<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings to the Korean studies community! </div><div>We are thrilled to announce the publication of 2025 <i>Korean Studies</i>, Volume 49. </div><div>Available in Project Muse through your library. Thank you. --Harrison Kim (Editor)</div><div>----------</div><div><div><br><b><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54881" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large" target="_blank"><i>Korean Studies, </i>Volume 49, 2025</a><br></b><br><b><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Editor's Note<br></font></b><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)<br></font><br><u style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54881" target="_blank">Special Section. <i>Feminist Korean Studies</i></a></u><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><u><br></u><b>Introduction to the Special Section <i>Feminist Korean Studies</i><br></b>Anat Schwartz (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)</font><br><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Soyi Kim (Duke University, USA)<br><br><b>Sexual Violence and Censorship in Contemporary Korea: Examining the Debate Surrounding the Digital Sexual Violence Prevention Law<br></b>Min Joo Lee (Occidental College, USA)<br> <br><b>Hypervisible Pain and Invisible Bodies: The Rhetoric of Neoliberal Subjectivity and Women's Suffering in Contemporary South Korea<br></b>Yoon Won Chang (Emory University, USA)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"> <br><b>Radical Contours: Exclusion, Precarity, and Radical Geography in South Korean Feminist Activist Spaces<br></b>Anat Schwartz </font><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">(California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA)</span><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br><br><b>Delicate Hands, Tender Voices, Slender Bodies: Articulating Female Labor through Beauty and Care in the 1960s Taehan NewsNewsreel<br></b>Monica W. Cho (University of California, Irvine, USA)<br><br><b>Fear of the Bodies: Envisioning the Gendered Masses in South Korean Documentary Films<br></b>Hyun Seon Park (George Mason University, USA)<br><br><b>Mediated Disgust: Jia Chang's Multimedia Installation Art on Body Waste<br></b>Soyi Kim (Duke University)<br> <br><u><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54881" target="_blank">Research Articles</a></u></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><u><br></u><b>The "Androgynous Mind" in the Postwar Poetry of Pak In-hwan<br></b>Han Sung Kim (</font><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Sookmyung Women\u2019s University, South Korea)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Jung A Choi (KyungHee University, South Korea)<br> <br><b>Chos\u014fn Korea and Thailand's Entangled History: Britain, Russia, and the Question of the Buffer State in Nineteenth-Century Asia<br></b>Sangpil Jin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)<br> <br><b>Diachronic Analysis of Incongruent News Headlines: A Case Study of Inter-Korean Summits<br></b>Jin Hee Park (</font><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">Leiden University, The Netherlands)</font><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br><br><b>"To Preserve the Spirit of Korea despite the Disintegration of Its Form": Pak \u016cnsik and Hankuk T'ongsa (A Painful History of Korea) as a Beacon of Historical Nationalism<br></b>Kyu-hyun Jo (University of Malaya, Malaysia)<br> <br><b>The Hodge\u2013Kozuki Correspondence and Japan's Postwar Revival in "Liberated" Korea<br></b>Mark E. Caprio (Rikkyo University, Japan)<br> <br><b>Philip Jaisohn's International Reform Work<br></b>Hope Elizabeth May (Central Michigan University, USA)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br><u><a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54881" target="_blank">Book Reviews</a></u></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><u><br></u><b>Privilege and Anxiety: The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era by Hagen Koo<br></b>Yewon Andrea Lee (University of Tuebingen, Germany)<br><br><b>Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea by Namhee Lee<br></b>Myungji Yang (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)<br><br><b>Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers by June Hee Kwon<br></b>Young-a Park (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)<br> <br><b>Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy by Joan E. Cho<br></b>Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto, Canada)<br><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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