Professor Wang is such an educated and charismatic professor. He has a very engaging personality, is very funny, and is just very fun to listen to. Sometimes lectures would be a little snooze-y, but that was just because of the content occasionally, not his lecturing. He gives weekly discussions based on reading, and the midterm and final are essays, but a passage analysis part based on the whole quarter's sources is added on for the final. He also streams lectures on Discord and sends out recordings so attendance is not mandatory, but I find attending lectures is important in the weekly reading and discussion post, and he often gives ideas for what to write. Your TA 100% matters though, mine was a harsh grader but also very lenient with attendance. I cannot vouch for Professor Wang enough, take Korea 50 as a GE!!!

The prof is incredibly passionate and highly knowledgeable on the subject; he is also actively involved in helping his students succeed if they reach out for assistance. However, you do have to actually be interested in the subject to succeed - there is a lot of reading and weekly discussion postings, so it's not an "easy GE". I really liked the class overall though because it was engaging, all resources were uploaded by prof (no need to buy things, he gave us pdfs <3) and I definitely learned a LOT. If you genuinely want to learn about Korean history and about Korea's history with international relations, you'll enjoy the course without any major issues.

Lectures and readings are excellent. Material covered is interesting and is likely to give you new perspectives on history.

Professor is very knowledgeable and answers all sorts of questions about Asian history. Professor is active on Discord.