Russia-South Korea Relations: On Bumpy Parallel Roads

Abstract

Review of the book Russia-South Korea Relations in the Format of Parallel History (Russian-language edition). Anatoly V. Torkunov and Kim Hak-chun (eds). Moscow: Aspect Press, 2022 – 972 p. In this solid folio the team of co-authors comprising thirteen Russian and twelve South Korean scholars agreed to scrutinize more than a century and a half of the history of Russia-Korea relations in ten chapters, with each offering the view of both Russian and South Korean specialists on a certain historical stage of the relations.