Korea's Religious Places - About the Author

Mark Peterson is a professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He lived in Korea for over fifteen years, serving seven of those years as the Director of the Korea Fulbright Program. His published works include Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the Creation of a Classic Confucian Society, A Brief History of Korea (published by Facts-on-File, New York), and Yugyo sahoe ui ch’angch’ul (The emergence of Confucian society). He previously served as chair of the Committee on Korean Studies of the Association for Asian Studies and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Korea Journal.