Science in Modern and Contemporary Korean Society is a remarkable book, the first work in the history of science in modern and contemporary Korea since Kwahakkisulsa (History of Science and Technology), volume 3 of Hyondae hanguk munhwasa taegye (The Cultural History of Contemporary Korea) (Seoul: Korea University Press, 1977), and Hanguk kwahak kisul 30 nyonsa (History of Science and Technology in Korea for the Past Thirty Years) (Seoul: Korean Federation of Scientific and Technological Societies, 1980). It was edited by Kim Yung Sik, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University, and Kim Geun-Bae, a forerunner in the history of science in modern and contemporary Korea at the Department of Science Studies, Chonbuk National University, and the author of The Emergence of Modern Korean Scientific and Technological Manpower (2005; reviewed by Min Suh Son, EASTS...
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1 June 2011
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June 01 2011
Book Review
YUNG SIK, KIM; GEUN-BAE, KIM, eds.,
Kunhyondae hanguk sahoe ui kwahak 근현대 한국사회와 과학 [Science in Modern and Contemporary Korean Society]
Seoul
: Changjak kwa pipyongsa
, 1998
. 363
pp, 13,000 won
SEONG-RAE, PARK, DONGWON, SHIN, and DONG HOON, OH,
Uri kwahak 100 nyon 우리 과학 100년 [Hundred Years of Our Science]
, Seoul
: Hyonamsa
, 2001
, 359
pp, 20,000 won
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE COMPILATION OF HISTORY (KOREA)
, ed., Kunhyondae kwahak kisul kwa salm ui pyonhwa 근현대 과학 기술과 삶의 변화 [Modern and Contemporary Science and Technology and the Change of Life]
, Seoul
: Doosan Donga
, 2005
, 336
pp, 24,000 won
East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2011) 5 (2): 279–282.
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January 06 2011
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January 06 2011
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Sang-yong Song; Book Review. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 June 2011; 5 (2): 279–282. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-1265112
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