OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Korean Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
International Early Korean Studies: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities	15
Bracing for Disorder: The Red Turbans and Chosŏn-Ming Relations	5
Beyond Double Identity, beyond Periphery: Chinese Ethnic Korean Poetry as Borderland Literature	3
Playing with Power: American Businesspeople, Diplomacy, and Electricity in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Korea	2
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands	2
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965	2
Paper Bomb Warfare: Propaganda Leaflets about Consumerism in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961–1979)	2
Social (Im)mobility and Bureaucratic Failings: Family Background and theSŏngbunSystem in North Korea	1
Dilemma and Detours, Making the Invisible Visible via Gender, Sensibility, and Corporality: Cultural Politics and Women’s Practices in Late Chosŏn	1
Editorial Note	1
Reading O Changhwan Translating Sergey Esenin in Seoul, 1946	1
North Korean Calligraphy: Gender, Intimacy, and Political Incorporation, 1980s–2010s	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction	1
Memory, Archives, History: The Intellectual Legacies of Carter J. Eckert	1
Systematized Hierarchy of the Korean Studies Space: Examining “Profstudents” in Southeast Asia	0
Editorial Note	0
The South Korean Military Ideological Complex: Transcendent Nationalism in Military Moral Education	0
Coethnic, Multicultural, or Cosmopolitan? Cultural Citizenship, Enfranchisement, and the Contested Category of Korean-Chinese in Globalizing South Korea	0
Obliterated Materiality: The Supremacy of the Book and Chosŏn Funerary Texts	0
Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle Against Evolution	0
Dedicating the Immortals’ Peach to Your Majesty: The Courtesan Performances for Lady Hyegyŏng in 1795	0
Editorial Note	0
Gender Differences in Daily Time Use: Trends and Educational Differentials	0
Editorial Note	0
Blog Serials: Digital Literature, Seriality, Readerly Performativity	0

Ssial , Jeremiad, and Civil Religion	0
The Post–World War II Rise of AmorePacific: Women’s Labor, South Korea’s Cosmetic-Product Industry, and the Park Chung Hee Regime of 1961–1979	0
Editorial Note	0
Courtesans in Military Uniforms: Martial Spectacles by Cross-Dressing Courtesans of Ŭiju in the Late Chosŏn Period	0
Negotiating the Colonial Dilemma Through Science Fiction: Translating Jules Verne in Early Twentieth-Century Colonial Korea	0
Education, Employment, Family Formation Behaviors, and the Gender Health Gap: A Cross-National Comparison of Korea, the United States, and Finland	0
JaHyun Kim Haboush’s Cultural Journey through History	0
Transcending Pseudohistory: Korean Early Asia and Discourse Analysis	0
Toward an Archival and Post-Nationalist History of Korea: A Roundtable on the Scholarly Impact of Carter Eckert	0
Editorial Note	0
Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	0
History in Two Keys: The Battle of Pochonbo and the State Myth Surrounding It	0
Text, Materiality, and Enshrinement Practices: Visual Culture of a BuddhistDhāraṇīin Late Medieval Korea	0
Between Eco-Governmentality and Forest Management Cooperatives: Reinterpreting South Korean Reforestation in the 1970 and 1980s from the Local Level	0
Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation	0
The Apotheosis of Mountains: Sacred Space, Symbolic Landscape, and National Consciousness in Ch’oe Namsŏn’s T’aebaek Poetry	0
Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema	0
William Franklin Sands in Late Chosŏn Korea: At the Deathbed of Empire, 1896–1904	0
Editorial Note	0
Taejabo: Remediations and Materiality of South Korean Wall Posters	0
Yi Tŏngmu and Women’s Cooking in Late Chosŏn Korea	0
(Modern) Palace Women in Colonial Korea	0
Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance	0
Politics of Literary Materiality: Yun Ihyŏng and Postmillennial South Korean Literature	0
Archaeological Translation: How to Translate Diasporic Korean Literature	0
Highways to Coal Mines: South Korea’s Highland Road Construction for Household Fuel Transition, 1945–1962	0
Time Divide, Gender Divide: Gender, Work, and Family in South Korea	0
Family as Allegory: Yŏm Sangsŏp’s Works in the Korean Liberation Space, 1945–1948	0
City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism	0
The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea	0
Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China	0
“A Great Invention of the East, Unsurpassed in History”: Tŭngsap’an Mimeography in Korea, 1910–1945	0
Voluntary Outsiders in Their Anthropocentric Nation: Korean Vegan Youth Navigating between National Ruins and Transnational Mobilities	0
Cleared for Takeoff: The Economic and Environmental History of Incheon International Airport in 1990s South Korea	0
Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea’s American Century	0
Defender of the Nation, Champion of Science: The Agency for Defense Development as a Nexus for the Technological Transformation of South Korea	0
Interpretive Praxis Under Pax Americana: Paik Nak-chung’s Reading of D.H. Lawrence in 1980s’ South Korea	0
Suspicious Deaths: Contested Female Suicides in the Late Chosŏn Period	0
Anger in the Late Chosŏn Era through The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng	0
The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea	0
Faire du terrain en Corée du Nord: Écrire autrement les sciences sociales [Doing fieldwork in North Korea: Writing social sciences differently]	0
Cattle, Viral Invasions, and State-Society Relations in a Colonial Korean Borderland	0
Korean Pop Culture Beyond Asia: Race and Reception	0
The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post–Cold War	0
Pending: The Temporality of Crisis and Normalcy during COVID-19 in South Korean Queer Activism	0
Editorial Note	0
A Study of the Relationship Between Middle-Class Identification and Welfare Attitudes in Korean Society: The Role of Homeownership and Asset Accumulation	0
Linguistic (Im)mobility and the Transformation of Korean Language in Ch’ae Mansik’s Late Colonial Literature	0
North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970	0
Becoming Yugajok: From Bereaved Families to Social Activists in South Korea	0

Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul	0
Gender, Language, and Emotions: Conversations with Ja	0
Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea	0
Roles and Challenges of Legal Officials During King Chŏngjo’s Reign	0
The Checkpoint of History: Testimony and Intertextuality in the Documentary Literature of the Korean War, 1960s–1970s	0
Kiji kukka ŭi t’ansaeng: Ilbon i ch’irŭn Han’guk chŏnchaeng (The Birth of a Base State: Japanese Experiences in the Korean War)	0
Translated Poetry in Younghill Kang’s The Grass Roof and the Tradition of Inset Poetry in Pre-Modern Korean Fiction	0
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965	0
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965	0
Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea	0
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965	0
The Comparative and Shared in North Korean History: Andre Schmid’s Response to the Roundtable Reviews of North Korea’s Mundane Revolution	0
Kim Chŏnghŭi and His Epigraphic Studies: Two Silla Steles and Their Rubbings	0
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday	0
Traffic in Asian Women	0
Infrastructural Dilemmas and State Capacity in Late Chosŏn Korea: Carts, Embassies, and Local Society	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Crossing Boundaries in Modern Korean Literature and Culture	0
Movie Minorities: Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema	0
Sewŏl Activism and the Changing Tenors and Tactics of Political Action in South Korea	0
The Sacred Text and the Language of the Leader: “Cultured Language” and the Rhetorical Turn in North Korea	0
Shadow Labor in Care Services: Why Do South Korean Women Care Workers Work Such Long Hours and Get Paid So Little?	0
Editorial Note	0
Who Is Afraid of Techno-Fiction? The Emergence of Online Science Fiction in the Age of Informatization	0
Voices Inscribed by Land: P’ansori Mountain Study and the More-than-Human World	0
Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia	0
Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads	0
Romanticism Strait: Coloniality and Liminality in Im Hwa’s Maritime Poetry	0
Consumption, Class, and the Cosmopolitan in Twenty-First-Century South Korean Culinary Dramas	0
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965	0
The Magical Agency of Parameters as Intent and Meaning: The Translation Application in Decision to Leave	0
Milan Kundera’s Poetry in North Korea and Socialist World Literature in the 1950s	0
Against the Chains of Utility: Antiutilitarian Sacrifice in Cho Sehŭi’s A Little Ball Launched by the Dwarf	0
Guest Editor’s Introduction	0