A concise history of korea is a timely response to the demand for a pre modern korean history for teachers undergraduate students and upper level high school students of particular interest is the inclusion of recent scholarship seth underscores the challenges faced by historians of east asia due to the incalculable loss of primary documents and conflicting interpretations based on . This engaging text provides a concise history of korea from the beginning of human settlement in the region through the late nineteenth century its thorough chronological narrative equally emphasizes social cultural and political history students will be especially drawn to descriptions of everyday life for both elite and nonelite members of society during various historical periods. A concise history of korea by charles scott kimball xenophile historian dec 2009 introduction korea is a small politically divided country that occupies the strategically important korean peninsula in east asia the peninsula is 600 miles long 200 miles wide and it shares land borders with china on the north and russia on the northeast while japan lies just 120 miles to the east on the . A concise history of korea is timely for its coverage of korea combined with regional and global perspectives in july 2016 the california department of education approved an updated and revised history social science framework that includes more than twenty references to korean history and culture the previous framework only mentioned korea four times since the leading textbook