We are happy to announce that the latest issue of the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies is now available via Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54117) and KISS (https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Jr?Ins=2404&Jur=30887). For the list of articles and book notes published in this issue, please see below.

 

 

Seoul Journal of Korean Studies - Vol. 37, No. 2 (December 2024)

 

Theme Issue - Imagining a Prosperous Socialist Nation: Human-Centered Approaches in North Korean Studies

• Gabor SEBO, “Guest Editor’s Introduction”
• Peter G. MOODY, “Cementing the Sounds of State-Building: Early North Korean Mass Music and Staged Works of Music, 1945–1949”
• Gabor SEBO, “Far from Flawless Socialist Cinema: Shifting Hungarian Judgments of North Korea’s Ceaseless Cinematic Schematism”
• Roman HUSARSKI, “Films from a Country that Fights for Freedom: An Overview of North Korean Cinema in the Polish People’s Republic”
• Douglas GABRIEL, “Children of the Juche Revolution: Picturing North Korean Youth Culture at the Thirteenth World Festival of Youth and Students”
• Jasmine BARRETT and Keith MCVILLY, “Assessing Access to Education for Children with Disabilities in the DPRK”
• Gabor SEBO, “[Book Note] Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas by Travis Workman”

 

Articles

• Cheolhui LEE, “The Invention of Pyeongmin: A Critical Reevaluation of “Social Estate Theory” in Korean History“
• Hyonhui CHOE, “Transplanted Modernity and the Reconfiguration of Nation: Im Hwa’s Writings on Modern Korean Literary History and National Literature”
• Seok-Won LEE, “Social Science Mattered: Choe Munhwan and the Knowledge of Nation-Building in Early Cold War South Korea”
• CedarBough T. SAEJI, “Capitalizing on Korean Heritage: A Case Study of Mask Dance Drama Students”

 

Book Notes

• Hyungsub CHOI, “Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea by Yong-Chool Ha”
• Sungik YANG, “Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee by Peter Banseok Kwon”
• Wonjung MIN, “Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century by Kyung Hyun Kim”
• Ran MA, “Activism and Post-Activism: Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981–2022 by Jihoon Kim”