This article aims to review the scholarly research about German history in Korea during the last two years (2011~2012). It is characterized above all by the end of the quantitative growth, that don"t cause positive qualitative growth. Nevertheless new...
This article aims to review the scholarly research about German history in Korea during the last two years (2011~2012). It is characterized above all by the end of the quantitative growth, that don"t cause positive qualitative growth. Nevertheless new ground is breaking and new ideas emerging in this field. For example, many researchers of German history have recently focused their studies on the history of German-South Korea relations. However, the small boom of the history of the relationship between the two counties is motivated not by the ‘transnational turn’, which featured the review two years ago, but by the lately improved status of the Korean history. Moreover, new fields of history such as environmental history, history of education and urban history attracted somewhat wide attention among the Korean historians for German history. Their achievements are not enough to make a breakthrough in the field. Some Korean historians are still also interested in “old themes” of German history such as the historical process of the reunification, the coming to terms with the past, and the fall of the Weimar republic.