Young Ick Lew
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LOCATION: SEOUL, Korea, Republic of
Endowed Chair Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor of Korean History, Hallym University, Ch'unch'on, Korea, 1985–96. Author of The Kabo Reform Movement: Korean and Japanese Reform Efforts in Korea, 1894.
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Korea, history of the Korean Peninsula from prehistoric times to the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War (1950–53). For later developments, see North Korea: History; and South Korea: History. Archaeological, linguistic, and legendary sources support the view that the Korean Peninsula was settled…
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