Apr 08, 2025  
Undergraduate Record 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Record 2024-2025

HIEA 2101 - Modern Korean History: One Peninsula, Two Paths


Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course traces Korea’s history from its unified rule under the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) to Japanese colonization (1910-1945) and subsequent division into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea). It examines how processes of reform, empire, civil war, revolution, and industrialization shaped both Koreas’ development and how ordinary people experienced this tumultuous history.

Credits: 3