Ham Chai-bong`s - Becoming Korean` examines how Koreans came to be
(WorldNews South Korea)

In an age where three-minute book excerpts on mobile phones pass as `reading,` Hahm Jai-bong, president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, has boldly set about writing five volumes on the subject of Korean identity. As he elucidates in the preface to `Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi,` or `Becoming Korean,` Hahm`s translation of the book`s title, the multi-volume work stemmed from a personal quest for self-identity. ......