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.
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.
J. Scott Burgeson has been described as Korea’s most successful zinester to date, and Korea Bug is a collection of the very best Korea-related material he has produced over the years for his zine Bug. This is a neither uninformed, navel-gazing blogosphere chatter nor swallow, rah-rah propaganda for Korea, Inc., but rather rigorous cultural criticism with a bracing, adrenaline-charged punk spi…
This book explain analysis of the Korean Civil War and of South Korea’s economic ascent. Author refocused attention on Korea as one of the world’s distinctive civilization, not some amalgam of Chinese and Japanese cultures. Cumings deals superbly with the post-1905 years, the causes and impact of the Korean war, the frightening Korean intelligence services, the post-1950s sweatshops and eco…
This book is designed to provide readers with the historical essential upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. The author shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s.
This book will provide with the basic details of many historical characters of Korea. Use the book as a reference whenever you encounter famous names and wish to quickly become conversant in the basis of their popularity.
In the of Korean literature, we can divide women writers into two groups: one group writing their works in Korean; and the other writing their poems in Chinese, the common written language of East Asia. This book is written to reveal the poetic world of thirteen female writers in the latter group who played comparatively active roles in promoting literature. At a time when literary Chinese was …