The journal was founded collaboratively by the Semiosis Research Center at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and the Department of Anthropology and Graduate Program in Global Studies at Brandeis University, with funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea's "Humanities Korea" project
Vol. 1, numbers 1 (Spring 2013); title from journal home page (JSTOR Web site, viewed November 15, 2013)
Vol. 9, numbers 2 (spring 2021) (University of Chicago Press, viewed September 23, 2021)