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During last twenty years, more of several hundred titles on microhistory appeared and showed a significant change of perspective: From the 'social' to the 'cultural.' Most of the first generation of microhistorians intended to construct a new model of modernization which would approach more properly the reality of ordinary people. For them, microhistory was only a new kind of social history. There was, however, a different cultural current as showed in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, who, in spite of his own consistent socialist faith, had a much more interest in the 'cultural,' not the 'social,' of people. This point is very important to the second generation of microhistory roughly after the 1990s. The cultural turn now prevails among the present microhistorians of the world. The 'micronarrative' throws a fresh light on the narrative style of recent global history: Wider perspective rather requires thick micronarraive, not more traditional macronarrative. Recently, Korean social and cultural microhistorians also tend to focus upon the concrete aspects of popular and elite cultures through the micronarrative.