Michael J. Seth is a professor of history at James Madison University, USA, where he teaches World and East Asian history. His research has focused mostly, although not exclusively, on Korea. He has lived and worked in Korea and travels frequently to the country. His published works include: Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (2002), A Concise History of Korea (Fourth Edition, 2024), Korea: A Very Short Introduction (2020), and Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States (2021), Korea at War (2023).
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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