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Studies Main Navigation Main Content Sidebar Register Login Toggle navigation Current Archives Announcements About About the Journal Submissions Editorial Team Privacy Statement Contact Search Aim and Scope Studies (formerly known as IJEAS : International Journal of East Asian Studies) aims to provide a platform for exchanges of ideas related to the East Asian region with particular emphasis on Japan, China and Korea. It offers informative and insightful multidisciplinary discourse for academics, policymakers and students alike. The result is a provocative exploration of the most pressing East Asian political, economic and social challenges of our time. WILAYAH is a blind peer-reviewed publication by the Department of East Asian Studies , Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences , University of Malaya , Malaysia. eISSN: 2785-941X / 2462-2257 Print ISSN: 2232-0679 Publication Type: Electronic and Print Publication frequency: 1 time, per year. (In March every year starting 2021. Previous years published in every December) Journal Website: ijeas.um.edu.my Publisher: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia Enquiries: ijeas@um.edu.my Indexing and Abstracting: MyJournal ; CrossRef ; Directory of Open Acess Scholarly Resources (ROAD) Announcements SPECIAL ISSUE ON 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAPAN STUDIES PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA 2023-07-26 Special Issue on Covid-19 and Japan 2021-04-07 Call For Papers 2021-04-07 Current Issue Vol. 13 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue on BTS and Regular Issue CHAPTER 1 - 6 ARE SPECIAL ISSUE ON BTS CHAPTER 7 - 11 ARE REGULAR ISSUE ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES Published: 31.03.2024 Articles INTERMEDIALITY IN FANDOM CULTURE: THE IMPACT OF BTS ON KOREAN LITERATURE READING HABITS: FOCUSING ON INDONESIAN ARMY Nining Setyaningsih, Eva Latifah 1 - 17 C1: INTERMEDIALITY IN FANDOM CULTURE BTS’S MAGICAL SPELL IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE POISONED CHALICE OF FREEDOM THAT I SWALLOWED KNOWINGLY Kwangsik Kim 18 - 29 C2: BTS’S MAGICAL SPELL THE PSEUDO HAPPINESS AS SONG STRATEGY’S SIMULACRA VERSUS PANOPTIC: BTS’S SONGS AND BTS MEMBERS Fitria Angeliqa, Fizzy Andriani 30 - 50 C3: THE PSEUDO HAPPINESS TRANSITIONING FROM THE STAGE TO THE BARRACKS: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF MILITARY SERVICE ON BTS ARMY’S CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Franchesca Nicole Collantes, Guanlun Hu, Paula Sharmaine Delos Santos, Isabelle Santiago, Kristine Joy Ramos 51 - 78 C4: TRANSITIONING FROM THE STAGE GOING BEYOND GEO-CULTURAL PROXIMITIES: DISCOVERY OF CULTURE PATTERNS AND MALAYSIAN BTS FANDOM Yuslinda Mat Yassin, Baby Anusha Nur Mohamed Thaheer, Abdul Aziz Azizam , Melina Mahpuz 79 - 108 C5: GOING BEYOND GEO-CULTURAL LOVE YOURSELF: A SUCCESSFUL TRENDING CAMPAIGN IN BUILDING SELF-ACCEPTANCE OF BTS ARMY Nurul Hamizah Mohamed, Nurul Hazwani Mohamed 109 - 121 C6: LOVE YOURSELF CENTRAL ASIA PLUS JAPAN DIALOGUE: ITS ROLE IN JAPAN’S STRATEGY IN CENTRAL ASIA Olga Dobrinskaya 122 - 136 C7: CENTRAL ASIA PLUS JAPAN DIALOGUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SSW NO.2 RESIDENCY STATUS: A CASE STUDY OF CHINESE MIGRANT WORKERS IN JAPAN Sabrina Nur Raudha, Kurniawaty Iskandar 137 - 156 C8: OPPORTUNITIES FOR SSW NO.2 RESIDENCY STATUS MIGRATION DECISION-MAKING OF INDONESIAN WOMEN MARRIED TO JAPANESE MEN Trivinia Athina Sari, Kurniawaty Iskandar 157 - 170 C9: MIGRATION DECISION-MAKING KESAN KONTEKS SEJARAH DAN PEMIKIRAN KONFUSIANISME DINASTI CHOSON TERHADAP NILAI DAN NORMA KONTEMPORARI KOREA SELATAN Soo Kee Tan, Nur Alam Hamzah 171 - 188 C10: KESAN SEJARAH DAN PEMIKIRAN KONFUSIANISME IKIGAI AMONG JAPANESE Noor Syahirah Sazali, Rohayati Paidi 189 - 203 C11: IKIGAI AMONG JAPANESE View All Issues Guidelines Manuscript Submission Instruction For Authors Copyright Notice Ethics and Malpractice Information About the Journal Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Current Issue Copyright Submission of a manuscript to the WILAYAH implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of a thesis or report, or abstract); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors. 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