The Japanese Language Association of Korea 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.0
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pISSN : 1229-7275
- https://journal.kci.go.kr/jlak
pISSN : 1229-7275
In
1990s when people majored disciplines associated with Japanese language or
culture were hard to find, most of academic activities in Japanese language,
Japanese literature, Japanese culture, Japanology, and Japanese education etc.
were centered around those few people. However, the number of people who
majored in diversified and specialized disciplines relevant to Japanese
language or culture reached more than 1,500 to date. “The Japanese Language
Association of Korea” has been cope with changes in the environment of
researches and education actively, and led the foundation of the “Journal of
the Japanese Language Association of Korea (日本語学研究)”
in December 1999, as a publication of professional academic journal on the “Japanese
Language and Education of the Japanese Language”.
Upon
publication of the first issue of the journal, the efforts to raise its domestic
status among academic societies as a professionally differentiated academic journal
on Japanese language have been made, thereby the journal was appraised as
candidate for registration in the National Research Foundation of Korea in
2005, and became registered journal in 2009, as a center of development for
researches in Japanese language. Further, the number of annually published
issues of the journal has been increased from three to four since 2014 to
expand opportunities for contributions of members of the society supporting the
activities of the society with public favor. The efforts, resulted in
contributions of diverse and qualified papers supporting the journal to be able
to take place as a representative professional journal for studies on Japanese
language, and further, they drive forward the journal to become as a global one
for which several projects are organized and promoted.