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1st year : Korean History Through World History
  • Modern East Asian Society and Christianity
    • 1. Prologue: Two Travel Missions to Beijing in 1790
    • 2. Part 1, Acceptance and Transformation (1): Political and Intellectual Background That Enabled the Acceptance of Christianity in East Asia
    • 3. Part 1, Acceptance and Transformation (2): Writing and Dissemination of Classical Chinese Books on Western Learning
    • 4. Part 1, Acceptance and Transformation (3): Conversion or Religious Hybridization?
    • 5. Part 2, Forgotten Histories (1): the Imjin War and Christians
    • 6. Part 2, Forgotten Histories (2): People in the Shadows
    • 7. Part 3, History of Persecution (1): Comparison of the Early Persecutions
    • 8. Part 3, History of Persecution (2): the Chinese Rites Controversy in East Asia
    • 9. Epilogue: End of the Accommodation Policy of the Jesuits
    • 10. Special Conversation: Recalling the Jesuit Adaptation
  • Globalization and History of Korean Popular Culture in modern times
    • 1. Historical Development of Korean Popular Culture
    • 2. Modern Transformation of Korean Society and the Birth of the modern Korean Public
    • 3. Introduction of Modern Media and Popular Culture in Colonial Cities
    • 4. “Chōsen Boom” in Imperial Japan
    • 5. The Korean War and the Popular Culture of Postwar South Korea
    • 6. Light and Shadow of Popular Culture in the Age of Development Dictatorship
    • 7. Daily Life of the “Winter Republic” and Cultural Control
    • 8. Culture and Daily Life during the Fifth Republic: Control and Appeasement
    • 9. Changes in Korean Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization and Consumer Culture
    • 10. K-Culture and the Global Culture Market
  • The Age of the Empire, from the Scenes
    • 1. Changdeokgung on January 16, 1864: Heungseon Daewongun’s Politics and Policies
    • 2. Ganghwa Island, February 1876: What Happened Before and After the Treaty Signed between Korea and Japan
    • 3. Near Sungnyemun on July 19, 1882 and the Central Post Office, December 4, 1884
    • 4. The White House, Washington D.C. on January 17, 1888: the Yangjeol System
    • 5. Gobu County of Jeolla Province on February 17, 1894: the Peasant War of 1894 and the First Sino-Japanese War
    • 6. Gwanghwamun on February 11, 1896 and the Round Mound Altar on October 12, 1897: the Gabo Reform and the Gwangmu Reform
    • 7. Jongno Street, Seoul on October 29, 1898: the Independence Club and the People’s Meeting
    • 8. Gyeongungung on November 17, 1905: the Russo-Japanese War and the Making of Joseon a Protectorate
    • 9. Outside of the West Gate of Daegu on February 21, 1907: the National Debt Repayment Movement
    • 10. Seoul on August 29, 1910: the Last Moment of the Korean Empire
  • The Formation of the Global Cold War System and the Two Koreas
    • 1. Incomplete Liberation and the Origin of Division
    • 2. Liberation and the Formation of Political Forces of the Korean Peninsula
    • 3. The Rule of the US and Soviet Armies and the Issue of Establishing a New State
    • 4. Intensification of the Conflicts Surrounding the Establishment of a New State
    • 5. The Last Efforts to Prevent Division
    • 6. Socioeconomic Changes under the US Military Government and during the Early Years of the Republic of Korea
    • 7. The Democratic Reform of North Korea and the Construction of a People’s Democracy
    • 8. How the Korean War was Formed
    • 9. The Course of the Korean War and Its Consequences
    • 10. The Cold War and the Two Koreas
  • The Hideyoshi Invasion of 1592, the Manchu Invasion of 1636, and the Regional Order of East Asia
    • 1. Joseon and the International Order of Northeast Asia in the 16th century
    • 2. Outbreak of the Hideyoshi Invasion of 1592 and the Early Stage of the War
    • 3. Turning the War Situation and the State of a Lull
    • 4. Failed Negotiation, the Second Invasion, and the End of the War
    • 5. Aftermath of the War and the International Order of East Asia
    • 6. Joseon and the International Order of Northeast Asia in the Early 17th century
    • 7. The First Manchu Invasion of 1627
    • 8. The Second Manchu Invasion of 1636
    • 9. Dilemma of Namhansanseong - The Problem of the National Identity of the Joseon Dynasty
    • 10. Aftermath of the Machu Invasions and the Reorganization of the International Order of Northeast Asia
  • East Asian History Seen through Diseases and Healthcare
    • 1. Diseases and Civilizations
    • 2. Genealogy of Modern Hospitals
    • 3. Modern Medical Education and Licensure
    • 4. Smallpox and Modern States
    • 5. Cholera and Modern Civilization
    • 6. Plague and Imperial Medicine
    • 7. State Public Health System
    • 8. Local Healthcare System
    • 9. Public Health Medical System of Colonial Korea
    • 10. Contemporary Society and Psychologically Infectious Diseases
  • Marginal Men and Outsiders: The encounter of Western people and Koreans
    • 1. Meeting between Westerners and Koreans before the Port-Opening Age (1)
    • 2. Meeting between Westerners and Koreans before the Port-Opening Age (2)
    • 3. International Circumstance and the Role of Westerners (1) Western Advisors Employed by the Joseon Government
    • 4. International Circumstance and the Role of Westerners (2) Diplomats and Journalists
    • 5. Western Travelers during the Port-Opening Age and Their Impression on Korea (1)
    • 6. Western Travelers during the Port-Opening Age and Their Impression on Korea (2)
    • 7. Role of Western Missionaries during the Port-Opening Age (1) Establishment of Hospitals, Schools, and Churches
    • 8. Role of Western Missionaries during the Port- Opening Age (2) Knowledge and Politics
    • 9. Koreans Who Went to the West (1)
    • 10. Koreans Who Went to the West (2) World, the West, and Korea
  • The Agricultural History of the Korean Peninsula and East Asia
    • 1. Introduction: Importance of Agricultural History in East Asia
    • 2. Basic Knowledge of Agricultural History of East Asia
    • 3. Agriculture in North China: The Origin of East Asian Agriculture
    • 4. Development of Paddy Farming in Southern China
    • 5. Roots of Agricultural History of the Korean Peninsula
    • 6. The Late Joseon Period as a Turning Point
    • 7. Paddy-Farming-Centered Agricultural History of Japan
    • 8. Agricultural Books in East Asia
    • 9. Agriculture, the State, and the Society
    • 10. Agricultural History after the Early Modern Period
  • Confucianism and Buddhism within the Intellectual Network of East Asia
    • 1. Emergence and Development of Confucianism
    • 2. Buddhism and East Asia
    • 3. Buddhism in Ancient Korea
    • 4. Buddhist Culture during the Goryeo Dynasty
    • 5. Conflicts Between Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism
    • 6. Indigenization of Neo-Confucianism and the Confucian Society
    • 7. Confucian Politics in Joseon
    • 8. Spread of and Edification through Confucianism
    • 9. Social and Cultural Meanings of Confucian Values
    • 10. Confucianism and Buddhism after the 19th Century
  • Introduction to Korean History from a Global Perspective: Korea and East Asia
    • 1. Interlocking Relations of East Asia and Glocal Perspectives or Sensibilities
    • 2. Structure and Actors in the Interlocking History of East Asia (1): The Imjin War and the Qing Invasion of Joseon
    • 3. Structure and Actors in the Interlocking History of East Asia (2): The Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese colonization of Korea
    • 4. Structure and Actors in the Interlocking History of East Asia (3): The Korean War
    • 5. Structure and Actors in the Interlocking History of East Asia (4): Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between South Korea and China
    • 6. Border-Crossing Culture (1): Discussing East Asia through Food
    • 7. Border-Crossing Culture (2): Discussing East Asia through Youth
    • 8. Future History of Interlocking East Asia (1)
    • 9. Future History of Interlocking East Asia (2)
    • 10. Epilogue: Rethinking Korean History from a Glocal Perspective
2nd year : Korean History Through Life and Culture
  • Modern and Contemporary Korean History Seen through Gender
    • 1. Introduction: Looking at Modern and Contemporary Korean History Through Gender
    • 2. Women and the Family of Joseon under Japanese Colonial Rule (1910s - 1930s)
    • 3. Women during the Pacific War and the Period of Total Mobilization (1930s -1940s)
    • 4. Comfort Women, Victims Forced to be Silence (1940s)
    • 5. Women and the Korean War (1940s -1950s)
    • 6. The US-Korea Relations, the US Forces in Korea, and Women (1950s -1970s)
    • 7. Modernization, Women’s Identity, and the Meaning of Family (1960s -1970s)
    • 8. Modernization and Female Laborers (1970s – 1980s)
    • 9. Development of Women’s Movement and the Comfort Women Movement (1990s)
    • 10. Changes in Gender and Family in the Korean Society (1990s – 2000s)
  • Birth of the Examination People
    • 1. Birth of the Examination People
    • 2. State Examinations 1
    • 3. State Examinations 2
    • 4. Entrance Examination
    • 5. Foreign-Language Examination
    • 6. Politics of Examinations 1
    • 7. Politics of Examinations 2
    • 8. Examinations and Meritocracy
    • 9. Globalization of Examinations
    • 10. Rethinking Examinations
  • Oral History: New Approaches in Writing a Contemporary Korean History
    • 1. What is Oral History
    • 2. Oral History Research Conducted in Korea
    • 3. The Jeju April 3 Incident and the May 18 Democratization Movement
    • 4. Experiences of National Division and the Korean War
    • 5. Refugees and Resettlement after the Korean War
    • 6. Violations of Human Rights under the Social Control during the 1960s and 1970s
    • 7. The Sabuk Uprising by Miners and the Female Concentration Camps in the 1980s
    • 8. Act of Speaking by the Families of the Victims of MV Sewol
    • 9. Preparation for Oral Storytelling
    • 10. Methodology of Oral History and Conclusion
  • Lives and Dreams of Female Intellectuals in Modern Korea
    • 1. Na Hye-seok and the Challenges of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 2. Kim Il-yeop and the Dream of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 3. Choe Jeong-hui and the Literature of Modern Female Intellectuals (1)
    • 4. Bak Hwa-seong and the Literature of Modern Female Intellectuals (2)
    • Heo Jeong-suk, Yi Hwa-rim, and the Ideology of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 6. Jeong Jeong-hwa and the Behind-the-Scenes Activities of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 7. Kim Hwal-ran, Go Hwang-gyeong, and the Education of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 8. Bak In-deok, Im Yeong-sin, and the Ambition of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 9. Choe Eun-hui and the History of Modern Female Intellectuals
    • 10. Cheon Gyeong-ja and the Art of Modern Female Intellectuals
  • Greatest Rivalries in Korean History
    • 1. Introduction & Confrontation among the Three Kingdoms (King Seong vs. King Jinheung)
    • 2. Formation of the Northern and Southern States (Kim Chun-chu vs. Yeon Gaesomun)
    • 3. Buddhism in Korean History (Wonhyo vs. Uisang)
    • 4. Founding of Goryeo (Wang Geon vs. Gyeon Hown)
    • 5. Society of Mid-Goryeo (Myocheong vs. Kim Bu-sik)
    • 6. Fall of Goryeo (Choe Yeong vs. Yi Seong-gye)
    • 7. Confucian Rule during Early Joseon (Seong Sam-mun vs. Sin Suk-ju)
    • 8. The Imjin War (Yi Sun-sin vs. Won Gyun)
    • 9. Factional Politics during Late Joseon (Song Si-yeol vs. Yun Jeung)
    • 10. Isolationist Policy and the Enlightenment Policy during the Final Years of Joseon (Daewongun vs. Queen Myeonseong)
  • Traitors of Korean Religion: Writing a History of Religion
    • 1. History of Religions and Interrogation Records
    • 2. Chronology of the Representative Religious Rebellions of Late Joseon
    • 3. Religious Rebels
    • 4. Prophecies and Prophetic Texts
    • 5. Forms and Variations of the Prophecy of the True Man’s Appearance
    • 6. Divinations and Spells of the Rebellions during the Joseon Dynasty
    • 7. Rituals of the Rebellions during the Joseon Dynasty
    • 8. Cursing the King
    • 9. Disciple of Maitreya the Daughter of the Dragon King
    • 10. Views to Change the World
  • Social Status System of the Joseon Dynasty and Yangban
    • 1. Social Status System of the Joseon Dynasty
    • 2. Social Status System Operated in Early Joseon
    • 3. Collapse of the State Corvee System and the Deterioration of the Commoner and Base People System
    • 4. Newly Emerging Social Class of Scholar-Officials in the 1520s
    • 5. Seize of Power by the Neo-Confucian Literati and the Spread of the Neo-Confucian order
    • 6. Scholar Officials as the Defenders of the State
    • 7. Establishment of the Ruling Structure of Scholar-Officials
    • 8. Differentiation of the Scholar-Official Class and the Adjustment of Hierarchy
    • 9. Issues on the Offspring of the Concubines of Yangban
    • 10. Emergence of a Society Led by Powerful Families and the Historical Consequences in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • History of Family, Sex, and Love
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Family, Marriage, and Sex during the Ancient Period of Korea
    • 3. Royal Family and the Family System during the Goryeo Period
    • 4. Sex and Marriage of the King during the Joseon Period
    • 5. Social Status System and the Marriage and Divorce of the Joseon Dynasty
    • 6. Love and Sexual Crimes during the Joseon Dynasty
    • 7. Family Law and Family Culture in Joseon
    • 8. Inheritance, Clan Genealogy, Household Register, and Family Conflicts
    • 9. Marriage and Family in the Modern Period
    • 10. Family in the Contemporary Period and Changes in Marriage
  • Myths, Legends, and Folktales: Prototypes of Ancient Korean Culture
    • 1. Beginning of Korean History: Myth of Dangun
    • 2. Beginning of Ancient States: Founding Myths of the Three Kingdoms
    • 3. Ancient Kings, Having Strange and Mysterious Nature
    • 4. Buddhism, a Foreign Religion, Accepted
    • 5. To Make a Buddha’s Land
    • 6. Love and Marriage of the People Living in the Ancient Times
    • 7. Filial Piety, the Practice of Love Toward One’s Parents
    • 8. Loyalty Led the Growth of Ancient States
    • 9. Death, the Other Side of Life
    • 10. Ancient Customs and Cultural Activities
  • Introduction to Global Korean History: Lives of Kings and Queens
    • 1. Who is Considered a King
    • 2. Good Rulers and Bad Rulers: How Political Systems Define the Qualities of a King
    • 3. Founding of Joseon, Confucianism as the Ruling Ideology, and a King
    • 4. Ascension of the Kings of Joseon and Its Meaning
    • 5. Daily Routine and Tasks of the Kings of Joseon
    • 6. Life of the Queens of Joseon: Queen’s Role and Duty
    • 7. Politics of the Neo-Confucian Ruler 1: Benevolent Governance and Tax Collection
    • 8. Politics of the Neo-Confucian Ruler 2: Neo-Confucian Rulers and the Meaning of Kingship
    • 9. Governance of the Queen
    • 10. Epilogue: Politics of Kings and Queens
3rd year : Korean History Through Space and the Environment
  • Korean Diaspora, Its history, and Transnational Koreans
    • 1. History of Korean Diaspora and Transnational Koreans
    • 2. Koreans Living in the United States
    • 3. History of Koreans Living in China
    • 4. Koreans Living in the Area of the Former Soviet Union
    • 5. Koreans Living in Japan
    • 6. Korean Immigration and Resettlement to Brazil and Germany during the Cold War
    • 7. Other Migrations of Koreans: Overseas Adoption, Defectors from North Korea, and Defectors from South Korea
    • 8. Transnational Koreans and Global Citizens
  • Formation of Contemporary Korea Through Everyday Life Culture
    • 1. Introduction of Modern Everyday Life Culture
    • 2. Everyday Life Culture after Liberation up to the 1950s and 1960s
    • 3. Everyday Life Culture during the 1960s and 1970s
    • 4. Everyday Life Culture in the 1970s
    • 5. Everyday Life Culture in the 1990s
    • 6. Everyday Life Culture during the 1990s and 2000s
    • 7. Diachronic Changes in Culture by Topics
    • 8. Everyday Life Culture in North Korea
  • History of Women’s Work in Korea during the 20th Century: Reality, Resistance, and Space
    • 1. Modern Changes and Women’s Social Advancements in the Joseon Society
    • 2. Japanese Colonial Rule and the Emergence of Working Women
    • 3. The Korean War and the Birth of the Female Entrepreneur
    • 4. Maids, Busgirls, and Factory Girls
    • 5. Labor Movement of Female Factory Workers during the Industrialization Period
    • 6. Unofficial and Invisible Labor of Married Women during the Industrialization Period
    • 7. Female Office Workers and the Elimination of Gender Discrimination in the 1980s
    • 8. Foreign Exchange Crisis during the 1990s and Changes in Female Labor
  • Hanok, Traditional Korean Architecture
    • 1. What is Hanok
    • 2. Structure of Hanok
    • 3. Residential Culture and Hanok
    • 4. Definition and Formation of Hanok Villages
    • 5. Buddhist Architecture, part 1
    • 6. Buddhist Architecture, part 2
    • 7. Confucian Architecture
    • 8. Other Forms of Hanok Architecture
  • Traditional Korean Medical Care and Birth, Aging, Illness, and Death
    • 1. Disease, Concerns and Korean Medical History
    • 2. Ancient Korean Medical Care and Examples of East Asian Medical Knowledge Formation
    • 3. Medical Care System and Foreign Exchange of Medical Care in the Goryeo Period
    • 4. Medical Care System and Neo-Confucianism in the Joseon Period
    • 5. Epidemics during the Premodern Era and Countermeasures
    • 6. The Birth, Aging, Illness, and Death of the People of Joseon
    • 7. Medieval Korean Medical Books that Stood up to Diseases
    • 8. Increased Production of Medicinal Ingredients and Representative Medical Scholars in Joseon
  • Urban Space and Residential Culture in Korea
    • 1. Cities and Hanok in Korea
    • 2. Influx of New Cultures and the Creation of Hybrid Cityscapes
    • 3. Modern Urbanization and the Changes in houses
    • 4. Modern Urbanization and Apartments
    • 5. Industrialization and Housing Supply
    • 6. The Changes in Cities and Housing Brought About by War
    • 7. Urban Commercialization and the Residential Style That Combines Commerce and Residence
    • 8. Urban Spaces and Housings That Contain Layers of Memories
  • History of Maps and Calendars
    • 1. History of Maps and Calendars
    • 2. Development of Maps: Chinese Maps, part 1
    • 3. Development of Maps: Chinese Maps, part 2
    • 4. Old Korean Maps
    • 5. Time and Calendars
    • 6. Elements Constituting the Calendar
    • 7. Shiling, Yueling, and Shiri jinji
    • 8. Use of Time in Each Realm of the Society
  • Local History, Its Understanding and Methology
    • 1. Local History and the Places in History
    • 2. New Historical Approaches and the Cultural Turn of Local History
    • 3. Local Administrative Districts and Homogeneous Local Cultural Spheres
    • 4. Multilayered and Intersecting Microscopic Experience: A Dal-ri Survey
    • 5. Hybridity of place and the Reproduction of Local History
    • 6. Local Society and the History of the Suppression and Conflict
    • 7. Jangseongpo, Harpoon Guns, and the Collaboration of Camera
    • 8. Expansion of Local History and Its Methodology
  • Birth of K-Food: A History of Korean Food in the 20th Century
    • 1. Prologue
    • 2. Dietary Life during the Open Port Period
    • 3. Dietary Life during the Colonial Period
    • 4. K-food in Wartimes
    • 5. Dietary Life during the Cold War
    • 6. K-food in the Period of Condensed Economic Growth
    • 7. Dietary Life in the Era of Globalization
    • 8. Epilogue
  • History of Urban Development and the Lives of the Ruled Class of Seoul during the 1960s and 1970s
    • 1. Expansion of Seoul in the Early and Mid-1960s and People’s Desire to Go to Seoul
    • 2. Residential Areas and Residences in Seoul in the Early and Mid-1960s
    • 3. Urban Development in Seoul since 1966
    • 4. Reorganization of Seoul’s Urban Center from 1966 to 1972
    • 5. The Lives and Living of the Ruled from 1966 to 1972
    • 6. Development of Gangnam and the Real Estate Myth from 1972 to 1978
    • 7. Growth of the Middle Class and the Apartment Culture from 1972 to 1978
    • 8. Hierarchization of Urban Space of Seoul and the Urban Lower Class from 1972 to 1978