Chapter 1: Political Changes in the Late Joseon Dynasty

01 Joseon reorganized the country.
02 (And) the relationship with China and Japan has also changed.
03 (Around this time) There was a great conflict between the political factions that led politics.
04 (Then) King Yeongjo and King Jeongjo pursued a policy of tangpyeong.
[Confirmation Learning] Concept Organization / Exploratory Reading

Chapter 2: New Trends in the Late Joseon Dynasty

01 Agriculture and commerce developed in the late Joseon Dynasty.
02 (Then) the caste system began to shake.
03 (Meanwhile) Western learning came in and Eastern learning emerged.
04 (In addition) Silhak and national learning developed in the late Joseon Dynasty.
05 (Also) common people's culture developed in the late Joseon Dynasty.
[Confirmation Learning] Concept Organization / Exploratory Reading

Chapter 3: Social Turmoil and Reform in the Late Joseon Dynasty

01 In the late Joseon Dynasty, factional politics shook the country.
02 (In response) the peasants rose up in revolt.
03 (After) Prince Heungseon Daewongun carried out reforms.
[Confirmation Learning] Concept Organization / Exploratory Reading

Answer and explanation

Why should I study Korean history through reading comprehension?

They say that Korean history is a subject that requires a lot of memorization.
However, in order to study history easily, properly, and enjoyably, you need to first learn important historical concepts and vocabulary, and then practice reading comprehension.
Reading practice isn't just for Korean language subjects.
Reading practice is essential for studying Korean history, which involves a lot of unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary.
Difficult Korean history becomes fun with the step-by-step reading practice of 『Reading Korean History Comes First』!

Why do we need to know the flow of Korean history?

History is the story of how people lived in the past.
The story continues on and on.
Historical events have backgrounds or causes, and new events and scenes unfold accordingly.
That's why it's important to understand the flow of history.
Korean history is not a subject to be memorized.
If you get the flow, you can remember the story in a series of steps.
With the easy-to-understand illustrations and explanations of 『Korean History: Reading First』, you can clearly remember the complex flow of Korean history!

Complete and check in 3 steps: concept, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

[Concept] Concepts in pictures
1) Understand the concept through a picture.
- You can grasp key concepts at a glance and memorize them in chunks of pictures.

[Vocabulary] Vocabulary in sentences
2) Summarize the concept in one sentence.
- You can learn the meaning of concept vocabulary and use it in sentences to understand it clearly.
- You can clearly understand the key concepts by summarizing them in one sentence.


[Reading] Reading comprehension: reading text and pictures together
3) Read the text while checking the key concepts.
- You can preview the key concepts covered in the text using paragraph summaries.

- By organizing the content scattered across several pages of the textbook into a single passage, you can clearly understand the core concepts and grasp the structure of the text, allowing you to read effectively.
4) Look at the map and photos along with the text.
- Understand the chronological flow of history while reading the text, and understand the spatial context by looking at maps and photographs along with the text.
I can understand.
- You can remember historical facts in three dimensions by weaving them together like warp and weft.
5) Develop basic reading comprehension skills.
- Reading correctly: You can develop the ability to ‘factually understand’ by reading a given passage correctly and accurately understanding the content.
- Reading by connection: You can develop the ability to understand organic relationships, which is essential for reading history, by connecting the order in which events occurred or connecting people and events.

6) Develop in-depth reading skills.
- Detailed reading: Analytical reading, which involves reading the text in detail and understanding the details of the text.
You can develop your ability to 'understand'.
- In-depth reading: By reading the text in connection with the “Example” text, you can develop the ability to “inferentially understand” by drawing judgments based on the given information.
7) Summarize the structure.
- Organizing the structure (short answer): You can organize the content of the text in a structured diagram by filling in the appropriate vocabulary.
8) Learn how to write descriptively.
- Marking on a blank map (active, short answer): You can clearly remember important information by recalling historical map information in the text related to the learning content and marking it on a blank map.
- Descriptive writing (hint-based descriptive questions): By writing down what you have learned in accordance with the question's intent, you can develop the ability to logically describe knowledge and internalize the learning content.
We've provided some sentences as guides to help you approach descriptive writing more easily.


[Confirmation Learning] Concept organization through gathering and review + Exploratory reading that completes through writing
9) Gather and organize the concepts.
- Writing concept terms (short answer): By gathering the concepts studied in each chapter together like a chronology, you can intuitively remember the flow of history that can be confusing because it is divided and review important concepts.

10) Develop in-depth reading comprehension and descriptive writing skills through inquiry-type problems.
- Exploratory Reading: You can develop in-depth reading skills with added depth and density by examining important research topics in each chapter and reading based on related materials.
- Descriptive writing (keyword-based descriptive questions): This is a more advanced writing type than 'hint-based descriptive questions', where you write a description based on given keywords or sentence structures. This helps you build confidence in descriptive writing.