Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments Perhaps as with all anthologies, the path to publication for this volume has been a winding road of progress with a few flat spots mixed in to make things interesting. The concept for the collection arose from a panel organized by Charlotte Horlyck for the Association for Asian Studies in 2008. It has been a great pleasure for the editors to have had the privilege of working with our contributors through this process, and it is our hope that the knowledge we have put forth in this work will allow others to move beyond our foundation and extend studies into death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea. Both editors owe more than a small measure of gratitude to the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) for the completion of this volume. Both our home institutions, the School of Oriental and African Studies and Binghamton University, have been fortunate to receive institutional grants from the AKS: this work was supported by Academy of Korean Studies (KSPS) Grants funded by the Korean government (MOE) (AKS-2011BAA -2104) and (AKS-2011-BAA-2103), which, in part, allowed this volume to go forward. Furthermore, Charlotte Horlyck would like to acknowledge the Korea Foundation for a grant in 2010 that allowed research of importance to this project. We would also like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Mr. Jung Taek Lee during the editing process: without his diligence, the final volume would not have been possible. We have made a careful effort to avoid inaccuracies in this book but realize that some may have slipped through, for which we take full responsibility. ...