About Three Thousand Ri: An Epic History of Korea by David Corey
Five thousand years of Korean history — from ancient Gojoseon to the fall of Joseon in 1910 — told as a narrative history in the style of Dan Jones or Tom Holland. Serious research, compulsively readable prose.
This is the full sweep: the Three Kingdoms wars, the Mongol occupation, Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s impossible victory at Myeongnyang, the founding and long twilight of Joseon, and the painful collision with the modern world. Built on primary sources, written for readers — not academics.
If you’ve ever wanted a book that makes Korean history feel as vivid and urgent as any epic you’ve read, this is it.
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Author Bio:
David Corey is a writer and historian who fell in love with Korea after living there for years — enough time for it to become something close to a second home country. That love, combined with a lifelong passion for popular narrative history, is what drove him to write Three Thousand Ri. He wanted the kind of book about Korea that he'd always wished existed: rigorous but readable, sweeping but human-scaled. When he's not writing, he's reading history, traveling, and making his way through an embarrassingly long list of K-dramas. Three Thousand Ri is his first book.