Abstract
The objective of the conference Scholar, Monk and Literate: Kim Sisŭp and Frontiers of Korean Culture was to bring together research results of individual researchers and through the collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to further enhance studies of Korean culture and literature on the new level. The subject of the conference, an emblematic figure of the golden age of Korean culture and literature during Chosŏn period, literate and thinker Kim Sisŭp proved to be very good choice as the conference topic.
The conference successfully brought together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars from Western, Central and Eastern Europe, USA, Australia, Russia etc., making research on traditional Korean culture and literature. All involved scholars presented very good papers, which were thoroughly discussed and revised in order to enhance the cohesion of the planned outcome.
Fourteen planned presentations were reduced by the logistic problems of two participants, who could not attend, but Dennis Wuerthner contribution was presented by Marion Eggert in absentia. The quality of all papers presented and subsequent debate assured hosts of the conference that all contributions are worth of publication and the conference thus provided necessary basis for the planned publication and enabled us to draw better plans for the future research on the topic.
Extensive discussion both during and after conference enabled us to set up the feasible timetable for the publication of papers as a monograph in the prestigious Brill publication series "Korean Studies Library." The conference in all points matched and even surpassed our original plan and we are happy that all changes were done for better and not worse.