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/55171) 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. 38, No. 1 (June 2025)

 

Articles

• Han Sung KIM, “‘The Banished Jupiter’: Kim Kirim’s Work of Mourning for Korean Literary Modernism and Yi Sang”
• PARK Yunjae, “A Distant Dream: The Formation and Evolution of Public Health Nursing in Korea, 1945–1979”
• Kyeong-sang KWAK, “The Emergence of Seoul Subway Line 2 and the Formation of a New Transportation Hub”
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Annotated Translation

• Derek J. KRAMER, “Waiting for the End: An Annotated Translation of ‘Hiroshima’s Last Day’”

 

Book Notes

• Ksenia CHIZHOVA, “How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea: From Sangguozhi yanyi to Samgukchi by Hyuk-chan Kwon”
• Hyung Wook PARK, “Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea by Jung Lee”
• Laura C. NELSON, “Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism by Seungsook Moon”
• Tanner ROGERS, “Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film by Christopher P. Hanscom”