Jeong Yong-wook et al.: Issues in the Study of Modern Korean History

The book was designed to re-examinate the achievements and limitations of a large expanded Korean modern history study since the 2000s and to try to find new directions. South Korea's modern history has been at the center of a whole range of controversy over history perception and interpretation, including the conflict in East Asia, the debate in history textbooks, the ending of history. The conflict around these interpretations has been amplified to the extent that it directly affects educational sites and everyday life beyond the political confrontation of the history-aware dimension. Even in this divided political controversy, studies in Korean modern history have steadily grown. Since the 1980s, the barriers to research, such as nationalism and anti-semitism, have been intensified by research in academic circles, which has led to liberation and division, and the development and externalization of modern Korean history through the Korean War and the Cold War. Since then, new attempts in research, methods and data, have been pursued by the various studies that cover economic, social and cultural history. This has led to a massive expansion of the Korean modern history research since the 2000s. But it is not to be seen that positive growth in research has led to quality growth. In various disciplines, such as history, politics, literature, social science, and human science, there has been a dispersal study based on the internal needs of each subject, with a lack of close mutual satisfaction between researchers who have gone beyond the sciences and a lack in shared problem consciousness.

Korean title: 한국 현대사 연구의 쟁점

Korean author: 정용욱 외

Korean publisher: 한국학중앙연구원출판부

ISBN-13: 9791158666866