HIST 246 Pre Modern Korea

According to legend the Korean people were born from the union of the son of the "Lord of Heaven" and a bear-woman with a good measure of garlic and mugwort aiding the process. From these mythic origins tracing roughly 2000 years of Korean history we will end with the forced opening of the Korean peninsula and people in the mid-nineteenth century. The main objective of this class is to impart an understanding of the major social cultural political and intellectual developments that occurred along the way.