Michael J. Seth is a professor of history at James Madison University, USA, where he teaches World and East Asian history. His research has focused mostly, although not exclusively, on Korea. He has lived and worked in Korea and travels frequently to the country. His published works include: Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (2002), A Concise History of Korea (Fourth Edition, 2024), Korea: A Very Short Introduction (2020), and Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States (2021), Korea at War (2023).