title: A New History of Korea
author: Ki-baik Lee
description: Professor Lees work is exceptionally detailed and covers not only the political, social and economic history of Korea, but integrates developments in the arts, science and technology through the ages. Its wealth of material and comprehensive coverage make it an excellent textbook for the study of Korea.<b><i></i></b><b><i>History</i></b><br /><br />Wagner must be lauded for bringing to the English reading community this comprehensive, precisely translated, well-crafted, and meticulously indexed work on Korean history, a translation that will undoubtedly remain for years as the standard overview of Korean history for both Korea specialists and nonspecialists This project represents a marriage of revision and skillful translation with the ultimate result being the balanced and well-organized volume under review.<b><i></i></b><b>Michael Robinson</b><b>, </b><b><i>Journal of Asian Studies</i></b><br /><br />This is a famous book, and its translation into English has long been awaited The present elegantly written translation provides the reader, whether expert or amateur, with a good and entertaining introduction to the richness of Koreas historical experience.<b><i></i></b><b>J. E. Hoare</b><b>, </b><b><i>Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs</i></b><br /><br />Painstaking translation and attentive editing and indexing combine with a consistent and logical system of dividing topics to provide easy access to both the events of Korean history and Professor Lees thoughtful interpretation.<b><i></i></b><b><i>Asiaweek Literary Review</i></b><br /><br />To praise the translation is to praise the original. The modern writing of Korean history by Koreans has been beset by difficulties: the restrictions imposed by their traditions, the near-impossibility of writing the history of ones own nation under severe colonial rule, and the passions raised by the still-continuing political division of a homogeneous nation. To have written under these circumstances a history of Korea which can be presented, without significant emendation or apology, to Western readers is no small achievement.<b><i></i></b><b>W. E. Skillend</b><b>, </b><b><i>Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London</i></b>
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  The Bubble Match
  Merav Tuson Vardy
   
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  Contents
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  Chapter Twenty
  Chapter Twenty-One
  Chapter Twenty-Two
  Chapter Twenty-Three
   
  About the Author
  Message from the Author
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  “So, how many years has it been since you left Korea?”
  I look back at Lee Sung, still dumbfounded by