"Just a few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. The nature and v
A look at Korea, the history of its people, and the country itself examines how far the Koreans have come and where their advances will take them in the future,
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
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fractured, shattere
Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twenti