Ki-baik Lee (1924–2004) was a leading

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. He was born in

Jeongju Chŏngju (; also Jŏngju) is a ''si'', or city, in southern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. Prior to 1994, it was designated as a ''kun'' or county. The terrain is mostly level, but mountainous in the north. To the south lies the Chŏ ...

-gun, in North Pyeongan province in what is today

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. He graduated from the

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in 1941, attending

Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerou ...

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but ultimately graduating from

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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 Sin Chaeho, or Shin Chae-ho (; November 7, 1880 – February 21, 1936), was a Korean independence activist, historian, anarchist, nationalist, and a founder of Korean nationalist historiography (민족 사학, ''minjok sahak''; sometimes shortene ...

's 1908 ''

Doksa Sillon ''Doksa Sillon'' or ''A New Reading of History'' (1908) is a book that discusses the history of Korea from the time of the mythical Dangun to the fall of the kingdom of Balhae in 926 CE. Its author––historian, essayist, and independ ...

''), first published in 1967 and revised thereafter. New History of Korea was published in English in translation by Edward W. Wagner.

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

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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

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