Quizzes were so annoying.... these segnificantly effected on my final gade even though my midterm and final grade were high...

Too much workload, very disorganized. Towards the last third of the quarter she started giving out pop quizzes every lecture which was very unfair. She called out several students in class for not paying attention. She almost always faced a technical difficulty, which I found very unprofessional. Great speaker, but I don't recommend taking this class with her

She is a graduate professor according to our TA - so she did not know how to teach an undergrad class. The grading in class was horribly inaccurate, student to student. Students with exactly the same answers got totally different grades depending on their grader, so a lot of kids who worked hard did not do very well on tests and some other kids who didn't ever come to class got higher grades. I suggest not to take her class.. There is a pretty high chance your grades will be f*ed/

This professor is too unorganized. She always has technical difficulties with her slides (one time muted the audio on the video and said "why isn't the sound coming out") and shows the class Korean soap operas that are too irrelevant. Also, she has problems communicating with the students as she informs us about the weekly response prompt right before it is due. Her thick accent does not help at all. I would definitely not recommend this class. Just take the other civilization classes. The only good part about this class is getting grades. Before the exams, she basically tells the class what the problems are on the test. Just memorize all of them. Memorize them good. I had two friends who didn't memorize thoroughly and got diced up on the test. But, just do yourself a favor and stay away from this class.

I really enjoyed this class! I took it because I might be majoring in Korean and this would be a lower div required class, but it's a good GE to take if you don't mind history. I didn't always pay attention for the entirety of the class, but Professor Lee doesn't have dry lectures and her voice is pleasant/not monotonous and it's pretty easy to stay focused. There was a lot of content on modern (20th century) Korean history that I found really fascinating. The workload is just readings before lectures and a ~300 word response paper for discussion every week. Discussion was actually really helpful for this class (like it's supposed to be!) because we not only went over the events discussed in lecture but also analyzed them. My TA Sungha Yun was really enthusiastic and knowledgeable and I always looked forward to discussion because of her.
Most of your grade for this class is based on exams (30% midterm 40% final 30% discussion/participation) but the exams aren't hard as long as you actually know the material and can say why certain events/people are relevant in history. You do have to work for this class but it doesn't require really hard work and in my opinion it's pretty interesting. Definitely would recommend this class!