Gijae Seo

Gijae Seo

KU Research Professor

Modern Japanese Literature and History

Personal Profile

  • International Journal of Diaspora and Cultural Criticism, Associate Editor (2020.07. ~ )
  • The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea, Academic Director (2020.03. ~ 2024.02.)
  • Korean Society of Japanese Language and Literature, General Director (2021.03. ~ 2023.02.)

Research Outputs

  • “Modern Hygiene Exhibition as a Device for Disseminating Public Hygiene Ideas” Japanese Cultural Studies 98, 2026
  • “Koreans at Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters and Wada Noboru” CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION 56(3), 2025
  • “The introduction of modern medicine to Japan and colonial Japanese-style medicine -From the perspective of the formation an elite group of doctors–” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 110, 2024.
  • “Modern Medical and Hygiene Exhibitions of the Japanese Colonial Periods” KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY 33(3) 2024.
  • “Forgotten people: Japanese Leprosy Sanatoriums and the Life of Korean Hansen’s Disease Patients in Japan” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 100, 2024.
  • “Elite Medical Group’s Involvement in Colonial Joseon, and Modern Korean Medical Education: Focused on Sato Kozo and Donginhoe” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 103, 2023
  • “Patients with Hansen’s Disease as Subjects and Objects of Hansen’s Disease Control Policy during the Japanese Colonial Period” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 96, 2023.
  • “Sorokdo Rehabilitation Center and Christianity as a ‘Method’ in the Japanese Colonial Era” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea 97, 2023.
  • “Hansen’s Disease Control Policy and Sorokdo-Koseien seen through the Japanese Colonial Period Media” Japanese Cultural Studies 82, 2022
  • “The formation of policy on Hansen’s disease in Korea, and the history of patients’ self-expression” INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES 23(1), 2022
  • “Shonen Kurabu and the Japanese Attitude Toward War”CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION 52(1), 2021.
  • “The History of Korea-Japan Medical Relations: Through Miki Sakae’s Research and Life” KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY 29(3), 2020.
  • “The War Children’s Literature Thinking of War Responsibility: Based on the Literary Works of Shikata Shin” Japanese Cultural Studies 75, 2020.
  • “The Aim of War Juvenile Literature and Akagi Yoshiko’s Literature” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 84, 2020.
  • “History of Medical Exchange between Korea and Japan as ‘Cultural Mobility’: Through Sakae Miki’s Medical View of the World and History of Korean Medicine and Diseases” International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism 10(1), 2020
  • “The Collective Memory of ‘War’ seen in the Present Day through Harp of Burma” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 87, 2019.
  • “Reader Formation of Shonenkurabu and Sonyeon of the ‘Gaichi’ Joseon” Japanese Cultural Studies 68 2018.
  • “Public Reception and Ethical Selection in Japanese War literature for Children Written by Returnees from War and Colonies” INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF LITERATURE 2(3), 2018.
  • “War-centered Formation and Participation of General Readers in Shonenkurabu” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea 78, 2018.
  • “Mass Media’s Strategy towards Boys, Shonenkurabu’s reader acceptance device and formation of ‘Adventuring Japanese’ statue” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 83, 2018.
  • “Shonenkurabu and Psychological Formation as an ‘Agent of War’” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 76, 2018.
  • “A Modern History of ‘Imperial Medicine’ Surrounding Hansen’s Disease: Strategies to Manage Public Opinion in Modern Japanese Media” KOREAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HISTORY 26(3), 2017.
  • “An Awareness of the Space Called ‘Joseon’ Described Magazines in the Late Japanese Colonial Period : Focused on Tour Joseon and Modern Japan Joseon Edition” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 73, 2017.
  • “The Acceptance and Transformation of “War Stories” : The Rail of Stars” Japanese Cultural Studies 62, 2017.
  • “Two Eyes Looking at the War : Through Twenty Four Eyes and Sister Mong Sil” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 71, 2016.
  • “A Critical Review on Children’s Literature The Rail of stars by Returnee Kobayashi Chitose” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 78, 2016.
  • “Korea Crossing the Border: Overview of Tour Joseon and Modern Japan Joseon edition” Journal of Japanology 43 2016.
  • “Tour Joseon: the Formation of the Hybrid Culture of Japanese Inhabitants in Colonial Korea” Japanese Cultural Studies 59, 2016
  • “Pyongyang as a Tourist Destination and the People of Pyongyang from the Media on Japanese Colonial Era” tong-il-inmunhag 66, 2016.
  • “Concepts of Joseon and Joseon People Represented in 『Tour Joseon』 during the Late Japanese Colonial Period” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 73, 2016.
  • “The Study of Post-War Ethics on Japanese －On The Tsuboi Sakae’s A Motherless Child　and Mother without a child－” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 67, 2015.
  • “SakaeTsuboi’s Twenty-Four Eyes shown anti-war consciousness and the concealed messages” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 73, 2015.
  • “Shiga Naoya Literature and the Youth Ethics in Modem Japan” FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES 37(1), 2015.
  • “1960-70’s Japanese Juvenile Literature and Japanese War Juvenile Literature” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 62, 2014.
  • “Trends of directly after the war’s Japanese Juvenile Literature and <Japanese War Juvenile Literature>” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 69, 2014.
  • “『KankoChosun』, as a place of Colony Culture Exhibition” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 62, 2013.
  • “Reading Environment of Sikata sin’ Childhood and Children’s War Literature” Journal of Japanese Language Education Association 64, 2013.
  • “A War Juvenile Literature and Sikata-sin’s experience of failure in war” Japanese Cultural Studies 46, 2013.
  • “The Device of ‘Adventure’ as Seen Through the Literary World of Shikata Shin – Focusing on 『Kokkyeou』 -” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 55, 2012.
  • “The Meaning of Growth on Sikata-sin’s 『Kokkyeou』” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 59, 2012.
  • “The Representation of ‘Japanese Residents in Korea’ as Presented in 『Kanko Chosen』 – The Distance Between the Japanese of the Peninsula and the Archipelago -” Japanese Cultural Studies 44, 2012.
  • “The Strategic Nature of ‘Literature’ in 『Kanko Chosen』 – Through Kim Saryang’s Novel in the <Completed Novel> Section” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 53, 2012.
  • “Sikata-sin’s literature and children–studies of 『torobo tensi』” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea 54, 2012.
  • “A War, That Meaning and Methodology-Studies of Sikata sin’s 『Mukuge to Mozeru』” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 57, 2012.
  • “Modern tourist journal 『Tourism of Chosun』’s messages for the masses” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea 52, 2011.
  • “A War Juvenile Literature and Sikatasin’ Chosun” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 55, 2011.
  • 80 Years of Liberation: Asking Through War Children’s Literature, Seoul: Bakmunsa, 2025
  • Forgotten People; Leprosy Patients Between Migration and Settlement, Seoul: LP, 2025.
  • Application and Modeling of Mobility Humanities, Seoul: LP, 2024.
  • Mobility Ethos Common Culture, Seoul: LP, 2023.
  • Diaspora and Mobility, Seoul: LP, 2021.
  • Joseon floating in modern tourism magazines, Seoul: LP, 2021.
  • Shikata Shin and War Children’s Literature, Seoul: LP, 2017.
  • Diaspora topography, Seoul: LP, 2016.
  • Imperial Colonial Shouka – A Study of <Shouka> Textbooks from the Japanese Colonial Period, Seoul: J&C, 2014.
  • Dark Night Journey, Seoul: Changbi Publishers, 2013.
  • Chosun Travel, Companying with the Imperialism, Seoul: Somyong Publishing, 2011.
  • The Discovery of Travel: Representation of the Other, Seoul: Minsokwon, 2010
  • Prostitution and Japanese Literature, Seoul: Zmanz, 2008.