A New History of Korea

by Ki-Baik Lee

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Discusses Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960.

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SeoulUSA 6 reviews

"A New History of Korea" only covers Korean history through the April,1960 Revolution. Although Korea's history is long and vast prior to 1960, a history of Korea missing the last 50 years relegates this book to an ancient Korean history reference ONLY. We already have books in our library that are more comprehensive and less dull than this one (encompassing the ancient and the modern histories of Korea), so I don't recommend this unless you are trying to fill out a bibliography. Nothing bad about this, just dull and dated.

Sep 29, 2011

sungene 549 reviews

Understandably so, but somewhat biased history (anti-Japan) of the modern period. Detailed timeline of kings and dynasties is useful.

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