Project MUSE®: Seoul Journal of Korean Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Seoul Journal of Korean Studies.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 26 (June 2013) through current issueLatest Articles: Seoul Journal of Korean StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Seoul Journal of Korean Studies2331-48261225-0201Latest articles in Seoul Journal of Korean Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Note from the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979859
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As Korean studies continues to grow as a field, so does the number and diversity of academic positions across institutions and national borders. In keeping with these changes, Seoul Journal of Korean Studies looks for new and developing trends, regardless of subfield, periodization, or region. Admittedly, North American institutions continue to drive many of these concerns, as is the case in this issue combining three regular and three special articles. The special section is the first of a two-part series. Part two, which will consist of four articles and appear in June 2026, will continue to focus on Korean religion but particularly the diverse forms of Catholicism practiced on the peninsula. Like previous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallNote from the Editor2026-01-16text/htmlen-USNote from the Editor2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®54272026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Guest Editors' Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979860
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The Korean Catholic Church is often celebrated as a success story. Established without the direct intervention of missionaries on the peninsula, it endured fearsome persecution creating heroic martyrs, gained an increasing number of blessed and saints, and has attained a respected place in Korean society and the international Catholic community. Contacts with Catholicism exposed Koreans, both Catholic and non-Catholic, to Western science and technology. While those Koreans were primarily educated male yangban, new ways of understanding the world trickled down to women and lost-status men, opening new vistas of human dignity and freedom. The story of Catholicism in Korea thus presents an image of Koreans dynamically
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallGuest Editors' Introduction2026-01-16text/htmlen-USGuest Editors' Introduction2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®101422026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Care Under Empire: Catholic Orphanages and Colonial Welfare in Korea, 1888–1945
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979861
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In July 1921, the Japanese Government-General of Korea (GGK) implemented a new framework for social welfare policy by establishing the Social Affairs Department (Shakaika 社會科), tasked with overseeing relief and charity initiatives. Seeking to modernize and reform the social welfare system in Korea, the Social Affairs Department served as a formal mechanism to regulate existing charity efforts, many of which were spearheaded by Christian organizations. A significant portion of the relief work, particularly efforts concerning orphans, was managed by Catholic nuns, with the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres being the most prominent.1Following the Korea-France Treaty of 1886, which expanded legal protections for Catholic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallCare Under Empire: Catholic Orphanages and Colonial Welfare in Korea, 1888–19452026-01-16text/htmlen-USCare Under Empire: Catholic Orphanages and Colonial Welfare in Korea, 1888–19452026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®1186892026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16The Dialogic Culturation of Mother Mary in South Korea: Between Universal Aspirations and Local Footprints
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979862
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While Catholicism has been present on the Korean Peninsula for a considerable period, evolving through a complex and sometimes conflictual history, it continues to attract numerous adherents and actively participate in the cultural, economic, and political life of South Korea through its various institutions (Baker and Rausch 2017). In this regard, Catholicism is a distinctly Korean religion that warrants serious study to understand contemporary Korea.However, whether in South Korea or elsewhere, the study of Catholicism raises a series of theoretical and methodological challenges. Catholicism is simultaneously a global religion and a localized reality that each national community appropriates and transforms. In
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallThe Dialogic Culturation of Mother Mary in South Korea: Between Universal Aspirations and Local Footprints2026-01-16text/htmlen-USThe Dialogic Culturation of Mother Mary in South Korea: Between Universal Aspirations and Local Footprints2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®847682026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Through a Glass Darkly: Contemporary Korean Catholic Portrayals of Paul Yun Jichung
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979863
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Bishop Francis Xavier An Myeong-ok, then head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea's (CBCK) Special Episcopal Commission to Promote Beatification and Canonization (Sibok siseong jugyo teukbyeol wiwonhoe), gave an interview responding to the news that the Vatican had approved the beatification of Paul Yun Jichung and his 123 companions on February 8, 2014 (CBCK 2014). An expressed how happy and grateful he was for this honor, particularly as it represented worldwide recognition of the Korean Catholic Church and its martyrs. Moreover, An explained that although the martyrs lived in a time of "oppression" and "exploitation," they responded with a deep faith that led them to be willing to sacrifice their lives
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallThrough a Glass Darkly: Contemporary Korean Catholic Portrayals of Paul Yun Jichung2026-01-16text/htmlen-USThrough a Glass Darkly: Contemporary Korean Catholic Portrayals of Paul Yun Jichung2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®1197322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16From Site of Tragedy to Commemorative Space: King Jeongjo's Reorganization of Palace Space and the Reconfiguration of Crown Prince Sado's Memory
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979864
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In 1762 (the thirty-eighth year of King Yeongjo's reign), Crown Prince Sado was confined in a rice chest at Munjeongjeon 文政殿 in Changgyeong Palace by royal order and died there. Jeongjo, then only eleven years old, personally witnessed the tragic moment of his father's confinement in a rice chest.1 On the day Crown Prince Sado died, King Yeongjo moved his residence from Changgyeong Palace to Gyeonghui Palace.2 He spent most of his remaining years there and ultimately died at Gyeonghui Palace.3 Jeongjo, who was then seson 世孫 (the crown prince's son), also resided at Gyeonghui Palace, following his grandfather King Yeongjo.It was only after the death of King Yeongjo that King Jeongjo moved his residence to Changdeok
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallFrom Site of Tragedy to Commemorative Space: King Jeongjo's Reorganization of Palace Space and the Reconfiguration of Crown Prince Sado's Memory2026-01-16text/htmlen-USFrom Site of Tragedy to Commemorative Space: King Jeongjo's Reorganization of Palace Space and the Reconfiguration of Crown Prince Sado's Memory2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®1179702026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Cookbooks and the Making of Women's Authorship in the 1933 Copyright Case
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979865
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This article examines one of the best-known copyright lawsuits during the period of Japanese colonial rule, a 1933 lawsuit centered on the bestselling cookbook Recipes for Joseon Cuisine (Joseon yorijebeop 朝鮮料理製法), to explore the emergence of women's authorship within the burgeoning modern book market of early twentieth-century Korea. Authored by Bang Sinyeong (1890–1977), Recipes for Joseon Cuisine was among the earliest and most commercially successful modern cookbooks of its time. First published in 1917, it enjoyed enduring popularity, remaining in print until 1978 and appearing in a total of thirty-four editions that reflected continual additions and revisions (Yun 2022, 182). Bang's cookbook has been widely
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallCookbooks and the Making of Women's Authorship in the 1933 Copyright Case2026-01-16text/htmlen-USCookbooks and the Making of Women's Authorship in the 1933 Copyright Case2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®1522712026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Hallyu Sociolinguistic Repercussions in Brazil: The Language Uses of Brazilian Virtual Communities through K-Drama Online Groups
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979866
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The massive current presence of Korean productions in Brazil should be addressed in the global context of Hallyu, also known as the Korean Wave. Since the 1990s, this movement has heralded a worldwide rise in the popularity of all Korean things (Bae et al. 2017; Ganghariya and Kanozia 2020), including fashion, games, cuisine, and language. However, it was mainly through the expansion and commodification (Lee and Nornes 2015) of three Korean cultural flagships that Hallyu gained its popularity: pop music (K-pop), serialized series (K-dramas), and movies (K-films). Nowadays, Hallyu is considered a main channel of East Asian popular culture (B. Kim 2015) and a form of soft power endorsed and appropriated by the South
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallHallyu Sociolinguistic Repercussions in Brazil: The Language Uses of Brazilian Virtual Communities through K-Drama Online Groups2026-01-16text/htmlen-USHallyu Sociolinguistic Repercussions in Brazil: The Language Uses of Brazilian Virtual Communities through K-Drama Online Groups2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®2077122026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16Monumental Achievements for Mongol Empire Studies: Celebration and Analysis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979867
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Recently, two high-profile long-term projects, highly anticipated by the academic community in the field of Mongol Empire studies, culminated in two giant publications: The Mongol World (2022) and The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (2023). Both took several years from conception to fruition, aiming to cover virtually every aspect of the Mongol Empire. As well as inspiring scholars in this field around the world for years to come, these books could potentially aid historical studies of the Korean medieval period, prompting comparative studies of the Korean Peninsula under Mongol rule with other regions in similar situations, and rethinking of key historical references as well as prior research
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/622/image/coversmallMonumental Achievements for Mongol Empire Studies: Celebration and Analysis2026-01-16text/htmlen-USMonumental Achievements for Mongol Empire Studies: Celebration and Analysis2026-01-162026TWOProject MUSE®982642026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-16