The Yalu Flows and a collection of 40 short stories serve to convey the true image of Korea and Koreans to Germans who had little information about Korea. Mudhoni and From the Yalu to the Isar, the continuation of The Yalu Flows, are autobiographical stories and they reflect the position of Mirok Li as a great author.
Traditional markets show us a slice of society but to see this we need an understanding of the markets of the past: when markets began to appear, how they developed, how they changed as they became assimilated into the capitalist system. In other words, we need to look over the history of Korean markets.
The new community movement (or Saemaul Undong) in South Korea has in the short space of less than a decade transformed both rural and urban life in the nation as if by magic. Yet there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about this campaign; it is simply a catalytic agent that makes maximum use of available resources, including human energy, ingenuity, and ambition.
the debate about this process has revolved largely around the question of protetectionism.
Moon Chung-hee’s lyrical poems represent poignant self-examination, evoking moments of bewilderment and hopeful resignation to the passage of time and the imprisoning conditions of her life. Her passionately rebellious languages makes her whimsical and tentative inquiry into the conditions of women taut with poetic tension.
Ji-woo Hwang’s poems describe a life governed by the inescapable reality that all hell can break loose at any time, a reality that now permates our own culture. How, we might wonder, can we live like this? Hwang’s response, in a poem addressed to Charlie Chaplin. His poems continue to find readers in his newly democratic land, for they mix lyrical intensity with an acute political sensibili…
This book, as a sequel to Korea under siege, is unrivalled as a single, comprehensive exposition of South Korea’s phenomenal economic success after the Korean War. It provides a coherent blend of historical details and analytical rigor that makes complexities embedded in South Korea’s process of capital formation and its phenomenol economic growth authoritatively comprehensible. This is an …
This novel content four short stories and a novella span the time between the Korean War and the dawn of the 21st century. Korea has been a country divided for more than fifty years, yet for people who lived throughit, the war preceding the division won’t be over until their country is united.
In this book, each author offers his own approach to addressing the problem of determining abd explaining the economic effects of democracy. Chung-in Moon sees ideology as the dominant force shaping economic policy and performance. Before the 1980s, the dominant economic ideology in Korea was dirigisme, or the developmental state. The findings of this volume illustrate the complicated pattern i…
This text is designed to make it particularly easy for students to understand data communication and networking. We have used the five-layer Internet model ad the framework for the text. We have used a top-down approach, discussing the fifth layer first and the first layer last, to make it more relevant for business students who often look at the big picture before focusing on the physical deta…
+ appendix A,B, Index