It’s been a long time coming, but finally here – the Korea Journal announces its blog to the Korean Studies community and those interested in a more academic take on Korean society, culture, literature, and history.
This is Michael Hurt (a.k.a. the “Metropolitician”), but right now, I’m writing to you in my capacity as a consulting editor for the UNESCO-published Korea Journal, the oldest English-language academic journal there is, having been in print since 1962. The Journal published quarterly issues organized around a specific theme.
We have covered everything from Korean Buddhism to Korean cyberspace in our issues, and deal with current events, traditional fare, as well as assorted esoterica. If you don’t know about us, you should check out some of the issues.
We are a new blog, and really look forward to developing an active community of people with Korean concerns. Since we have the academic background, resources, and institutional history, we thought it the perfect time to finally join the blogging community and offer ourselves as a resource for your debates, discussions, and deliberation about things Korean.
So come on over to the blog, register to leave comments, and join our growing community of Korean Studies scholars!
어서오세요!
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Best wishes with this endeavour. The Korea Journal is a great resource, what with all the back issues being freely available online!
I’d like to add my congratulations to you, and my hopes that it becomes a useful and popular scholarly blog.
However, if i may ask, you wrote: “the oldest English-language academic journal there is, having been in print since 1962″. Uhmmm, you mean the oldest English-language academic journal *on Korean Studies*, don’t you?
And then what is the Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch’s _Transactions_ journal, published almost continuously since around 1900, chopped liver? It doesn’t “count”, in your esteemed estimation…?
This is a good piece of news, and I really hope it’ll get off like, for example, the anthropology group blog Savage Minds. Not that Marmot Hole’s not a great site, but shouldn’t this be announced ASAP in The List (Korean Studies)? Are you subscribing to the list? If not, I’ll happily post an announcement there.