2025, Vol., No.98

Methodological Approaches to and Research Agendas for Writing the Cultural History Modern Korean Bookstores - Focusing on Bookstores as Intellectual Spaces -

Cheon, Jung Hwan | 2025, (98) | pp.5~38 | number of Cited : 0

Cultural Politics of Large Bookstores and the Performativity of Women-Readers in the 1970s and 1980s - With Focus on Chongno Book Center -

Park, Suk Ja | 2025, (98) | pp.39~75 | number of Cited : 0

Limitation and Potential of Asian Cultural Cooperation in the 1970s - Korean and Japanese Cultural Policies and Perceptions of Asia Through the ACCU Co-Publication Project -

An, Hea Yun | 2025, (98) | pp.77~120 | number of Cited : 0

This paper aims to analyze Korea’s and Japan’s perceptions of Asia and cultural diplomacy strategies through the Folk Tales from Asia series published by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) in the 1970s. The Folk Tales from Asia, a collection of folktales from 18 Asian countries, was ostensibly a universalist project by the ACCU to address the “book famine” in the Asian region and promote cultural solidarity. However, it functioned as a complex arena where Cold War ideological rivalries and the national interests of individual countries were intricately interwoven. The ACCU’s Asian co-publication project, centered on Japan, has hitherto been perceived merely as an international cultural cooperation initiative, thus failing to receive sufficient scholarly scrutiny. This paper analyzes the background of the ACCU’s establishment and UNESCO’s regional strategy for Asia, examining the editorial directions and cultural-political messages embedded in the Korean and Japanese editions of Folk Tales from Asia, based on the premise that Cold War cultural diplomacy operated within the tension between universalist ideals and national interests. Japan utilized the ACCU as a strategic tool to rehabilitate its negative post-war image and secure cultural leadership in the Asian region, thereby revealing a hierarchical perception that positioned itself as a “developed country” while classifying other Asian nations as “developing countries.” In contrast, South Korea, under the Park Chung-hee government’s Yushin (Revitalizing Reform) regime, selected works that accentuated ethnic sentiments and traditional values in alignment with its “national culture” policy. However, South Korea’s deliberate exclusion of works from socialist countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos demonstrated the constraints of Cold War ideology. The ACCU’s co-publication project explored the potential for cultural solidarity among Asian nations while simultaneously exposing the limitations of Cold War frameworks and developmentalist paradigms, thereby representing a cultural practice with inherently dual characteristics.

Formation of Cartoon Clubs and Romance Comics - Focusing on Renaissance -

Seo, Eun Young | 2025, (98) | pp.121~152 | number of Cited : 0

Focusing on Renaissance, a romance comics magazine, this paper traces the background and development of the comics clubs that emerged alongside the growth of the Korean cartoon industry. In this process, it examines the role of the magazine Renaissance as a major publishing outlet. It also aims to examine what discourses female creators and readers formed through Renaissance as a forum for public discussion, and to trace the process of establishing themselves as cultural subjects based on discourses. Cartoon clubs were formed starting with the KWAC (Korea Woman Amateur Comics) in 1982. Cartoon clubs have the characteristics of the gender of women, the genre of romance (or pure love) comics, and the generation of twenty-somethings (often referred to as the emotional generation or Generation X). Korean cartoon clubs have the special characteristics of linking generation and gender. Meanwhile, the cartoon clubs pursued the most important goal of fostering cartoonists’ creativity for their professional debut and emphasized individuality and experimentality. This was a struggle of cultural subjects who distrusted and criticized the existing comics market and sought to reform its culture through their own creations. In addition, the goal of incorporating the cartoon culture they created into the mainstream and spreading it across the country was interpreted as a subversive and political movement. Therefore, the cartoon clubs and the publication of literary coterie magazines were the spaces of resistance for female creators and consumers to gain a foothold in the male-centered cartoon market. In addition, it was also a cultural practice to transform the low-class and male-dominated cartoon market into high-quality and artistic cartoon culture and comics art. Meanwhile, Renaissance brought together the emotional generation, women, and amateur coteries at colleges against the established cartoon industry and led them to a single forum that fostered an emotional community.

‘Garbage Amnesia’ and Literature as Counter-Memory - Changes in the Waste Management System and the Memory Culture of the Consuming Public (3) -

Lim, Tae Hun | 2025, (98) | pp.153~189 | number of Cited : 0

The waste disposal systems of modern consumer society are more than mere technical procedures for hygiene and efficiency; they function as social mechanisms that systematically erase specific memories. This study conceptualizes the repetitive social and institutional mechanisms producing forgetting alongside waste as ‘garbage amnesia.’ It posits an ‘infrastructure of forgetting’—a system wherein memory is externalized through the intricate interplay of technology, social structures, and cultural rhythms—as the underlying condition for this collective symptom. The relationship between these concepts illuminates the operational dynamics of contemporary memory politics. A multifaceted theoretical inquiry elucidates how this ‘infrastructure of forgetting’ contributes to both sensory erosion and ethical desensitization. Drawing on theories such as the technological reconfiguration of memory (Stiegler), social classification and symbolic exclusion (Assmann, Douglas), and the deliberate production of ignorance (agnotology), the analysis explores how waste disposal systems intersect with the logics of technology, space, and capital to construct forgetting. Referencing the work of Heather Rogers, the study argues that landfills have advanced beyond technical and aesthetic concealment to enter the most sophisticated stage of forgetting under the rubric of ‘resource recovery.’ Building on this analysis, the study proposes a role for literature in resisting this systematic forgetting and suggests new directions for research. The novels of Jung Yeon-hee and Kang Young-sook excavate the concealed layers of waste, revealing the materiality of memories buried within. Essays by Han Seung-tae and Hong Jae-hee capture paradoxical moments when apparatuses designed to facilitate forgetting—such as septic tanks and sewers— are transformed into repositories of memory. The study concludes by positioning literature as a critical mode of intervention within the infrastructure of forgetting.

On the Grammatical Status of Auxiliary Predicate ‘Chiuda ’

Kim, Se Rin , Jeong, Hui Chang | 2025, (98) | pp.191~219 | number of Cited : 0

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