Korean per ceptions of the United States a history of their origins and formation

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS YOUNG ICK LEW is Chair Professor of Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. He graduated from Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. He was the President of the Korean Historical Association from 1991 to 1992 and the Founding Director of the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at Yonsei University from 1997 until 2001. He has written a number of books and articles on late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Korean political, diplomatic and intellectual history, including ones on President Syngman Rhee. BYONG-KIE SONG is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Humanities, Dankook University. He graduated from the Department of History, Korea University and earned his Ph.D. from the same university. He taught modern Korean history at Dankook University while occasionally being affiliated with the Korean National History Compilation Committee and the Academy of Korean Studies as a senior research fellow. He has authored many books and articles on late nineteenth century Korean relations with the United States and China, including Korea's First Encounter with the United States (2004), as well as on the history of Tokto Islet. HO-MIN YANG is a distinguished professor at the Hallym Academy of Science. He studied law at Chuo University in Japan and political science at Seoul National University. When he was a professor at Seoul National University in 1963, he was forced to leave the school due to his opposition to the Korea-Japan Conference. He subsequently embarked on a career as an editorial writer at the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, which lasted for about twenty years. He taught at Hallym University since 1985. As a pioneering scholar on North Korean communism, he has published more than ten books and numerous articles, including From the 38th Parallel to the Demarcation Line (2005). He received many awards, including the Hoam Award from the Samsung Foundation for his outstanding career as a journalist. HY-SOP LIM is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Korea University and a member of the Korean National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Emory University. He was a professor of sociology at Korea University and served as President of both the Korean Sociological Association and the Korean Social Science Research Council. He has written extensively in the areas of social development and cultural change. He is the author of Social Change and Cultural Change (1984), Development and Social Equality (1985), Social Change and Values in Korea (1994), and Theories of Collective Behavior and Social Movement (2002). ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR MICHAEL FINCH is Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Keimyung University. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, has an M.A. in Korean Studies from Yonsei University, and received his D.Phil. in Korean History from the University of Oxford. He is the author of Min Y?ng-hwan: A Political Biography (2002). ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE This translation project began with a meeting with Professor Young Ick Lew in Seoul in the summer of 1993. When Professor Lew first asked me if I would be interested in translating Han'gugin ?i tae-Mi insik (Korean Perceptions of the United States), I have to confess that I hesitated. In the atmosphere of simmering tensions between the two long-time allies that year, it was an eminently worthy project. Nevertheless, I doubted my own abilities to undertake such a formidable task. In the end I accepted the challenge due to my respect for Professor Lew as one of the foremost historians in Korea today and out of a sense of gratitude for the inspiration and support that he has given me since I first took his classes in modern Korean history at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University…

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