Facts About Korea

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.

North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

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.

The Discovery of Korea

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.

Third Millenium of Korean History

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Korea Today

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.

Seoul: A Window Into Korean Culture

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…

Seoul

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.

New History of Korea

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.

The Politics of Separation of The Korean Peninsula, 1943-1953

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.

Marginality And Subversion In Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812

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…

Visits To The Kings: Guidebook of Royal Tombs of The Joseon Dynasty

This Guidebook will help more people visit Joseon royal tombs are one of the most unique cultural heritages throughout the 519-year long dynasty. Readers will get a better understanding of their cultural and historic value of Joseon royal tombs. They aptly reflect its history, culture of death and descendents' solemn ritual ceremonies.

Overlooked Historical Records of the Three Korean Kingdoms

This book manly with materials related to the foundation of various old Korean kingdoms, to the factual history of the Silla Kingdom, and to the lives of famous Korean Buddhist monks. This book not only present various myths and legends that reveal the phases of Korean ancestors’ old social life, economy, culture, and thoughts, but also furnishes ample data on their traditional manners and cu…

Korean History: Discovery of Its Characteristics and Developments

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…

The Partition of Korea After World War II: A Global History

Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English, and Korean, including new archival evidence from Moscow, this book seeks to provide this understanding. Taking into account not only the policies of the Soviet Union and the United States but also the roles played by the Koreans themselves, Jongsoo lee untangles the complex dynamics of the Korean partition, placing this partition in…

Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953

This book bringing reality to the experiences of the Canadian infantry in Korea, author leave for the reader to decide. Using rigorous archival research and oral accounts, Far Eastern Tour follows the experiences of Canadian soldiers from the time they responded to the government’s call to arms to the indifferent reaction to their homecoming a year later. Dealing with the fiasco surrounding r…

The Korean War: An Exhaustive Chronology Volume 2

This reference work is the definitive chronology of the Korean War. It covers in-depth the day-by-day events, major and minor, of all combatants, including the United States, Great Britain, South Korea and other U.N. allies; North Korea; China; and the Soviet Union. Truly comprehensive, it details the war in the air, at sea and on land, with the actions of participating units, commanders and ci…

The Korean War: An Exhaustive Chronology Volume 1

This reference work is the definitive chronology of the Korean War. It covers in-depth the day-by-day events, major and minor, of all combatants, including the United States, Great Britain, South Korea and other U.N. allies; North Korea; China; and the Soviet Union. Truly comprehensive, it details the war in the air, at sea and on land, with the actions of participating units, commanders and ci…

Into The Vortex Of War: A Korean Interpreter’s Close Encounter With The Enemy

This is the true story of one man's inspired struggle for his freedom during the Korean War. he was a college student supporting him self with a night job in Seoul, South Korea when it was invaded by North Korea. Trapped in the occupied city, he was starving and penniless. This book was completed just weeks before his untimely death in 1997. Now the editor, his daughter, published his writing t…

Korean Philosophy: Its Tradition and Modern Transformation

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 …

Catatan Perang Korea

Buku Catatan Perang Korea ini ditulis pada dekade awal tahun 1950-1n. Pada waktu Mochtar Lubis berangkat ke Korea atas undangan dari PBB (Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa) yang memberikannya kesempatan untuk meliput perang sebagai wartawan perang yang diakreditasi oleh PBB, dan ijin dari Panglima perang Amerika yang terkenal itu: Jendral Mac Arthur. Ia berangkat dari Jakarta pada tanggal 21 September…