As a follow-up to Park (2025), this study examines Korea-published academic journal articles included in the Bibliographic Database of Research on Japanese Language and Japanese Language Education operated by the National Institute for Japanese Langua...
As a follow-up to Park (2025), this study examines Korea-published academic journal articles included in the Bibliographic Database of Research on Japanese Language and Japanese Language Education operated by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). The dataset consists of 5,980 Korea-published academic articles indexed in the database up to the year 2023. Rather than reanalyzing or reclassifying the content of individual articles, this study adopts the research field classification metadata assigned by the database as the unit of analysis and examines the overall composition and proportional distribution of research fields. The results indicate that Korea-published research articles show a relative concentration in the fields of Japanese language education, grammar, linguistics, communication, and vocabulary/terminology, while a non-negligible number of articles are also distributed across other research fields. This study does not aim to identify research trends directly in the Japanese language and Japanese language education in Korea itself. Instead, it is positioned as a foundational meta-level study that clarifies how Korea-published research is classified and organized within a Japanese specialized bibliographic database.