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)
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.
- Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra, Translated with an introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr.
- Wonhyo's Philosophy of Mind, Edited by A. Charles Muller and Cuong T. Nguyen
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)