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 | Cheehyung Kim, Assistant Professor University of Missouri While a war raged on the peninsula, the North Korea began, in November 1951, sending its children and young adults abroad, a portion of them orphans. The first group of went to Hungary, an (More) |
| Sora Kim, PhD Candidate Seoul National University In 1897, the last king of the Chosŏn dynasty inaugurated a new era. The country was renamed the Korean Empire (Taehan cheguk), and King Kojong assumed the title of emperor. At the same time, sever (More) |
| John Lee, PhD Candidate Harvard University The era of Mongol Yuan domination in the Korean peninsula, stretching from 1271 to 1368, lasted less than a century. The relatively short span, however, would witness the integration of the Korean penins (More) |
| Yuanchong Wang, Assistant Professor University of Delaware The article examines Qing China’s policy toward Chosŏn Korea between 1882 and 1895, when both countries struggled to define their time-honored and hierarchical Zongfan (a.k.a. tributary) (More) |
| Sang-ho Ro, Assistant Professor Ewha Womans University In this paper, I will examine how modern state and society in Korea closely cooperated with empires in order to dominate Mother Nature. Especially, my interest is the historical formation of (More) |
| Jeongmin Kim, Ph.D. Candidate New York University This paper examines South Korea’s wartime black market that was formed, and worked, in connection with Japan during the Korean War. In particular, I trace two movements that took place across Japa (More) |
| Bridget Martin, PhD Candidate University of California, Berkeley A US military installation currently undergoing expansion in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, will in the next two to three years become the largest overseas US military base in the worl (More) |
| Dajeong Chung, Visiting Assistant Professor The College of William and Mary This paper begins by arguing that US humanitarian food assistance to South Korea was born out of the failure of earlier US Cold War policy. Previously, the United States (More) |
| Nan Kim, Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee On South Korea’s Jeju Island, the recent completion of a contested naval base’s construction has marked a time of transition for the anti-base movement there, whose members have come (More) |
| Jenny Wang Medina, Ph.D. Columbia University The construction of “global” Korean literature and culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries sought to transcend the geographic boundaries of South Korea while simultaneously attempting to refo (More) |
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