The Dawn of Modern Korea
Andrei Lankov was born 26 June 1963 in Leningrad (now Petersburg). He majored in Korean and Chinese history at Leningrad State University and received his Ph.D. from the same school in 1989. In 1992 he went to South Korea for work; he moved to Australia in 1996 to take up a post at the Australian National University, and from 2004 he is teaching in Seoul, at the Kookmin University. He is writing regular columns for Korea Times, Chosun Ilbo and is also engaged in research on North Korean social and political history.