Category: Research

Kim, Eunjeong (2025) ” The Development of North Korean Educational and Remote Examination Programs: A Journey Towards an Inclusive Society – A Focus on the North Korean Novel The Express Train to the Future” Understanding the intricacies of North Korea’s educational system has always been challenging due to limited available information. However, Choi’s work provides an intricate depiction of North

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Kim, Hanju and Soyoug Kim (2026) “A Study on the Performativity Expansion of VR Immersive Theater ; Focusing on ‘technology-audience-actor’ of The Under Presents: Tempest(2020)” http://dx.doi.org/10.21299/jovc.2026.48.3 ABSTRACT Technological advances have expanded performers’ and audiences’ actions, spawning immersive theatre as a new creative paradigm. This form leverages VR technology, where virtual-space collaboration between audiences and performers shapes the content. Thus, theatre as

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Eom, Soyeon (2025) “The Death of the Robots : A Comparison of Karel Čapek’s 『R.U.R.』 and Nam June Paik’s Robot Art <Robot K-456>” http://dx.doi.org/10.21208/kla.2025.12.56.99 ABSTRACT This study focuses on ‘the death of robots’ and aimed to explore its implications and significance by comparing and analyzing Karel Čapek’s play 『R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)』and Nam June Paik’s robot art <Robot K-456>. To this

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Lee, Jiyoung (2025) “The Visual Strategies of Ieodo by Jane Jin Kaisen as a Form of ‘Becoming-Woman’” https://doi.org/10.36114/JLF.2025.12.26.3.987 ABSTRACT This paper analyzes Jane Jin Kaisen’s multi-channel moving-image installation Ieodo (Island Beyond the Sea) (2024)-presented for MMCA’s Korea Artist Prize 2024-through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming-woman. It examines how the work’s visual strategies-radical slow motion; close-up and a haptic gaze that compose

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Yu, An-Na and Jong-Oh Lee (2025) ” Exploring the Popular Appeal of the Post-Human Artist ‘nævis’: Applying Catherine Hakim’s Erotic Capital Theory “ https://doi.org/10.21184/jkeia.2025.10.19.6.81 ABSTRACT This study explores the commercial potential of “posthuman artists,” a new category of digital performers emerging at the intersection of post-COVID-19 virtual culture and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. Focusing on nævis, a virtual idol

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Koh, Selgie (2025) “Delusions and Hallucinations as Gateways to the Unreality: Focusing on the Short Stories of Juan José Millás” http://dx.doi.org/10.21811/EH.116.199 ABSTRACT Juan José Millás’s work frequently features characters who experience delusions and hallucinations. Delusions, which stem from subjective distortions of reality, are generally classified as either delusions of grandeur or delusions of persecution. Hallucinations, on the other hand, involve

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Ahn, Mikyung and Foong Ha Yap (2025) “A pragmatic analysis of discourse marker 넵 neyp ‘yep’ in Korean computer-mediated communication, Journal of Pragmatics” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.013 ABSTRACT This study explores the diverse functions and contextual use of the Korean discourse marker 넵 neyp ‘yep’ in online conversations, highlighting its adaptation within digital communication contexts. Using data from the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL) Online

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Soh, Jong-Seok and Kye Im Ham (2025) “Empty Signs”  and “The One Who Is Absent”: Émile Benveniste and the Non-Person Problem http://dx.doi.org/10.20865/202510804 ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the formation and development of the “non-person” concept presented in Émile Benveniste’s linguistic theory, as well as the theoretical deepening of that concept. In his 1946 paper “Structure des relations de personne

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Lee, Yunhee (2025) ” Writing and Imagination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Toward Narrative as Dialogic Abduction“ https://doi.org/10.38119/cacs.2025.33.2 ABSTRACT This paper aims to look into possibilities of future writing in the age of artificial intelligence. ‘Who writes’ matters in a technological culture of co-existence of humans and machines. I thus investigate the aligned questions of ‘why we write’ and

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Kang, Byongchang (2025), “Translation Issues of Word Formation with inter-, trans-, and post- in Academic Discourse” http://dx.doi.org/10.22844/its.2025.29.2.31 ABSTRACT This paper examines the challenges and strategies in translating academic terms formed with the prefixes inter-, trans-, and post-. Although translation studies have traditionally focused on units larger than individual words, this study underscores the importance of morphological awareness in translating complex,

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