<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Greetings to the Korean Studies Community!</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b style="font-style:italic">Korean Studies</b> issue<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>"Digital Korean Studies" (2023, Volume 47)</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> is now <b>free to download</b></span><b>.</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><br></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The groundbreaking Special Section "Digital</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Korean</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Studies,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">" which represents and contemplates the methods and theory in Korean studies in the digital era, was dexterously curated by the guest-editors<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Javier Cha</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(University of Hong Kong) and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Barbara Wall</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</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"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have a special issue idea, we're all ears. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">You can find out more about<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Korean Studies</i> here<b>: </b></span><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/ks/" target="_blank">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)"><b>C. Harrison Kim <a href="mailto:kseditor@hawaii.edu">kseditor@hawaii.edu</a></b> (</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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i>Korean Studies,</i></b><b> Volume 47, 2023</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u>Special Section: Digital Korean Studies</u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Introduction to Special Section Digital Korean Studies</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Javier Cha<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Hong Kong)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Barbara Wall<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Copenhagen)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Korean Chronicles Under a Macroscope: Towards a Digital Infrastructure in Premodern Korean Studies</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Hyeok Hweon Kang<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Washington University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Michelle Suh<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Google)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mapping the Circulation and Use of Korean Tea Bowls in Sixteenth-Century Japan</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Sol Jung<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(<span style="font-size:12pt">Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visualizing Divergence: Rhetorical Education and Historical Imagination in China and Korea (ca. 1314–1644)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Barbara Wall<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Copenhagen) </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Dong Myong Lee<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(South Korea-based programmer)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intertextual Du Fu: A Study of Citation Network Analysis</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Jamie Jungmin Yoo<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Yonsei University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Kiho Sung<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Yonsei University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Changhee Lee<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Korea University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decamping the Partisans: US Hegemony and South Korea's Divisive Discourse on North Korean Human Rights</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Jacob A. Reidhead<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(National Chengchi University)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;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="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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 Korean Languages</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Benoit Berthelier<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(<span style="font-size:12pt">University of Sydney)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big Data Studies: The Humanities in Uncharted Waters</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Javier Cha<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(University of Hong Kong)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Epilogue: What Counts as Deep Learning in Korean Studies?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;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>