The Korea Question

What is national identity? This question may seem to be to simple to even bother answering. The easy answer is that national history is the events in a nation’s past that, when put together, unify all aspects of life in that nation. From this rough definition it would make sense that all of the nations in the world have a national identity. However, this question is not as black and white as it may …

…rater it should be looked on as a country rich in heritage and culture. Bibliography Bibliography Ki-baik Lee, A New History of Korea, (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984) Oliver, Robert T. A History of the Korean People in Modern Times (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993) Reischauer, Edwin. A History of East Asian Civilization, vol. I: The Great Tradition (Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) Simons, Geoff. Korea the Search for Sovereignty (St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1995)