Publications in Korean Studies 

The Center for Korean Studies has been actively publishing high-quality scholarly works in Korean studies. Through generous support and funding for publications, the Center has developed strategic partnerships with leading academic institutions and publishers to advance major publication initiatives.

Its principal publication projects include the Korean Studies Book Series, the SUNY–SNU Textbook Series, the Wonhyo Translation Project, and the Korean Classics Series. Most recently, the Center completed a decade-long publication project on the works of Dasan Jeong Yak-yong, culminating in a six-volume series published by Oxford University Press.

 

 


Analects of Dasan: A Korean Syncretic Reading (Vol. I-VI) 

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With support from the Academy of Korean Studies, the Center launched a major research and translation project on Dasan Jeong Yak-yong's
Old and New Commentaries of the Analects. Completed over a decade (2013–2026), the project resulted in a six-volume English translation, written by Dr. Hongkyung Kim and published by Oxford University Press.

Widely regarded as Dasan's masterpiece and the culmination of his scholarship on the Confucian classics, Old and New Commentaries of the Analects is one of the most significant achievements of Korean Confucianism. By making this monumental work accessible to an international audience, the project has substantially advanced the global study of Korean intellectual history and Confucian philosophy.

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Launched in 1997 in partnership with Dongguk University, the Wonhyo Translation Project is producing the first complete scholarly English translation of the extant works of Wonhyo (617–686), Korea's most influential Buddhist philosopher and a major figure in East Asian Buddhism. Published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, the multi-volume series includes critical introductions and annotations that provide foundational scholarship for English-language readers. The project brings together leading Buddhologists from four countries and continues to make Wonhyo's thought accessible to a global audience.


The Korean Studies Book Series at the State University of New York Press is one of the few academic book series dedicated exclusively to Korean Studies and is among the most active in the field.

  • Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment, Sung Bae Park (1993)
  • The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought, Michael C. Kalton, et. al. (1994)
  • The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok, Young-chan Ro (1995)
  • The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T'oegye and Yi Yukgok, Edward Y. J. Chung (1995)
  • Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra, Young-ho Kim (1996)
  • The Korean Economy: A Visions for the 21st Century, Hyung-Koo Lee (1996)
  • Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism, Mark Setton (1997)
  • Christ and Ceasar in Modern Korea, Wijo Kang (1997)
  • Kim Songsu: Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur, Choong Soon Kim (1998)
  • Modern Korean History, edited by Wayne Patterson and Yur-bok Lee (1998)
  • The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment with Commentary by the Son Monk Kihwa, Charles 
    Muller (1999)
  • The Korean Language, edited by Ik Sop Lee and S. Robert Ramsey (2000)
  • Understanding Korean Politics, edited by Chung-in Moon (2001)
  • Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea, David Chung (2001)
  • The Dharma Master Chongsan of Won Buddhism, Chongsan (2012)
  • One Korean's Approach to Buddhism, Sung Bae Park (2009) 

Established in 1994 through a partnership with Seoul National University, the SUNY–SNU Textbook Series was designed to produce 11 original textbooks across a range of Korean Studies fields. Seoul National University led the writing and editing, while the Center oversaw the English translation and publication. Funded by Seoul National University, the Korea Foundation, and the Daesan Foundation, the series has published The Korean Language (2000) and Understanding Korean Politics (2001) through SUNY Press, with additional volumes developed as part of the project.