<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,9,11);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Korea Journal</span><span style="color:rgb(9,9,11);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> is pleased to announce the publication of its Summer 2026 special issue. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(9,9,11);white-space:pre-wrap">As guest editor Hyojin L. Fromell notes, South Korea\u2019s religious landscape comprises over 927 registered bodies\u2014encompassing Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and numerous indigenous and new religious movements. This landscape is distinctive in that religion, ethnicity, and national origin are </span>
<span style="color:rgb(9,9,11)">not necessarily aligned</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(9,9,11);white-space:pre-wrap">, producing configurations of diversity rarely found elsewhere. Indeed, as the articles in this special issue demonstrate, South Korea serves as a generative hub within global circuits of religious exchange.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,9,11);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></font></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(9,9,11)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In addition to the special feature, the Summer 2026 issue presents three research articles: an analysis of wartime medical reconstruction led by the WHO and UNKRA that rendered South Korean society more legible to the state; a study on the relationship between power, fake news, and partisan polarization across two presidential elections; and an examination of the translation and reception of Han Kang\u2019s literary works in China.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(9,9,11)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(9,9,11)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Finally, the issue includes three review essays: Kyu-hyun Jo discusses recent publications by Cornel Chang, Stephen Hong Sohn, and Yumi Moon; Keum-youn Han reviews Han Kang\u2019s <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px">Light and Thread</em> (2026); and Min Jung You examines Jae Kyo Jin\u2019s <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px">Jisik gwa Joseon</em> (2025).<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(9,9,11)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(9,9,11)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(228,228,231);margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Korea Journal</span> is an Open Access publication. 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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/1/59528" target="_blank">[On this topic] Beyond Coexistence: Importation, Reinterpretation, and Retransmission in South Korea\u2019s Religious Landscape</a></span></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/12/59529" target="_blank">Seokjeon in Transition: Continuities, Transformations, and Institutional Influences on the Confucian Memorial Rite in Post-Liberation Korea</a></span></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/42/59530" target="_blank">What Makes Cheontae Cheontae? A New Buddhist Movement and the Reinterpretation of the Cheontae Tradition in Contemporary Korea</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/66/59531" target="_blank">Between Hwadu and Mindfulness: Seon Meditation in Korean Templestay Programs for International Audiences</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/101/59532" target="_blank">Individualism and Divination in Korea: From the Jeomchal Ceremony for Nullified Negative Karma to FutureTelling Esoteric Tools</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/134/59533" target="_blank">Reconstructing Health: The WHO/UNKRA Mission and Postwar Medical Development in South Korea</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/164/59534" target="_blank">Power Ownership Matters, Not Political Orientation: Sources and Responsibility Attributions of Fake News in Media Articles around Two Presidential Elections in Korea</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/197/59535" target="_blank">Translation and Recognition of Han Kang in China</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/238/59536" target="_blank">[Review Essay] The Korean War\u2019s Three Afterlives: Hypothetical Post-Liberation History, Korean Cold War Refugees, and an Excavation of Hidden Voices in Korean-American Literature</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/254/59537" target="_blank">[Book Reivew] \u201cLife is but a Weaving\u201d: Writing as a Quest for the Gold Thread</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma"><a href="https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/2/261/59538" target="_blank">[Book Review] Mapping the Epistemic Landscape of Late Joseon</a></span></strong></p>
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