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BOOK REVIEW ESSAY. A Brief History of Korea. Isolation, War, Despotism, and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient but Divided People. By Michael J. Seth. North Clarendon, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2019. 288 pages, ISBN: 978-0804851022, Paperback.
This is a revised, updated version of my booklet, Brief History of Korea, published in 1994 by the Korean Educational Development Institute in Seoul. It is an outgrowth of my lectures to English-speaking students, teachers and writers who have had little or no prior exposure to Korean history and culture.
the Korean War was first and foremost a civil war, although the Fellows naturally brought their own take to the debate: • It seems inevitable that there would have been serious bloodshed with or without outside
In early 20th century Japan invaded Korea and northern China. In its effort to eradicate Korean culture and identity, Japan in 1938 banned the use of the Korean language in schools, forced Koreans to abandon Korean names and change them to Japanese names.
development of South Korea with Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Tai- wan, and explains how South Korea’s success was unique in many ways, especially because of the devastation from the Korean War and the fact
13 Αυγ 2022 · He explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and still little-known cultural heritage, showing how this ancient, culturally and ethnically homogeneous society was wrenched into the modern world, ultimately to be arbitrarily divided into two opposed halves after World War II.
In it, I discuss four issues from recent history that are still hotly debated in South Korea (collaboration with the Japanese, the conduct of the Korean War, the Park Chung Hee years, and the Kwangju massacre) and why there are such different interpretations of those important episodes.
