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/57224) and KISS (https://kiss.kstudy.com/Detail/Jr?Ins=2404&Jur=30887). Please note that the journal’s website provides only the abstracts, not the full text, for research articles.
For the list of articles published in this issue, please see below.
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies - Vol. 39, No. 1 (June 2026)
Theme Issue — Diversity and Difference in Korean Catholicism
- Jieun HAN and Franklin D. RAUSCH, “Guest Editors’ Introduction”
- Meng-Heng LEE, “Strategic Leniency in State Penalties: Anti-Catholic Legal Practice during King Sunjo’s Reign (1801–1834)”
- Jieun HAN, “Between Benevolence and Anticommunism: Cardinal Spellman’s Religious Diplomacy and Relief Work in Korea, 1945–1962”
- Allen J. KIM, “Thirty-Six Years a Korean Jesuit in Japan: Relational Incorporation, Lived Religion, and Aging across Borders”
Articles
- Jongwoo YI, “Revisiting the Tangpyeong Policy of Yeongjo and Jeongjo: Yi Ik and Hong Daeyong’s Criticism, Jeong Yagyong’s Support, and King Jeongjo’s Response”
- Virginia RUEDA GONZALEZ, Aurelia MARTÍN CASARES, and Antonio J. DOMENECH, “Jamae Nobi: Climate Crises, Forced Migrations, and Self-Sale into Slavery during the Joseon Dynasty”
- Vladimir TIKHONOV, “Kim Jeongha (金鼎夏, 1898–1938), an ‘Unreliable’ Revolutionary”
- Leilei YE, “From ‘Topophilia’ to ‘Topophobia’: Critique of Developmentalism and Ecological Utopian Imagination in Park Wan-seo’s Novels“
- Oul HAN, “The Emotional Institutionalization of Democracy in Korean News Discourse (1990–2025): Implications for AI-Mediated Political Understanding”
Book Notes
- Marion EGGERT, “Politics of Public Opinion: Local Councils and People’s Assemblies in Korea, 1567–1894 by Ingeol Kim”
- Hao LI, “Kim Jeong-ho yeongu [A study of Kim Jeong-ho] by Lee Sang-tae”
- Jooyeon RHEE, “Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics by We Jung Yi”
- Benjamin A. ENGEL, “Reactionary Politics in South Korea: Historical Legacies, Far-Right Intellectuals, and Political Mobilization by Myungji Yang”
