About the Speaker

Charles K. Armstrong, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Department of History at Columbia University

Slides for Classroom Use

Top Ten Things to Know about Korea in the 21st Century – PowerPoint [6 MB]

Background Reading and Classroom Material

Economic Costs of Korean Reunification [SPICE/Stanford]
2011

Asia by Era – Korea: 21st Century [AFE]

Timeline of Korean History [AFE]

Central Themes for a Unit on Korea [AFE]

Primary Sources with DBQ on Korea [AFE]

Elementary Materials on Korea [AFE]

Memory of Forgotten War [MU Films]
“Conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of the Korean War (1950-53) by four Korean-American survivors.”