Dr. Lee will share perspectives of the archaeological researches from Japanese imperial period to the present. His lecture will focus on the conceptualization of the Bronze Age in Korea including the population dynamics and relocation of the Bronze Age settlement in Korea, construction of monumental burials and the development of cultural environments as well as the adoption and circulation of bronze materials. He will review the center and periphery relations of Northeast Asia and the rapid and compressive cultural changes in Late Prehistory and Protohistory of Korea, then conclude with the problems of the nationalist interpretations in the Northeast Asian Archaeology.