This volume critically evaluates the literatures of both North and South Korea after the Korean War. The final section approaches Korean literature from an international perspective in examining the literature of Korean immigrants living abroad. In recent days, both researches and general readers outside Korea have taken an increasing interest in Korean literature.
This handbook is helpful to those who wish to understand Korea, its land and people, at least the readers will come and visit this ”Dynamic Korea, the Hub of Asia.”
This handbook, briefly examining the history, people, culture, art, economy, society, sports and other aspects of Korea, attempts to present a concise overview of Korea’s time-honored legacy, modern achievements and the current direction of the Republic’s nation-building. This handbook is helpful to those who wish to understand Korea, its land and people.
The books interpretation of the nations ancient history prior to the Three Kingdoms period is of a nature unacceptable by local academia. The book is translated despite such a fact to provide the readers with the full scope of information that is presented differently by various groups.
This volume present 29 original articles carefully selected from the Korea Journal that cover all periods of Korean History. The articles, spanning various fields and chosen under the guidance of Professor Yi Tae-Jin, are arranged into five major periods: 1) Ancient, 2) Goryeo, 3) Joseon, 4) Modern, and 5) Colonial and Post-Liberation. Though the compilation aims to cover a wide range of fields…
This volume include those introducing major trends in Korean philosophy in a concise manner: articles concerning reform in traditional philosophy in response to modernity, and those concerning the significance of traditional Korean philosophy today. This volume will provide the reader with a great deal of information on the past, present, and future of the field. I hope that it will serve as a …
The 2.824 entries in this dictionary are classified into four major categories: archaeology, architecture, art history, and folklore. This book tried to select those terms that are regurarly used in ordinary texts and guides to cultural artifacts. This publication introduce Korean art and culture through overseas exchange. With the Foundation’s support, leading museums around the world have e…
This handbook is offered as reference material for those who are interested in Korea. In this revision, all the chapters were rewritten, some more extensively than others, with the singular purpose of informing the international community about the realities of Korea today. Descriptions were expanded to explain how the nation has arrived at the present status through the millenniums of history …
This volume, Korean Politics: Striving for Democracy and Unification, offers critical view of the contemporary political arena by presenting a range of enduring historical factors that continue to influence Korean politics, and considering their implications for the future. Under the guidance of Prof. Kang Jung In, the 28 articles contained in this volume were selected from a total of over 300 …