Given the national and international vibrancy of Korean popular culture, the Association for Asian Studies publication Education About Asia is publishing a two-part special series that will examine the richness and diversity of a variety of activities that interest ordinary people. The focus of the winter 2009 special series is on film in Korean popular [...]

A new on-line, peer-reviewed journal, Korean Histories, will be launched at Leiden University October 1, 2009, funded by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies. Korean Histories will focus on historiography as a social process in Korea, will be devoted to research that heavily relies on sources other than the conventional written historical sources, [...]

The on-line version of the latest volume (32) of Korean Studies, the journal of the University of Hawai’i Center for Korean Studies, is now available through Project MUSE, the on-line repository of humanities and social sciences journals.
Access to the table of contents and article abstracts is open to all at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/korean_studies/toc/ks.32.html. Access to the full [...]

Papers, Essays and Reviews (P.E.A.R.), a new interdisciplinary English-language journal of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, in conjunction with the Center for International Studies, is now accepting submissions from graduate students for its first issue. The periodical publication includes varying disciplines and methodologies, but each issue will attempt to be thematic. The inaugural [...]

The editors of Acta Koreana invite scholars working in the field of Korean music to submit articles for possible inclusion in Acta Koreana, vol. 12, no. 1 (June 2009), which will be a theme issue on Korean music.
Subjects and themes of articles are not limited to Korean traditional music, but may also include topics and [...]

The editors of Korea Yearbook – Politics, Economy, Society, published since 2007 by Brill (Leiden and Boston), are soliciting proposals for articles to be included in the 2009 edition of the yearbook. The publication is edited by Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner, and Susan Pares.
The Korea Yearbook consists of four concise overviews of [...]

The editors of the Asian Journal of Communication invite the submission of manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal titled “Hybridization of Reality: Re-Imagining the Communication Environment in Korea.”
Guest editors for this issue are Hye-ryeon Lee (University of Hawai’i at Manoa); Hyoknam Kwon (Chonbuk National University); and Eungjun [...]

The Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies (SIKS) has announced its 2008 Publication Grant for Korean studies. The Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies was established in May 2007 in the Academy of Korean Studies with the support of the Republic of Korea Ministry of Education and provides publication grants for English translations of “100 Korean Classics” [...]

Contributions are being sought for a planned interdisciplinary volume on death, mourning, and the afterlife in Korea to be published at a major academic press. The volume editors expect to cover both premodern and modern aspects of death and particularly welcome contributions in the following areas:

Geomancy and the selection of grave sites
Mourning rites for women [...]

The editors of the Korea Yearbook – Politics, Economy, Society (Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner, and Susan Pares) are calling for papers for the 2008 edition of the yearbook. Published since 2007 by Brill (Leiden and Boston), the Korea Yearbook is a hybrid publication consisting of both concise overviews of domestic and external [...]