This paper examines the research trends of Korean contemporary history from 2018 to 2019. For two years, researchers of Korean contemporary history focused on reflecting on the ‘history wars’, which had been intensifying over the legitimacy of the nation, while there was little discussion about the meaning of Supreme Court ruling(2018) regarding forced mobilization at the end of Japanese colonial rule. In this paper, the research trends of Korean contemporary history are examined in three themes. First, it can be said that the research activities of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers stood out in terms of quantitative aspects and the pioneering nature of research themes in North Korean history research. Secondly, the study of Korean contemporary history is related to the study of ‘Cold War history’. The regional and transnational perspectives of ‘Cold War History’ research should be affected more to Korean contemporary history research. Third, the scope of research has tended to extend beyond the 1970s to the 1980s. As a trend in economic history research, it is noteworthy that the trend of industrial history research is to dynamically understand the growth and development of industry from the interaction between government policies and companies (capital). Also, this paper covers the academic research of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on Korean society in the 1980s. It is regrettable that interest in political and economic history is relatively low, but it is desirable that research by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the 1980s and 1990s will be more active.
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