We are happy to announce that the latest issue of the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies is now available via Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622) and KISS (https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Jr?Ins=2404&Jur=30887). For the list of articles and book notes published in this issue, please see below.

The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies is published by the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University and is indexed in KCI, SCOPUS, and ESCI. If you are interested in submitting your original research to the journal, please refer to the guidelines below. For further inquiries, please contact seoul.journal@gmail.com.

Seoul Journal of Korean Studies - Vol. 37, No. 2 (December 2024)

Theme Issue - Imagining a Prosperous Socialist Nation: Human-Centered Approaches in North Korean Studies

● Gabor SEBO, “Guest Editor’s Introduction”

● Peter G. MOODY, “Cementing the Sounds of State-Building: Early North Korean Mass Music and Staged Works of Music, 1945–1949”

● Gabor SEBO, “Far from Flawless Socialist Cinema: Shifting Hungarian Judgments of North Korea’s Ceaseless Cinematic Schematism”

● Roman HUSARSKI, “Films from a Country that Fights for Freedom: An Overview of North Korean Cinema in the Polish People’s Republic”

● Douglas GABRIEL, “Children of the Juche Revolution: Picturing North Korean Youth Culture at the Thirteenth World Festival of Youth and Students”

● Jasmine BARRETT and Keith MCVILLY, “Assessing Access to Education for Children with Disabilities in the DPRK”

● Gabor SEBO, “[Book Note] Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas by Travis Workman”

Articles

● Cheolhui LEE, “The Invention of Pyeongmin: A Critical Reevaluation of “Social Estate Theory” in Korean History“

● Hyonhui CHOE, “Transplanted Modernity and the Reconfiguration of Nation: Im Hwa’s Writings on Modern Korean Literary History and National Literature”

● Seok-Won LEE, “Social Science Mattered: Choe Munhwan and the Knowledge of Nation-Building in Early Cold War South Korea”

● CedarBough T. SAEJI, “Capitalizing on Korean Heritage: A Case Study of Mask Dance Drama Students”

Book Notes

● Hyungsub CHOI, “Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha”

● Sungik YANG, “Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee by Peter Banseok Kwon”

● Wonjung MIN, “Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century by Kyung Hyun Kim”

● Ran MA, “Activism and Post-Activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981–2022 by Jihoon Kim”

Submission Guidelines

★ We welcome submissions from scholars of all disciplines (history, literature, social studies, archaeology, etc.), specifically pertaining to Korea.

★ Submissions should be sent to seoul.journal@gmail.com.

- The length must be 6,000~15,000 words (including notes and references), based on the word count function in Microsoft Word.

- Submission must contain an abstract, main text, and references, following the Chicago Manual of Style and Revised Romanization of Korean.

- There is no submission, evaluation, or publication fees for authors.

★ The journal is published twice a year on June 30th and December 31st.

★ There is no specific submission deadline, and submissions are immediately processed for evaluation. The evaluation process normally takes 2~3 month. Please note that it will take extra time if a submission is decided to be “re-evaluated after revisions.”

★ For more information, please check the journal website (https://sjks.snu.ac.kr/page/index.jsp?code=general).