Please check submissions guidelines below before submitting.
About the Journal
The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is the preeminent journal in its field, publishing articles in all disciplines on a broad range of topics concerning Korea, both historical and contemporary. JKS plays a defining role in the field of Korean studies by encouraging high-quality scholarly discussions that contribute to the field.
Korean studies is a dynamic field, and Korea’s increasing importance in the world has sparked interest well beyond those whose academic work focuses on the region. Korean studies is more than the study of a place; it is an evolving concept shaped out of Korea’s complex postcolonial history and positionality as a divided nation. To that end, JKS encourages essays that engage in broader theoretical and methodological questions that have ramifications in the field of Korean studies and beyond. The journal especially welcomes essays that consider novel transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship that demonstrate the value of this region in East Asia and the world.
Recent topics of general and special issues in the journal include the lived experience of Protestant Christianity in contemporary Korea; the practice of writing and archiving history in Premodern Korea; science and literature in North and South Korea; the Chinese diaspora in North Korea; and LGBTI life in contemporary South Korea. Contributors include scholars conducting transnational work on the Asia-Pacific region as well as on relevant topics throughout the global Korean diaspora.
JKS publishes two issues a year. The journal features general essays, special issues, forums, and book reviews.
Editorial Office
Journal of Korean Studies
Institute for Korean Studies
George Washington University
1957 E St. NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-2775
202-994-6096 (fax)
daveyja@email.gwu.edu
Media: Author Spotlight Interview Series
Submission Guidelines
The JKS editors and editorial board welcome submissions year-round for publication. The JKS is published biannually in the spring and fall.
Thematic issues are confirmed two years in advance. Those who have a publication track record and interest in guest-editing a thematic issue may send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and a sample call for papers or a list of potential conference papers to our editorial office.
Article manuscripts, including notes and bibliography, should be at least 7,000 words and no more than 10,000 words. Please submit a Microsoft Word (not a PDF) copy of the manuscript. Notes should be at the end of the text. For endnote style and documentation format, consult the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010) and the Journal of Korean Studies Style Guide.
The JKS uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To submit an article for review, go to the journal’s online peer-review submission portal.
To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. To help with this preparation, please ensure the following when submitting to the Journal of Korean Studies:
Romanization of Korean words and names must follow the McCune-Reischauer system. Materials that have been accepted for publication or are being considered for publication elsewhere should not be submitted to the JKS.
The blinded manuscript should be free of names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript. There are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process, the key items that need to be observed are as follows:
- Use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007].”
- Cite papers published by the author in the text as follows: “[Anonymous, 2007].”
- For blinding in the reference list: “[Anonymous 2007]. Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.”
- Remove references to funding sources.
- Do not include acknowledgments.
- Name your files with care and ensure document properties are also anonymized.
Editorial Board
| Editor in Chief | Jisoo M. Kim, George Washington University |
| Managing Editor | Jack Davey, George Washington University |
| Book Review Editor | Immanuel Kim, George Washington University |
| Editorial Board |
Donald Baker, University of British Columbia Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University Paul Chang, Harvard University Hyaeweol Choi, University of Iowa Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Carter Eckert, Harvard University Marion Eggert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Valérie Gelézeau, École des hautes études en sciences sociales Richard Roy Grinker, George Washington University Ju Hui Judy Han, University of California, Los Angeles Kelly Jeong, University of California, Riverside David Kang, University of Southern California Eleana Kim, University of California, Irvine Jisoo M. Kim, George Washington University Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Los Angeles Suzy Kim, Rutgers University Nojin Kwak, University of Michigan Jin-kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego John Lie, University of California, Berkeley Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California Andre Schmid, University of Toronto Jungwon Kim, Columbia University |
