I am pleased to announce the renewal of our official journal. Since its launch in 1995, the Korean Journal of Interventional Radiology (KJIR) has played an important role in disseminating cutting-edge techniques and scientific achievements. However, being published only in Korean, it faced certain limitations in reaching the global community. In addition, the absence of an independent website and dedicated resources restricted submissions, with publications concentrated toward the year’s end. Most importantly, the lack of a formal peer-review system limited the journal’s value as a platform for scientific exchange.

I fully support the decision of the Korean Society of Interventional Radiology to transform KJIR into an English-language journal with its own website. The valuable academic achievements of KSIR and members will be permanently preserved in the KJIR archives and widely disseminated across the globe. I am confident that these changes will enable KJIR to contribute more meaningfully to the global advancement of interventional radiology.

The renewed KJIR will publish case reports, original articles, review articles, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses in the field of interventional radiology. It will be issued biannually, and all manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-review process.

I sincerely hope that the scientific innovations shared through KJIR will benefit not only the Korean medical community but also the worldwide interventional radiology society. I warmly encourage my colleagues to submit high-quality original research and to join us in this new chapter of our journal.

Warm regards,

Editor-in-Chief

Jin Wook Chung

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