Modern Korean History and Society

* Professor : Tae Gyun Park.

tel: 880-8519,	e-mail: tgpark@snu.ac.kr  office: 140-1 dong 618

* Purpose of this class :

1. To improve student's capability to introduce Korean history, society, and culture into foreigners.

2. To understand and criticize foreign scholars' perspective on Korean history.

3. To examine modern Korean history in order to illuminate historical background of division of the Korean Peninsula, Korea's economic growth since the 1960s and the financial crisis in 1997.

4. To analyze the Korea's position in Far East as well as in the world.

5. To approach understanding of North Korea.

* Class Time : Monday 2:30 - 5:00

* Schedule

Week 1. Park

(1) Class Introduction

(2) Korea's place in the world

Week 2: Joseon Society and China-Joseon Relationship

Palais, Uniqueness

Week 3: An Open Port and Colonization

Week 4: Korean People during the Colonial Period and Independence Movement

Week 5: Liberation and Division of Korean Peninsula

Week 6: Cold War and Even of the Korean War

Week 7: Korean War, from a civil war to international War

Week 8: Mid exam

Week 9: Unfinished War: Unstable Armistice System

Week 10: Economic Growth in South Korea

Week 11: People's Uprising in 1960 and 1980

Week 12: Changes in the Park Chung Hee Era

Week 13: South North relationship in 1960s and 1970s

Week 14: US-Korean relationship

Week 15: Final Exam

* Course Requirements / Grading :

Presentation 20%,  Discussion 20%, Paper 20%, Exam: 20%,. Attendance 20%,