Easy GE pls take. Literally, you take no tests, you write ez weekly discussions, one (1200 word) midterm essay, and analyse 5 articles (100 words each) and a final essay (also 1200 words). Professor Wang streams his lectures on discord, I never emailed him and only contacted him through discord and was the chillest prof I have ever had. I honestly recommend him as his class was pretty interesting but honestly I stopped going to class during the second week, popped into his streams every once in a while and got an A. I did not try a lot on the weekly discussions and just skimmed through the reading and got a good scores. I will say the class does depend a lot on your TA. I got lucky and switched into Raymond's discussion and he was a pretty fair grader as I've heard other TA's grade harshly. I also have to mention that there is extra credit given for doing a course evaluation at the end of the quarter and he drops your lowest discussion score so you have so much room to do well in the class. Trust me, take this class if you need an easy GE to balance your harder core classes while also being interesting.

Chill. Posts slides and knowledgeable on where to find book. Streams lectures on Discord, so even if you're late to class you can just open up the stream, sit, and take notes. Some humor.
You can get by without doing all the textbook readings later in the course, because his lectures are informative and digestible, but you HAVE to read the given discussion and module sources for the midterm and final paper. The only thing I disliked was how some weekly discussion prompts were posted late and made me procrastinate reading the passages. Try to keep postings under 200 words and answer all the questions in the prompt, else it sucks for the TAs when they grade the weekly required discussion (and thus it will also suck out a bit of your grade).
Wang tries to make his facts relevant to the modern day and emphasizes the multiple perspectives of everything through interesting questions and interacting with students, some compensation for exposition dumping thousands of years of political intrigue in a 75 minute period. A lot of hand waving on what Korea is but it's for a purpose. Occasionally gives async lecture recordings, which are nice.
The professor himself is very knowledgeable not only in Korean history, customs, and modern culture but also that of other Asian cultures' intersections, continuities and contrasts with Korea, and he is approachable, easy and enjoyable to talk to outside of class. The TAs for this quarter were also nice; Richard helped me with my midterm paper, and Matthew gave me great advice when I was struggling with discussion posts. I recommend taking this class.

Lectures and readings are excellent. Material covered is interesting and is likely to give you new perspectives on history.

Professor is very knowledgeable and answers all sorts of questions about Asian history. Professor is active on Discord.

Professor Wang is such an educated and charismatic professor. He has a very engaging personality, is very funny, and is just very fun to listen to. Sometimes lectures would be a little snooze-y, but that was just because of the content occasionally, not his lecturing. He gives weekly discussions based on reading, and the midterm and final are essays, but a passage analysis part based on the whole quarter's sources is added on for the final. He also streams lectures on Discord and sends out recordings so attendance is not mandatory, but I find attending lectures is important in the weekly reading and discussion post, and he often gives ideas for what to write. Your TA 100% matters though, mine was a harsh grader but also very lenient with attendance. I cannot vouch for Professor Wang enough, take Korea 50 as a GE!!!