Columbia University Press has recently published the final book by JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940-2011), who was a WEAI faculty member and the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Titled The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation, Haboush's book explores the Imjin War (1592–1598), which was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the … [Read more...]