Some believe it to be one of the first ironclad warships, with a covered deck useful for protecting its crew. It was ...

Samuel Hawley's The Imjin War remedies that ignorance, and what's more, the writer does it with a writing style that reads more like a “Prelude” to Shogun than a dry academic text. The Imjin War ...

Though the Imjin War did not bring down the Joseon caste system, it did temporarily weaken it, leading to moments of all-out rebellion. As depicted in Uprising, it was Joseon citizens, angry at ...