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Korean Studies (journal)
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Korean Studies is an international, academic journal that seeks to further scholarship on Korea and Koreans abroad by providing a forum for interdisciplinary and multicultural articles, book reviews, and essays in the humanities and social sciences. It aims to appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike.
The journal was founded at the University of Hawaii
Center for Korean Studies under the directorship of Dae-Sook Suh. Volumes 1-3 list the Center faculty, but no editor. Volumes 4-6 list Peter D. Lee as editor, and subsequent volumes show editorial successions by Center faculty at intervals of (usually) three to six years. The journal continues to be edited at the UH Center for Korean Studies and published by the University of Hawaii Press
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The cover design changed in 1996, on its 20th anniversary. The translation of its title as Hangukhak, which appears in Korean script on the cover, has generated some controversy because only South Koreans call their country Hanguk. North Koreans call theirs Chosŏn (also spelled Joseon).
Korean Studies appears annually. However, volumes 25-26 (2001-2002) contain two issues each. Its first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE
.
This journal is sometimes confused with the Journal of Korean Studies
, which published 8 volumes between 1979 and 1992, then went into a long hiatus before reviving in 2004.
The journal was founded at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
Center for Korean Studies under the directorship of Dae-Sook Suh. Volumes 1-3 list the Center faculty, but no editor. Volumes 4-6 list Peter D. Lee as editor, and subsequent volumes show editorial successions by Center faculty at intervals of (usually) three to six years. The journal continues to be edited at the UH Center for Korean Studies and published by the University of Hawaii Press
University of Hawaii Press
The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaii.The University of Hawaii Press was founded in 1947, with the mission of advancing and disseminating scholarship by publishing current research in all disciplines of the humanities and natural and social...
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The cover design changed in 1996, on its 20th anniversary. The translation of its title as Hangukhak, which appears in Korean script on the cover, has generated some controversy because only South Koreans call their country Hanguk. North Koreans call theirs Chosŏn (also spelled Joseon).
Korean Studies appears annually. However, volumes 25-26 (2001-2002) contain two issues each. Its first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
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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...
, which published 8 volumes between 1979 and 1992, then went into a long hiatus before reviving in 2004.