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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
In this book present the reader with some dry facts about Corea and the Coreans. Describe the manners and customs of the people as accurately as possible from the impressions which my visit to their country left upon me, but of course I do not claim that these personal opinionsexpressed are absolutely infallible.
Korea Old and New a History is an attempt to meet the need for a general history of Korea that provides detailed treatment of the post- 1945 period while at the same time describing at some length the traditional historical-cultural milieu from wich modern Korea has developed.
The 21 st century is the age of culture, and thus cultural competition will be ever tense among countries. The internal or regional diversity in a national cultural is the necessity for a nation to develop its own cultural capability. If Koreans comprehend their own national culture as a mixture of many regional cultures, they will be more prepared to adapt themselves to the process 0f globaliz…
In this book present the reader with some dry facts about Corea and the Coreans. Describe the manners and customs of the people as accurately as possible from the impressions which a visit to their country.
This book is introduction about history of Korea. Korea was a power in East Asia and once ruled much of Manchuria. The kingdom of Goguryeo was successful in repelling the aggression of China’s Sui Dynasti and Tang Dynasti, while the kingdom of Balhae ruled over a vast territory extending to the north as far as Siberia (Russian Maritime Territory). Throughout history, Korea not only developed …
The original Korean version of this book is Ulleungdo-wa Dokdo, Geu Yeoksa-jeok Geomjeung (Yeoksa Gonggan, 2010) . This book will contribute to enchancing the accuracy of our understanding and perception of the sovereignty and history of Dokdo. The Korean National Assembly Library intends to continue to make every effort to share information on Dokdo and its history with the international commu…
This collection covers a period of over 400 years – from Hendrik Hamel’s jornel of the 1600s to early twentieth-century records like those of Roy C. Andrews’ 1918 account of his expedition entitled Exploring Unknown Corners of the ’Hermit Kingdon’. In this unique collection of writings and records of time past in Korea – the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country,…
This book is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Korean people, offering Western readers a synthesis of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to present. This book will fill the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume Korean history which has existed for a long time.
This book show the national image of Korea, contains vivid images of all parts of Korea today, from the cities to the countryside to the islands that surround the peninsula. This book also has many photographs of the nation’s unpolluted natural landscape and traditional culture.
This book written by the author, makes the assertion that the culture of Mago Castle on the Pamirs dates more than 70,000 years ago, and that members of this race gradually migrated throughout the world, transplanting their culture to the colonies as they went.