’s Gambit: Kojong’s Initiative to Set Up Chosŏn Legations in Japan, the United States, and Europe in 1887</span><b class="ContentPasted7"><br>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>DARIA GRISHINA</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (HSE University)
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<div class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted8"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Celebration of Children’s First Birthday (Asyandi/асянди) in the Korean Community of the Primorye Region in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: History
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<div class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>ALEXANDER KIM</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Vladivostok State University,
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>MARIIA SURZHIK</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Independent Scholar, Ussuriysk, and
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>ALEKSEI MAMYCHEV</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Moscow State University</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Papers in the special section in this issue explore the varied industrial and diplomatic strategies undertaken by the South Korean government, particularly focused on digital communications
and policies towards the support of entrepreneurs and startups. They also address, helpfully building on past writing in our journal, South Korean diplomatic engagements and interactions with the countries of Central Asia (Uzbekistan in these cases). Further
papers in this issue consider the work of South Korean Protestant missionaries in the religious</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> milieu of post-Soviet Russia, the diplomatic endeavours of King Kojong at the end of
the19</span><span style="color:#201F1E; font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="line-height:normal"> century, and
</span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">the continued and adapted cultural celebrations and practices of Koreans living in Russia's Pimorye (Primorsky) region. The </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"><i>European
Journal of Korean Studies</i></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> Vol 22 (1) also offers a review of some of the most intriguing recent book-length writing, including a review of
</span><span class="ContentPasted9 ContentPasted10" style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Heonik Kwon and Jun Hwan Park's
</span><span class="ContentPasted9 ContentPasted10" style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"><i>Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea’s American Century</i></span><span class="ContentPasted9 ContentPasted10" style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">.</span><span class="ContentPasted9 ContentPasted10"><br>
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