Congratulations, Dr. Ohn, for the great work!

Your work and your clear vision arising from your deep understanding 

of our complicated and complex modern history of Korea is so priceless 

that, I'm convinced, not only your contemporaries including myself but also

our future generations will keep going back to it as reliable, dependable, trustworthy 

references.

Once again, my heartfelt congratulations to you.

Wow, what an accomplishment, Dr. Ohn!

Great job!!!!!

I will keep it to read chapter by chapter whenever I have a time to enjoy it in maximum with no pressure.

Thaaaaanks.

BB

Thank you very much for your encouragement, Dr. Lee and prof. Lee.

Though the purpose of writing is for author's own pleasure, it is very 

difficult for an author to keep going without social recognition.
 

I have to fight all the time against temptation to bend myself for the popularity.

It is very easy to fall into my own trap that exaggerate the facts or bring up false history 

to prove myself. I tried my best to confirm the facts behind my statements.

It would have been extremely difficult to write historical essays in old days

when there were no searching tools in the internet. So many precious 

informations are easily accessible by simply googling. It saves a lot of time

for me and makes my brain to work for "new ideas" based on the information

instead of factual memorization. It gives me the capacity to see forest rather than trees.

Because of the zoom conference through this Sunday morning hour, from 8:00 am to 12:30pm - I had to deliver a keynote-, I didn't have enough time to read from the chapter one yet but had a chance to peep through a few chapters including Chap 12. 대구 10.1 폭동 and surprised you quoted my mother 조애영's  내방가사 to describe how she saved my father's life from the rioters. 

Indeed, your book seems to be the first ever summary I read with such joy and enjoyed such accurate description to give a thorough review on Korean history along the last part of Yi dynasty through the Korean War, 조선 근대사 . 

Since I do not have a zoom conference till June, I should be able to read with no hurry and enjoy it thoroughly through the month.

Warm regards,

BB