This is my favorite professor out of all the classes I have taken at UCLA. Professor Wang is very interesting, and he presents Korean history in a very vivid way. Unlike other professors, he does not deduct points for the comments or opinions you include in your assignments, because he believes that everyone has different perspectives. As long as you express your own views and ideas, your assignments will usually receive full marks.

He is an excellent professor. I had never taken a Korean history course before, but this class sparked my interest in Korean history. In short, I will definitely take his class again if I have the chance before I graduate.

This course will only be fun if you have an interest in Korean history. Due to the quarter system, he does rush 5000 years of Korean history in 20 lectures. However, he does teach in a great fashion and is always willing to help students via Discord channel.

The grade breakdown:
- Participation (20%)
- Weekly postings (30%)
- Take-home midterm (25%)
- Take-home Final (35%)

This class may be painful if you are just willing to fulfill the GE req. If that is the case, consider other courses.

Prof. Wang is a wonderful and passionate instructor. Throughout the quarter, he made adjustments to the structure of lectures as to make them more organized. Assignments included weekly polls, a few quizzes, a few worksheets, weekly discussion posts, as well as a take-home midterm and take-home final. Midterm was an essay, and the final involved discussing 7 passages and writing one regular essay. Discussion is required and participation was very much emphasized.

I don't know if I would consider this an easy GE, but I enjoyed this course nonetheless. Weekly blog posts felt a bit demanding but were manageable. For the midterm and final essays, you're given two prompt options each, but as a whole I considered the prompts to be quite challenging. Prof. Wang as well as my TA were very helpful in answering questions though! Wang even created a forum for us to send in anonymous questions about Korean history, which I thought was very considerate :)

Dr. Wang will get you stoked on Korea.

The Choson Dynasty is now my Roman Empire

I took this class out of pure interest since all of my GEs are done and I had room to take classes I liked, and never again. For a lower division course, it really doesn't need to be this difficult. Overall, the material is interesting and Prof. Wang's lectures are helpful but the number of readings you need to look over each week is beyond incompatible with other schedules. If you skim readings, you better read it over again because it will find a way to be used against you. My TA was absolutely horrible and grades far harsher than Prof. Wang. His class is honestly fun to learn about when you're going at your own pace but the assignments and how strictly they're graded suck the fun out of it. I'll admit that there are not many assignments but I'd say that's even worse since it impacts your grade a lot harder. We had to write a 2-3 page midterm and final paper which basically are the make or break. The other two graded assignments are weekly discussion posts and participation (which was just interacting with the course website). Because of how harsh Prof. Wang's TAs grade, you will most likely not get a full score on your discussion posts, which brings down your grade a lot. Office hours don't really help either, you're better off talking to classmates about the material. But, I will say that I like Prof. Wang as a person: He's a nice guy, hears out your problems, tries to help in the best way he can, is responsive to emails in a timely manner, and is very lenient with deadlines. I just wish his TAs and grading rubric would make the experience a lot easier

The professor is very nice. His lectures are really good (asynchronous), the TA mainly graded our discussion posts and she was a very harsh grader. Make sure you choose a good TA because I would say the TA is more in control of your grades. They use a very unique grading scale, and for my quarter they curved the class.

Prof. Wang was absolutely hilarious. He always made class engaging and accessible. Lecture was in person, on zoom and recorded. All the exams were online asynch. and open note open book. The assignments were always engaging and fairly easy, especially if you paid attention to the slides. The book was completely unnecessary, I don't even remember if there was a book honestly. Highly recommend!

Professor Wang is an amazing professor who truly makes an effort every day. He is super approachable and encourages questions on any topic within the course. I knew nothing about Korean history before this class, but I'm so interested in it now.

Easy GE pls take. Literally, you take no tests, you write ez weekly discussions, one (1200 word) midterm essay, and analyse 5 articles (100 words each) and a final essay (also 1200 words). Professor Wang streams his lectures on discord, I never emailed him and only contacted him through discord and was the chillest prof I have ever had. I honestly recommend him as his class was pretty interesting but honestly I stopped going to class during the second week, popped into his streams every once in a while and got an A. I did not try a lot on the weekly discussions and just skimmed through the reading and got a good scores. I will say the class does depend a lot on your TA. I got lucky and switched into Raymond's discussion and he was a pretty fair grader as I've heard other TA's grade harshly. I also have to mention that there is extra credit given for doing a course evaluation at the end of the quarter and he drops your lowest discussion score so you have so much room to do well in the class. Trust me, take this class if you need an easy GE to balance your harder core classes while also being interesting.

Chill. Posts slides and knowledgeable on where to find book. Streams lectures on Discord, so even if you're late to class you can just open up the stream, sit, and take notes. Some humor.
You can get by without doing all the textbook readings later in the course, because his lectures are informative and digestible, but you HAVE to read the given discussion and module sources for the midterm and final paper. The only thing I disliked was how some weekly discussion prompts were posted late and made me procrastinate reading the passages. Try to keep postings under 200 words and answer all the questions in the prompt, else it sucks for the TAs when they grade the weekly required discussion (and thus it will also suck out a bit of your grade).
Wang tries to make his facts relevant to the modern day and emphasizes the multiple perspectives of everything through interesting questions and interacting with students, some compensation for exposition dumping thousands of years of political intrigue in a 75 minute period. A lot of hand waving on what Korea is but it's for a purpose. Occasionally gives async lecture recordings, which are nice.
The professor himself is very knowledgeable not only in Korean history, customs, and modern culture but also that of other Asian cultures' intersections, continuities and contrasts with Korea, and he is approachable, easy and enjoyable to talk to outside of class. The TAs for this quarter were also nice; Richard helped me with my midterm paper, and Matthew gave me great advice when I was struggling with discussion posts. I recommend taking this class.