The environmental history of Korea has generally been neglected until recently. Warfare has repeatedly plagued the peninsula’s history, and we have been waiting for studies of environmental consequences of Korea’s wars to appear. We welcome the May 2018 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies, which has an impressive set of essays covering more than four centuries of its history. This is a major addition to the growing literature on war and environment in Asia.
Journal of Asian Studies, May 2018: War and Environment in Korean History
Introduction to a Forum on War and Environment on the Korean Peninsula, 1598–1965
ALBERT L. PARK
Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684
JOHN S. LEE
Sowing War, Reaping Peace: United Nations Resource Development Programs in the Republic of Korea, 1950–1953
LISA M. BRADY
The Reshaping of Landscapes: Systems of Mediation, War, and Slow Violence
ALBERT L. PARK
Wartime Forestry and the “Low Temperature Lifestyle” in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945
DAVID FEDMAN
Woods and Warfare in Korea and the World: A View from China
MICAH MUSCOLINO