Editor's Note:

Rosemary Foot, The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions ofthe Korean Conflict, 1950-1953; A Substitute for Victory: The Politics ofPeacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks reviewed by James I. Matray134 Jae-UnKim, The Koreans: Their Mind and Behavior reviewed by Karl E. Kim140 Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich, Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 reviewed by Herbert Barringer143 George E. Ogle, South Korea: Dissent Within the Economic Miracle reviewed by Hagen Koo146 William Shaw, ta., Human Rights in Korea: Historiealand Policy Perspectives reviewed by James B. Palais147 Chung-Hee Soh, The Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study reviewed by Laurel Kendall150 Hendrik Hjort Sorensen, The Iconography ofKorean Buddhist Painting reviewed by Willa Jane Tanabe1 52 John Toland, In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953 reviewed by Callum MacDonald1 54 Kenneth M. Wells, New God, New Nation: Protestants and Self-Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea, 1896-1937 reviewed by Chung-shin Park1 57 Jung-en Woo, Race to the Swift: State andFinance in Korean Industrialization reviewed by Timothy C. Lim160 Dae-Kyu Yoon, Law and PoliticalAuthority in South Korea reviewed by William Shaw1 63 Contributors171 Editor's note: Four of the articles in this volume (those by Baek, Chai, Dong, and Thomsen and Kim) were among the many presented at the First Pacific Basin International Conference on Korean Studies held in Honolulu from July 27 to August 2, 1992. More selected papers from the conference will appear in future volumes of Korean Studies and in a separate publication representing the conference. ...