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This study marks the 25th anniversary of The Jungang English Language and Literature Association of Korea by reassessing the discursive field shaped by its journal, The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature. Employing network analysis and visualization—core methods in digital humanities—this paper maps the co-occurrence networks of keywords extracted from article titles published between 2000 and 2024. The resulting synchronic-diachronic reconstruction illuminates the journal’s evolving intellectual landscape. In linguistics, English-language education has gradually eclipsed core linguistics, yet articles written in English increasingly foreground the latter, with phonology and phonetics showing a marked upward trajectory. Literary studies, once dominated by feminist and socially critical research, show a partial depoliticization as formalist inquiries— especially into narrative techniques—gain prominence in recent years. These patterns reveal the intricate, shifting interrelations that constitute contemporary Korean scholarship in English language and literature. By restoring this dynamic field of academic discourse, the paper offers an intellectual historical perspective on Korean English studies. The present study lays a foundation for a broader understanding of scholarly discourse in the Korean humanities.