About Mark A. Peterson
Mark A. Peterson was an American koreanologist, writer and teacher.
Mark A. Peterson is an American Koreanist, professor emeritus at Brigham Young University (BYU), and YouTuber. He operates the channel Frog Outside the Well, which covers Korean history and culture.
Peterson was born in Utah, United States. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He arrived in South Korea in 1965 as a missionary of the church. His thesis was on the Gwangju Uprising. In 1996, he received the Yeonam Prize for one of his papers. In 2021, he publicly debated J. Mark Ramseyer on the issue of whether comfort women were voluntary prostitutes.
He has two ethnic Korean daughters, both of whom he adopted.
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American Koreanist
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Mark A. Peterson was a koreanologist, writer and teacher.
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