This new revised edition of this popular text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1910 to the present day.

This text provides a balanced history of Korea from 1910 to 2001. It places emphasis on Korea's regional and geographic influences through which Buzo analyzes t

Winner of the 2023 John K. Fairbank Prize and the 2023 James B. Palais Prize. Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, fro

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democrat

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