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Ki-baik Lee (1924–2004) was a leading South Korean historian. He was born in Jeongju-gun, in North Pyeongan province in what is today North Korea. He graduated from the
Osan School Osan () is a Subdivisions of South Korea, city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, approximately south of Seoul. The population of the city is around 200,000. The local economy is supported by a mix of agricultural and industrial enterprises. It ...
in 1941, attending Waseda University in Tokyo but ultimately graduating from
Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...
in 1947. Lee was Professor of History, at Sogang University, Seoul. His most noted work was the ''New History of Korea'' (''Kuksa Sillon'', to echo Shin Chaeho's 1908 '' Doksa Sillon''), first published in 1967 and revised thereafter. New History of Korea was published in English in translation by Edward W. Wagner.


Publications

* 한국사신론(韓國史新論)한국사신론
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A New History of Korea
' (English translation)


See also

*
History of Korea The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825. The earlies ...
* List of Koreans


References

South Korean historians 1924 births 2004 deaths Historians of Korea People from North Pyongan Seoul National University alumni Waseda University alumni Sogang University faculty 20th-century historians Members of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea {{korea-bio-stub