Dear Colleagues,
I'm happy to report that a new issue of the /Seoul Journal of Korean
Studies/ has rolled off the press. And although we are no longer
included in any of the hallowed Thomson-Reuters indices, I am convinced
that the articles are more interesting and original than ever. Piece by
piece they present important new research that considerable sharpens our
understanding of well-known phenomena (the /sowon/, Choson envoys'
records of trips to China) or contains virtually unknown facts (lay monk
villages, the parentage of late Koryo kings, Korea's mineral richness).
The contents of vol. 26, no. 2 (2013) is as follows:
The Elusive Path to Sagehood: Origins of the Confucian Academy System in
Korea
*Milan Hejtmanek*
“The Mystery of the Century:” Lay Buddhist Monk Villages
(/Chaegas//ŭ//ngch’on/) near Korea’s Northernmost Border, 1600s-1960s
*Kim Hwansoo*
Chengde and the Barbarians: Reading Ethnicity and Difference in Pak
Chiwŏn’s /Y//ŏ//rha ilgi/
*Min Eun Kyung*
Deconstructing the Official /History of Kory//ŏ/in Late Chosŏn: The
Discovery of the /Un'gok sisa/ and the Refutation of the Theory that Sin
Ton Sired Kings U and Ch’ang
*Jeong Hohun*
**
More Valuable than Gold: Korean Tungsten and the Japanese War Economy,
1910 to 1945
*Chad Denton*
The articles will soon be available to download on Project Muse. A
limited number of hard copies is available; please write to
seoul.journal@gmail.com
if you would like a copy. For submission
information and anything else related to the journal, please use the
same mail address.
Sem Vermeersch
Associate Director,
International Center for Korean Studies
Seoul National University
599 Gwanangno, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742
Tel. +82-2-880-4038
