New publication: The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements

The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements

Edited by Andrew David Jackson. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Date of Publication: 2022

Abstract:

Since President Kim Young Sam’s segyehwa drive of the mid-1990s, South Korea has become a model for successful globalization. In contrast, North Korea is commonly considered one of the least internationally integrated countries. This characterization fails to account for the reality of the two Koreas and their global engagements. This collection departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact of international influences on the society, culture, and language of both North and South Korea. The opening essay situates the chapters by highlighting some significant contrasts and commonalities between the experiences of North and South Korea’s history of engagement with the world beyond the Peninsula. The chapters explore both the longer-term historical influence of Korea’s international contacts as well as specific Korean cultural, linguistic, and social developments that have occurred since the 1990s demise of the global Cold War and greater international integration

Korea Research Centre paper series Vol. 1 (2021)

The UWA’s Korea Research Centre’s paper series vol. 1 is out. You can click here to download a copy. 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing is inviting book proposals in Modern East Asian Religion and Culture

The CSP Studies in Modern East Asian Religion and Culture (MEARAC) is a multidisciplinary book series of religion and related communities in the period of modern (from 1500 CE) or contemporary East Asia.

Asian Studies Review welcomes a review of “Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia”

Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave, 2018) by Kyunghee Pyun and Aida Wong includes very interesting chapters on East Asian (i.e. not Southeast or South Asian) — including Korean — fashion. Anyone interested in reviewing this book for Asian Studies Review is encouraged to send an email to the publisher, and get in touch with ASR editor A/Prof. Hundt.

The Journal of Korean and Asian Arts (KAA) is seeking submissions for its inaugural issue.

Call for Submissions: Journal of Korean and Asian Arts Vol. 1

• Subject fields: Art Studies, Performance Studies, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies

Deadline (extended): 

• Abstract: February 15th, 2020
• Full Draft: February 29th, 2020