Korea summer 2025:
Discussing Korean Literature in the "Post-Nobel Era"

"Among sinologists the study of Japanese is now _de rigueur_, and surely none would dispute the usefulness of Japanese as a sinological tool."
(Durrant 1979: 273f. @ doi.org/10.2307/823513)

Many thanks to Nikolai Johnsen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS University of London) for giving a guest talk on "Korean memories of wartime forced labour and the 'history war'" in Copenhagen last week. If you are looking for a really good presenter on this topic, reach out to him. 🤩

#AAS2025 draws to a close today, but our conference discount lasts through April 10! Save 30% when you use code AAS25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #AsianStudies
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And that brings our time in Columbus to a close! Big thanks to @aasasianstudies.bsky.social and all #AAS2025 attendees for a great conference.

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See you next year!

Last moments from #AAS2025 Thanks to @thekpopprof.bsky.social for making sure that we always have a nice group photo! ❤️ Big shout out to the wonderful organizers of #AAS2025 !

Treasure book hunt 🤩 on Day 2 of #AAS2025! Dennis' opus: 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘗’𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘺 𝘠𝘪 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘰 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/and-so... Martin and Vladimir's 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴
𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

Some moments from my day 1 at #AAS2025 😊Thanks to Shiho Takai and Youlim Kim for organizing the panel "Mothers imagined" with a focus on Japanese and Korean literature. And a book panel on "Civic activism in South Korea". Also check out our video on the book: youtu.be/0RZwa4MJnc8

Will democracy survive? When I had the chance to talk about Seungsook Moon's new book with the author and Yoonkyung Lee, I didn't expect the last question of the interview to be so timely. But here we are...Enjoy!
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"Literature dominated the top eight spots of the most borrowed books at the SNU library."
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"'Young readers in their 20s have been exposed to digital content since childhood, so they find printed text refreshing and stylish,' said a publishing industry representative."
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New video on MIGRATION & DIASPORA in ASIA with Markus Bell, Jamie Coates and MA students from Asian Studies in Copenhagen!

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Please also check out the subtitles in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, produced by our wonderful students themselves!!!

What a nice surprise! 😊 I was just wondering when my book will appear and realized that it's OPEN ACCESS perhaps only today! So, BE QUICK and download if you like monkey or transmedia storytelling. 🐒❤️ brill.com/display/titl...

For your consideration, a poster promoting vasectomies in a Seoul hospital.
Very interesting font and style here, I think.
I would dig an oral history of how this poster came to be . . .
Oh, and better say linguistic landscape to make this searchable!