Michael J. Seth has been a professor of world history at James Madison University for more than twenty years. He is the author of several books on Korean history, including A History of Korea, and A Concise History of Modern Korea, A Concise History of Korea, and Education Fever.
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Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was ... SEE MORE