The Book of Corrections (Chingbirok) is a record of the events surrounding the Japanese invasion of Korea later known as the Imjin War (1592–1598). The author, vividly portrays all the major developments of the crisis, as well as the men who were involved in it.
Contents: 1. The natural setting of Seoul 2. Seoul history traced 1 3. Seoul history traced 2 4. Life in Seoul today 5. The cultural legacy of Seoul.
Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volu…