This is the most reliable and popular history of Korea available in English. The tumultuous developments of the modern era receive the greatest coverage, but th

The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best schol

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One of the first, most widely-read and respected histories of Korea, Ki-baik Lee's Han'guksa Sillon has been translated into English by Edward W. Wagner. A New