This comprehensive book explains that while world politics has entered the post-Cold War era since the late 1980s, the Korean peninsula has not. Diplomatic relations have yet to be established between North Korea, the US and Japan, while conventional military confrontation has persisted. Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme has further increased tensions and the possibility of war has frequent…
in Korea unmasked, Won-bok rhie tells the story of the Korean people as it has never been told before. Rhie’s personal insights provide a delightful and humorous portrait of the Korean people. It is comical yet serious, well-informed but objective. If you have time for just one book on Korea, try this one!
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.
Tulisan-tulisan yang terkumpul dalam buku ini, mempertegas keterlibatan politik tentara bukan dari ambisi politik militer sejalan dengan yang dikatakan oleh Alexis de Tocqueville di Prancis. Buku ini juga meninjau pengalaman intervensi dan dominasi militer dalam politik di Indonesia, serta kegagalan eksperimen demokrasi di Mesir dan Thailand, dan Korea Selatan yang berhasil meletakkan supremasi…
Worldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than ratelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milme suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially divided between those who view statecraft as an art and those who believe it can aspire to the certainty of science. Worldmaking follows a cast of characters who built on one another’s idea…
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.”
The book in the essential bibliography series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians, researchers, and readers with a professional interest and as a starting point for pursuing futher studies.
This book content ”living on the Korean economy” as used in this book refers to my living in Korea like an average Korean. This meant my small apartment was Korean, as well as my food, drink, and friends.
In this book, we can discover many wonderful places-hotels, restaurants, shops, and more. This book contains expert advice on exploring South Korea, including cultural insights, specialized itineraries, and a laguage glossary.
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.
This book focuses not only upon regime change within North Korea, but also on the personal qualities of Kim Jong Il and his Father. It goes beyond the usual sort of political analysis to use systems principles. The result is the most comprehensive and valuable book on North Korea to date.
This book was made to give foreign readers an intact view of Korea, describe its identityand give insights into its internal beauty. This is reason the book is divided into history, nature, cultural heritages, art and tradition and cities.
This book covers such diverse topics as Geographic setting, people and language, history, constitution and government, economy and industry, social development, foreign relations, religion and social life, arts and popular culture, and sports. It is our hope that this material will help foreign students and researchers in their overall understanding of Korea.
This book is guide to Korea’s capital, Seoul. This book contains many photographs about Seoul. Seoul, the current capital city of South Korea, is an ancient city that boasts more than 600 years of rich history. There are few books written in English that are concerned with the traditional culture of Seoul. However, it is not easy to find a serious study written in English that explains to for…
This book is guide to Korea’s capital, Seoul. Seoul is an energetic, pulsating city where the ancient and modern coexist in dramatic contrast. With its grand royal palaces, quaint old alleyways, ancient temples, colorful markets, neon shopping districts and verdant mountains, you’ll never run out of things to see and do. This guide will get you started.
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 book considers at its core a series of tragic Korean historical events as civil or internal conflicts and aims to reflect on Korea’s own historical mistakes and errors. In this respect, this study can be categorized as being re-revisionist. This book was written with the conviction that the Korean Peninsula was not divided by other, external powers but separated from within.
This book is the most extensive study in the English language of any of the major nineteenth century rebellions in Korea. Whereas previous research has focused on economic and landlord tenant tensions, suggesting that class animosity was the dominant feature in the political behavior of peasants, Sun Joo Kim explores the role of embittered local elites in providing vital support in the early st…