Category: Research

An Analysis of Narrative Types and Strategies in the North Korean Literary Series: Immortal History, Immortal Guidance, and Immortal Journey This study examines the construction of the “Suryong” narrative across generations by analyzing the North Korean literary series: Immortal History, Immortal Guidance, and Immortal Journey. By investigating the 4.15 Literary Production Unit, the research identifies a significant generational shift among

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Kyung-Nan Koh (2026) “The Semiotic Growth of Plant Photos” This paper explores how everyday practices of plant care and digital snapshot sharing contribute to the continuation and reconnection of social relations among a small group of plant enthusiasts. Specifically, the study focuses on moments in which individuals connected by a shared interest in plants exchange snapshot photos depicting stages of

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Jong-Seok Soh (2026) “From Enunciation to Writing: The Displacement of the Regime of Reference in Émile Benveniste’s Dernières leçons” This article examines a significant epistemological shift in Émile Benveniste’s theory of reference, as revealed in the posthumous Dernières leçons (1968–1969). In Problèmes de linguistique générale, reference is strictly defined as a semantic property of the sentence, anchored in the instance

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Jin Young, Lee (2026) “Conditions of Algorithmic Semiosis – Meaning Grounding, Explainability, and Distributed Responsibility” This article examines algorithmic semiosis by asking under what conditions algorithmic outputs can participate in socially meaningful semiosis. Rather than treating algorithmic systems as interpreters in the classical semiotic sense, the article introduces the sign-operator as a semiotic-functional role through which such systems select, arrange,

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Hanju, Kim (2026) “A Reflection on ‘Mechancal Persona’ in the Age of AI Technology” This study argues for the need for distancing-based cultural practices to overcome the dehumanization resulting from technological development. The 2023 case of a man who committed suicide after becoming engrossed in a conversation with an AI chatbot illustrates the danger of the Eliza effect, in which

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Byongchang, Kang (2026) “Artificial Communication and Semiosis in Large Language Models (LLMs) From the Perspectives of Esposito’s Communication Theory and Peircean Semiotics“ This paper redefines large language models (LLMs) not as “artificial intelligence” but as systems of “artificial communication,” and analyzes their operative mechanisms and inherent limitations through the concept of semiosis drawn from the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce.

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Jiyoung, Lee (2026) “Conditions of the Voice Across Generations: Reflexive Unerasure, Nancian Looking, and Affiliative Postmemory in Voices of the Silenced“ This paper examines Voices of the Silenced (2023), co-directed by Zainichi Korean filmmaker Park Soo-nam and her daughter Park Ma-ui, investigating the formal and ethical mechanisms through which the film transmits historical memory to audiences with no direct experiential

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Eom, Soyeon (2026) “Narrative of Exhibit Animals in the Digital Age : Focusing on the Panda Fu Bao“ This study aims to explore the implications of the narrative of zoo exhibit animals, focusing on the narrative of the panda Fu Bao, through image telling based on digital-age visual information within the macroscopic context of posthumanism, which reconstructs the relationship between

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Ahn, Mikyung (2026) “Evaluative and interactive functions of retrospective epistemic causal markers: A discourse grammar analysis of ‘no wonder’ expressions from a cross-linguistic perspective“ This study explores the diachronic development and discourse-pragmatic functions of ‘no wonder’ expressions within the Discourse Grammar framework. It shows that ‘no wonder’ expressions often undergo cooptation — a shift from a nominal predicate embedded in sentence grammar

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Lee, Jongoh (2026) ” Little Fresh Meat, Masculinity, and Governmentality in China: A Case Study on Chinese Serial Drama The Rational Life“ This study analyzes the Chinese drama The Rational Life (2021) through the lens of neo-socialist governmentality to examine how the representation of “little fresh meat” (xiaoxianrou) masculinity is coordinated and integrated between market desires and state governance objectives.

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