<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Steven Hugh Lee notes that U.S. occupation policies in southern Korea from 1945 to 1948 and the establishment of an anti-communist Republic of Korea were, in many respects, a continuation of U.S. military operations and policies in the American Philippines during and after World War II. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Given such continuities, in what sense was August 15, 1945, a liberation? </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">To commemorate the event that took place eighty years ago, referred to as </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Gwangbok</i><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px"> - </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"><i>gwangbok gumul</i>, </span><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">the restoration </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">of ancestral heritage</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px"> - </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Korea Journal</i><span style="background-color:rgb(252,251,251);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px"> is pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Liberation, 1945." This special issue features five research articles that shed light on less-understood aspects of Korea's "liberation" from Japanese colonial rule.</span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12px 0px 0px;border:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(252,251,251)">Established in 1961, Korea Journal supports gold open access. All articles are published under a CC-BY-ND license, which allows for free distribution with proper attribution, provided the work remains unmodified. Click the links to download the articles.</p></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://independent.academia.edu/HenryEm" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Henry EM</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt">
(he/him) </span><a href="https://www.aks.ac.kr/com/cmm/EgovContentView.do?menuNo=2010124200#tab3" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Jooyeun SON</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Deputy Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">1. Myounhoi DO, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/1/57390" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">[On this topic] Liberation, 1945</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">2. Patrick
VIERTHALER, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/12/57391" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Contested Historical Memories of
August 15 in Democratic South Korea: <i>A Long-Term Perspective</i></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">3. Steven Hugh
LEE, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/47/57392" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Liberation Deferred: <i>Korea,
the United States, and the Eastern Asian World, 1943\u20131949</i></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">4. Jaehyung KIM, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/100/57393" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Fluid Borders: <i>The End of Empire and Korean
Migration from Manchuria</i></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">5. Jeong-Mi PARK, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/130/57394" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Postcolonial Bio-Power and the Duplicity of
Society: <i>South Korea under US Military Occupation, 1945\u20131948</i></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">6. Minji JO, </span><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.65/3/164/57395" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt">From Colonial Evil to Individual Choice: <i>Prostitution,
Gendered Citizenship, and the Making of </i>Democratic <i>South
Korea, 1945\u20131950</i></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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