The Korea Journal is a peer-reviewed, English language

English language

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 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 focusing on Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

n Studies. It was founded in 1961 and is currently published quarterly. It is indexed in Institute for Scientific Information

Institute for Scientific Information

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 (ISI): Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and Current Contents: Arts & Humanities. The publisher is Taeck-soo Chun and the Editor-in-Chief is Kim Min-a.

It was established under the auspices of UNESCO

UNESCO

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 and currently is published by the Korean National Commission for UNESCO http://www.unesco.or.kr/eng/.

This journal is sometimes confused with the Journal of Korean Studies

Journal of Korean Studies

The Journal of Korean Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Korean studies. It was established in 1969. The original series had two issues numbered Volume 1 and 2 that were edited by David Messler...

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