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Acta Koreana is a peer-reviewed international journal of Korean Studies published in English by Academia Koreana, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea. The journal was established in 1998 for the purpose of promoting new research on Korea in all academic disciplines within the arts and humanities. Although it began as an annual publication, since 2002 it has been published semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 and accepts submissions of papers on Korean studies topics throughout the year. It is now well recognized as an international academic journal on Korea Studies, and is indexed in Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Elsevier's SCOPUS, CSA Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest), Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) and Korea Citation Index(KCI). All articles (PDF full-text) are accessible on SocINDEX with Full Text by Ebscohost, Google Scholar, eArticle.net and this website. Before being accepted for publication, all manuscripts are carefully evaluated and refereed by an international editorial board composed of leading scholars in their respective fields.
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Volume 21, Number 1, June 2018Editorial Board
Publisher: SYNN ILHI
Editor: MICHAEL C. E. FINCH
Managing Editor: JANET Y. LEE
Editorial Assistant: KIM DAIN
EDITORIAL BOARD
DONALD L. BAKER, University of British Columbia, Canada
MARK E. CAPRIO, Rikkyo University, Japan
CHOI JONGRYUL, Keimyung University, Korea
JOHN B. DUNCAN, University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.A.
MARION EGGERT, , Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
BRUCE FULTON, University of British Columbia, Canada
JAMES H. GRAYSON, University of Sheffield, U.K
JOHN I. GOULDE, Sweet Briar College, U.S.A.
SONJA HÄUSSLER, Stockholm University, Sweden
ROGER JANELLI, Indiana University, U.S.A.
BURGLIND JUNGMANN, Heidelberg University, Germany
LAUREL KENDALL, American Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.
KIM GWON GU, Keimyung University, Korea
KIM JONGMYUNG, Academy of Korean Studies, Korea
ROSS KING, University of British Columbia, Canada
KOH BOO EUNG, Chung-Ang University, Korea
KWON YOUNGMIN, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A
JAMES B. LEWIS, University of Oxford, U.K.
KEVIN O'ROURKE, Kyunghee University, Korea
PARK CHANSEUNG, Hanyang University, Korea
WAYNE PATTERSON, St. Norbert College, U.S.A.
ROBERT PROVINE, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
RO YOUNG-CHAN, George Mason University, U.S.A.
KENNETH R. ROBINSON, International Christian University, Japan
SOHN SUNG-OCK, University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.A.
CHAEKI FREYA SYNN, Keimyung University, Korea
THEME ISSUE GUEST EDITOR
LEE HEE SOO, Hanyang University, Seoul