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  • Editorial Note
  • Clark W. Sorensen, Editor-in-Chief

We are happy to publish our fifth thematic issue “Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art” guest edited by Theodore Hughes and Jina Kim. This issue focuses on the “transgressions of boundaries between media” that Werner Wolf defines as intermediality. Under this theme the guest editors have assembled a variety of articles that address such things as identity issues posed by new electronic media; how the absence of North Korean participation in the 2014 Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale created “an in-between space” that is paradoxically neither North nor South Korea; how writers adapted foreign films as contes during the Colonial Period to avoid censorship; how canonical literary works of the 1930s were adapted to film in the 1960s; Korean-Taiwanese interaction intermediated by empire; and complex issues involved in the contemporary reproduction of historical documents in Korea in which the Chinese logographs, or premodern spellings of the original may or may not be represented.

We are also well on our way in transitioning to a new editorial team, Charles Armstrong and Theodore Hughes at Columbia University. I will continue as editor-in-chief through volume 21 (2016), and the new team will be responsible for subsequent volumes. Except for a few possible extra book or movie reviews, volume 21 (2016) is already full. The new editorial team will be making decisions on new articles and thematic issues from now on. I wish them well and am looking forward to their insights refreshing the journal while I concentrate more on my own writing. [End Page 249]

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