Category: Research

Kim, Eunjeong (2024) “ A Trend of K-Culture Appeared in Asian BL (Boy’s Love) Works – Focusing on Thai Dramas”, Institute of Foreign Literature Studies , Volume 93 pp. 173-198 http://dx.doi.org/10.22344/fls.2024.93.173 ABSTRACT BL is a genre rooted in the Japanese young ladies’ comics of published in the 1970s Japan. Comics depicting homosexuality were imported from Japan to Korea under the

Kang, Ji-In, Hanbeom Jung, A Young Kwon and Iksoo Kwon (2023) “Meaning extensions of internet memes A case study of the ‘If 2020 was a(n) X’ meme”, Review Of Coginitive Linguistics, Volume 21 Issue I, pp. 178-209 https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/rcl.00131.kan ABSTRACT This paper explores the constructional properties of internet memes by conducting a case study of If 2020 was a(n) X (IYWX) memes within

Lee, Seryun (2024) “ Digital intimacy performed in celebrity voice tweets: forging authenticity amid context collapse”, Continuum, pp. 1-15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2024.2314196 ABSTRACT Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has been used as one of the primary media used for communication and intimacy between celebrities and their geographically dispersed fans. Within online environments, where the boundaries of diverse social contexts are fuzzy,

Kim, Eunjeong (2023) The dream of turning “the entire people into resources for science and technology” in Kim Jong-un’s era, KONKUK UNIVERSITY Humanities Research Institute , vol., no.96, pp. 105-142 https://doi.org/10.21185/jhu.2023.12.96.105 ABSTRACT In this study, we attempt to derive the differences between existing and current educational models, with a focus on North Korea’s higher education system. To this end, we

Lee, Sieun and Eom, Soyeon (2023) Melancholic Sensibility and Expression of Bae Un-Seong’ Self-portrait, The Korean Literature And Arts, vol., no.48, pp. 431-459 http://dx.doi.org/10.21208/kla.2023.12.48.431 ABSTRACT Despite his pioneering career as ‘Korean first artist to study in Europe’, Bae Un-Seong was later discussed due to the inconvenience of being one of the artists who defected to North Korea. The purpose of

Eom, Soyeon (2023) A Study on the Exhibition Directing and Viewing Pattern in the Digital Age Museum -Focusing on <A Room of Quiet Contemplation> of the National Museum of Korea-, Korean Society Of Museum Studies, vol., no.46, pp. 107-131 10.22884/joksms..46.202312.005 ABSTRACT Humanity in the 21st century is in the midst of a transformation of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution (Second Information

Lee, Jiyoung (2023) Reassembling Fan Activism – Fandom Identity as Material Assemblage and Strategies of Identity Maintenance -, Research Institute of Creative Contents, vol., no.29, pp. 7-44  http://doi.org/10.34227/tjocc.2023..29.7 ABSTRACT Through the case of BTS’s fandom “A.R.M.Y.,” this study reconfigures the existing linear discussion of fandom identity and fan activism by centering on incoherence, and looks at fan activism as actual

Ahn, Mikyung and Foong Ha Yap, (2023) On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction, Text & Talk, 43(5): 671-695 https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0217 ABSTRACT Pragmatic markers are linguistic resources, many of them highly ubiquitous, that provide speakers with a means to display their stance toward a given proposition and, at the same time, toward

Ahn, Mikyung and Foong Ha Yap, (2023)  ‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive, Lingua, 296(0) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103609 ABSTRACT This study investigates how social forces and language-internal mechanisms interact to give rise to stance markers that reflect the speaker’s subjective and intersubjective stance. Using data from the NIKL (Motwuuy) Spoken Corpus and Daily Conversation

Kwon, Yoonkyung and Jong-Oh, Lee (2023) 「Two Images of Danchi Housing in Japanese Women’s Manga after late 2010s」, 한국과 국제사회 [Korea and Global Affairs], 7(5): 61-86 https://doi.org/10.22718/kga.2023.7.5.003 ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the two images of ‘danchi’, the Japanese high-rise apartment complexes depicted in women’s manga from the late 2010s onward. Over the years, danchi has been significant settings in