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The Journal of Humanities published by the Institute for the Humanities at Sungkyunkwan University has devoted itself to promoting research in various academic fields encompassing those of the East and the East—all based on diverse studies conducted at the College of Liberal Arts. Since its inception in 1971, the Journal of Humanities has introduced the outcomes of vigorous research activities in the fields of humanities—including modern history, modern literature, and modern philosophy—based on which it has set the target of reestablishing humanities harmonizing the culture of the East with the Western one and has attempted to conduct in-depth studies of humanities in general and to amalgamate them with other studies—all aimed at re-illuminating humanities as the convergence of the related studies. Having reflected on the limitation of the conventional binary structure in academic history, the Institute for the Humanities aims suggest a new direction for humanities that can overcome the center-periphery model by applying to it the imagination of “access and changes” as well as “cross-cultural research.” The Journal of Humanities has thus functioned as a comprehensive academic publication that can help pursue such a goal of the Institute for the Humanities. Unlike its fellow journals that mainly focus on particular and specified academic fields for publication, the Journal of Humanities not only deals with the whole academic fields of humanities but also covers almost all the areas of profound sciences in order to examine better the universal characteristics of humans and humanities. It has thus not only covered lots of research papers in the fields of humanities—including literature, philosophy, history, cultural studies, and linguistics—but also offered a chance to examine the general trend of humanities in the East and the West by dealing with the papers on the comparative analysis of the East and the West as well as of the regional studies, thereby coping with the ever changing global academic trends of humanities where interdisciplinary communications and exchanges are more needed than ever. The Journal of Humanities also welcomes the contributions of papers in a variety of academic areas including social, natural, and medical sciences if and when they adopt the perspectives—as well as the methodologies—of humanities. This is aimed at promoting research that can overcome the boundaries of academic disciplines, nations, and differences of understanding by focusing on the interdisciplinary communications among different branches of learning as a core value. The Journal of Humanities is actively coping with the changes of the academic trends both at home and abroad in order to play a pivotal role of a leading journal integrating academic disciplines by expanding the horizons of humanities studies.  

In Han Kwon

(Department of Korean Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University )