<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Greetings, and a very happy new year to the Korean studies community!</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The latest issue of <i><b>Korean Studies</b></i> with the Special Section <b>"Digital Korean Studies" (2023, Volume 47)</b> has seen the <b>most number of downloads ever.</b> </font></div><div><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><font size="4">https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719</font></span></a><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">We thought spotlighting this important body of work is the best way for us to start the new year. Check out the contents below. The articles are available through Project Muse. </font><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><font size="4">https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719</font></span></a></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The groundbreaking Special Section "Digital</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Studies,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">" which represents and contemplates the methods and theory of Korean studies in the digital era, was dexterously curated by the guest-editors <b>Javier Cha</b> (University of Hong Kong) and <b>Barbara Wall</b> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of Copenhagen)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">And of course, we look forward to receiving your special issue ideas. Above all, we want to assist you to publish your research. First-time authors are especially welcome! <b>You can find out more about <i>Korean Studies</i> here: </b></span><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/ks/">https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/ks/</a></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">All inquiries to the editor </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">C. Harrison Kim (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Associate Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa)</span></font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-----------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span>,</i></b><b> Volume 47, 2023</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><font size="4">https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51719</font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u>Special Section: Digital<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Introduction to Special Section Digital<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Javier Cha </b>(University of Hong Kong)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Barbara Wall </b>(University of Copenhagen)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chronicles Under a Macroscope: Towards a Digital Infrastructure in Premodern<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Hyeok Hweon Kang </b>(Washington University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Michelle Suh </b>(Google)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cultural Networks of the Chungin: Chosŏn Interpreters' Participation in Poetry Societies</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Jing Hu (</b><span style="font-size:12pt">Berlin State Library)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mapping the Circulation and Use of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tea Bowls in Sixteenth-Century Japan</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Sol Jung </b>(<span style="font-size:12pt">Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visualizing Divergence: Rhetorical Education and Historical Imagination in China and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korea</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(ca. 1314–1644)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Shoufu Yin (</b><span style="font-size:12pt">University of British Columbia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stability in Variation: Visualizing the Actantial Core of The Journey to the West,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Barbara Wall </b>(University of Copenhagen) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Dong Myong Lee </b>(South Korea-based programmer)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intertextual Du Fu: A Study of Citation Network Analysis</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Jamie Jungmin Yoo </b>(Yonsei University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Kiho Sung </b>(Yonsei University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Changhee Lee </b>(Korea University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decamping the Partisans: US Hegemony and South<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korea</span>'s Divisive Discourse on North<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Human Rights</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Jacob A. Reidhead </b>(National Chengchi University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Writing on the Wall: Affective Politicization of the Sewŏl Disaster on Facebook</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Liora Sarfati (</b><span style="font-size:12pt">Tel Aviv University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Guy Shababo (</b><span style="font-size:12pt">Hebrew University of Jerusalem)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Division and the Digital Language Divide: A Critical Perspective on Natural Language Processing Resources for the South and North<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Languages</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Benoit Berthelier </b>(<span style="font-size:12pt">University of Sydney)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span>: The Humanities in Uncharted Waters</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Javier Cha </b>(University of Hong Kong)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Epilogue: What Counts as Deep Learning in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Korean</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Studies</span>?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Wayne de Fremery (</b><span style="font-size:12pt">Dominican University of California)</span></p></div></div></div></div>