Scholarship on Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, is split into largely separate strands: history, family stress, food and health, agriculture, and cross-cultural comparison. This study applies text mining to a 39-item bibliographic corpus (1989–2025) to map how those strands relate. Term-frequency, bigram, co-occurrence and TF-IDF analyses of titles show that "Chuseok" appears in 30 of 39 titles (76.9%), that discourse is anchored on "holiday" (20 occurrences) and "Korea" (18), and that "family" (7) and "tradition" (6) are the leading substantive terms. A dictionary-based thematic classification places family, gender and stress studies first (8 items, 20.5%), with history, food and health, agriculture, and cross-cultural comparison tied at 6 items each. The corpus is concentrated in 2015–2024 (26 items), and recent work (2021–2025) shifts toward comparison with China and Japan, historical identity and consumption. The analysis is exploratory: it uses titles only, and the corpus is the reference list supplied for this project, not a systematic sample of Chuseok research.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping accounting, auditing, and financial reporting, yet the literature remains fragmented across outlets, disciplines, and methodological traditions. This study systematically reviews 47 publications from 2023 to 2026 drawn from an initial pool of 49 records. Each study was coded on publication year, research topic, and research method, and a full coding protocol is specified for country, research subject, theory, variables, and findings. The results show rapid growth: 34 of the 47 studies (72%) were published in 2025–2026. Nearly two-thirds of the studies address accounting and auditing in general terms or fraud detection and auditing. Fewer than one in five uses a method that can be identified as a systematic or bibliometric review. Theory use, country coverage, and empirical designs cannot be established from bibliographic data alone and are treated as priorities for full-text coding. The study concludes with a research agenda emphasizing theory-driven, context-specific, and empirically grounded work.

Malaysia's tourism sector has moved from crisis response to strategic repositioning since the COVID-19 pandemic. This article reviews 66 scholarly sources published between 2023 and 2026 that address tourism management in Malaysia. Using a structured thematic classification, the corpus is organised into six domains: (1) post-pandemic recovery, resilience, and governance; (2) destination image, marketing, competitiveness, and visitor experience; (3) smart tourism and digital technologies; (4) social media, user-generated content, and generational markets; (5) sustainable tourism and ecotourism; and (6) niche and special-interest tourism. The review shows that research attention has shifted from pandemic impact assessment toward technology-enabled experience design, sustainability-oriented competitiveness, and market diversification. Three cross-cutting patterns emerge: the growing centrality of memorable experience, satisfaction, and revisit intention as outcome variables; the convergence of digital and sustainability agendas; and a persistent reliance on cross-sectional, tourist-side survey designs. Significant gaps remain in supply-side and community perspectives, longitudinal evidence, evaluation of policy instruments, and the environmental costs of digitalisation. An integrative framework and a research agenda are proposed to guide future work and policy.

Bride price (caili) has become one of the most debated features of contemporary Chinese marriage. Rising payments, a surplus of unmarried men, and public controversy over the "commodification" of marriage have generated a large and multidisciplinary literature. This paper reviews 46 publications from 1990 to 2026 drawn from demography, economics, sociology, gender studies, law and media studies. The literature is organized into five themes: (1) demographic foundations of the marriage squeeze; (2) economic explanations and consequences of marriage payments; (3) gender, family and women's position; (4) historical and cultural transformation of marriage customs; and (5) rural governance, law and public discourse. The review shows that most explanations converge on a market logic in which sex-ratio imbalance and competition for brides raise payments, while newer work emphasizes women's agency, class and regional variation, and the moral politics of bride price. Gaps remain in causal identification, urban–rural and regional comparison, men's experiences, and evaluation of policy interventions. A research agenda is proposed.

Tourism is a strategic sector in India's development agenda, and scholarship on its management has expanded quickly since the pandemic. This paper reviews 52 publications from 2022 to 2026 and organizes them into five themes: (1) smart tourism, artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization; (2) sustainability and overtourism; (3) governance, policy and law; (4) niche and special-interest tourism (adventure, medical, spiritual); and (5) economic performance and hospitality management. The review finds a marked rise in technology-oriented and Viksit Bharat 2047-linked work since 2025, alongside a persistent reliance on conceptual, descriptive and single-region designs. Three gaps stand out: little empirical validation of AI and smart-tourism frameworks, weak integration between sustainability goals and governance mechanisms, and limited attention to workforce readiness and community outcomes. A research agenda is proposed.

Psychological control — the extent to which an organization shapes employees’ inner thoughts, feelings, and self-expression rather than merely their outward behavior — is a pervasive but understudied feature of Korean workplace culture. This study examined how psychological control is experienced by Korean employees, how it is perceived to function (as a management tool) and dysfunction (as a source of psychological strain), and how these perceptions relate to the broader Korean organizational-cultural context. Using a descriptive-correlational design, a structured online questionnaire was completed by 403 Korean employees across a range of occupations and tenure levels. Respondents reported experiencing a high degree of psychological control at work (M = 4.00, “Agree”), most strongly reflected in having sacrificed personal values to meet organizational expectations and having hidden opinions for fear of negative consequences. Respondents also strongly endorsed the dysfunctional consequences of psychological control (M = 4.20, “Strongly Agree”) — increased competition and tension, suppressed emotion, reduced trust, and higher turnover intention — while agreeing only moderately that control brings functional benefits such as focus, responsibility, and efficiency (M = 3.54, “Agree”). Experienced psychological control was significantly and positively correlated with perceived dysfunctional outcomes (ρ = .569, p < .001) and with the perceived cultural normalization of organizational conformity (ρ = .307, p < .001), but only weakly correlated with perceived functional benefits (ρ = .240, p < .001), and functional and dysfunctional perceptions were themselves statistically unrelated (ρ = .080, p = .111). These findings suggest that, in the Korean workplace context studied, psychological control is experienced primarily as a source of strain rather than a motivational tool, and that beliefs about its benefits operate largely independently of beliefs about its costs.