The March 2021 issue was prepared as the Journal of Korean Studies found its new home at the Institute for Korean Studies, George Washington University. I worked on this issue with two other team members who joined JKS in the spring of 2020, Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California) as book review editor and Jack Davey (George Washington University) as managing editor. I am so fortunate to have them join the team and look forward to working with them in the coming years.
This issue contains six articles that explore a broad range of themes such as environmental history, subjectivity, collaboration, humanitarianism, and citizenship. One article examines climate crises in the early Koryŏ period and demonstrates how it reinforced state power and ritual practices. Four articles explore marginalized subjects from the colonial to the postcolonial period such as orphans, women, victims of the Korean War, and North Korean migrants. By...
