While popular trends cuisine and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in
some ways to a vast English-speaking world its recorded history of some two millennia remains
unfamiliar to most. Korea: A History addresses general readers providing an up-to-date
accessible overview of Korean history from antiquity to the present. Eugene Y. Park draws on
original-language sources and the up-to-date synthesis of East Asian and Western-language
scholarship to provide an insightful account. This book expands still-limited English-language
discussions on pre-modern Korea offering rigorous and compelling analyses of Korea's
modernization while discussing daily life ethnic minorities LGBTQ history and North Korean
history not always included in Korea surveys. Overall Park is able to break new ground on
questions and debates that have been central to the field of Korean studies since its
inception.
