Korean History

A 2000 word report on one of the following topics:
1) Discuss the processes of early state formation on the Korean peninsula and adjacent areas to the north
and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms.
2) Discuss the political role of Buddhism during the Koryŏ dynasty.
3) Discuss the political, social, philosophical and religious consequences of the introduction of Neo-
Confucianism in the Koryŏ-Chosŏn transition and early Chosŏn.
4) To what extent was the ‘Practical Learning’ of Late Chosŏn a break with orthodox Neo-Confucianism?
5) How did the geo-political situation in East Asia change in the late nineteenth century and how did Korea
attempt to adjust to it?
6) How did the division of the Korean peninsula and the events of 1945-1950 create the conditions for the
Korean War?
7) Discuss political suppression and the struggle for democracy in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.