[KS] Fall 2026 issue of Korea Journal

[Henry Em]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce, belatedly, the publication of *Korea Journal*'s
Fall 2026 issue, which has been available for almost two weeks.

In addition to one review essay and three book reviews, the Fall issue
features six research articles:

Two studies reexamine hierarchies in the past: one shows how Joseon women
of all classes shaped commerce in official and periodic markets, where
status, gender regulations, and the commodity economy intersected. The
other replaces a Tokyo-versus-Government-General model of Japanese colonial
rule with an account of competing imperial institutions and strategies.

Two articles question dominant frameworks of value and expertise: one links
premodern copy-makers and craftsmen with the 1990s Art Tech Group through a
model of art that joins creation, skill, material practice, and collective
knowledge. The other shows how Dorothea Sich's work in 1970s rural South
Korea challenged Western-centered development by emphasizing medical
pluralism and local health practices.

The issue also examines the New Right, whose late-1980s origins reveal a
failed attempt to break convincingly with the old conservative
establishment, and the role of Vietnamese religious practices in Vietnam
War fiction by Bảo Ninh, Tim O'Brien, and Hwang Sok-yong, who use them to
expose war's violence, mourn its victims, and challenge the ideologies that
justify it.

All articles are published under a CC-BY-ND license and are freely
available to read, download, and share, with proper attribution to the
authors and Korea Journal. Access the full issue at www.aks.ac.kr/kj

For submissions or inquiries, please contact us at koreajournal at aks.ac.kr

Henry EM (he/him)                            Jooyeun SON (she/her)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief                       Managing Editor

Gendered Markets: Female Merchants and Their Commercial Spaces in the
Joseon Era <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/2/60116> / Chennan DING (Shandong
University) New Right Historiography and the Problem of Differentiation
<https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/34/60117> / Keiran MACRAE (Seoul National
University)  The Management of Japan’s Food Supply from Colonial Korea and
Rice Control Policies through the Japanese Ministry of Colonial Affairs
from the Late 1920s to the Early 1940s
<https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/61/60118> / Eunjin CHOI (Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies)

*Copy-Makers, Craftsmen, and the Art Tech Group: A Critical Historiography
of Collective Technical Artistry <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/91/60119>*
/ *Gyung Jin SHIN (Hong Kong Baptist University)*

*War and Faith: Religious Perceptions in Korean, Vietnamese, and American
Vietnam War Novels <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/122/60120> */ *Yun-jeong JO
(Kookmin University) & Thi Hien NGUYEN (Van Lang University)*

*Negotiating Medical Pluralism: Dorothea Sich’s Transition from
Humanitarian Mission to Medical Anthropology in 1970s South Korea
<https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/156/60121>* /* Dahye JEONG (Korea
University) & Max ALTENHOFEN (Sungkyunkwan University)*

*[Review Essay] Reading in Parallax: Two Visions of Media in Kim Jong-un’s
North Korea <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/186/60122>* / *Eun Ah CHO
(University of Kansas)*

*[Book Review] Digital Platforms as Mediators through the Lens of Critical
Cultural Industries Studies Framework
<https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/202/60123>* / *Young A. JUNG (George Mason
University)*

*[Book Review] An Insider View of Left-Identified Queer Activism
<https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/208/60124>* / *Todd A. HENRY (University of
California, San Diego)*

*[Book Review] Faces of the American Empire Reflected in the Mirror of
Korea <https://accesson.kr/kj/v.66/3/213/60125>* / *Jiseung ROH (Incheon
National University)*


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*Henry Em *(임흥순 | he, him)

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