Download or read book Korea: The Past and the Present (2 vols) written by and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1982, the British Association for Korean Studies has published nine sets of Papers from 1991 to 2005, the outcome of conferences, study days, workshops. The themes of Korea past and Korea present were selected to give the editors and BAKS council the widest choice of options in terms of scholarship, subject matter, interest.