The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes in all disciplines on a broad range of topics concerning Korea. One of the main contributions of JKS is to introduce new scholarship that brings diverse themes, theories, geographies, temporalities, and cultures to study Korea and the world. Authors of JKS grapple with the parameters of the field and the meaning of Korea. Although the aim is not to formulate a fixed meaning, what is clear is that scholars are continuously expanding epistemological boundaries and breaking new ground in Korean studies.
Drawing on multiple disciplinary trajectories, the spring 2023 issue comprises seven articles and four book reviews. The articles in this issue explore the dynamics of broad political, social, and cultural issues—rinderpest and cross-border control, Romanticism and nationalism, national defense and technology, the developmental state and utilitarian ideology, class system and state-building, veganism and transnational mobility,...
