The Expatriate Handbook: Seoul, Korea

This handbook provides as much assistance to you as can expatriate living in Seoul as it has for me in compiling it. This handbook has been designed as a starting point, for the expatriate to receive a quicker, more thorough bearing and understanding of the city in which they live and work. It is aimed that this handbook will allow individuals and families to settle more quickly and smoothly, h…

Korea Bug

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…

Korea’s Place In The Sun: A Modern History

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…

Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey

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.

Koreans To Remember: 50 Famous People Who Helped Shape Korea

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.

The Poetic World of Classic Korean Women Writers

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 …

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Prince…

These memoirs offer a compelling account of one of the most tragic tales in the history of the Korean court. Lady hyegyong, the author of these memoirs, married Crown Price Sado when both were just nine years old. Lady Hyegyong's memoirs are a fascinating private view of partriarchal Korean royalty and of how an extraordinary woman, having survived horrific male power struggles, transformed pe…

A Peep Into Korea

"A Peep into Korea" is a humorous yet thoughtful story of travel that documents the sporadic adventures Hayes have taken through South Korea over the past five years. Traveling with his wife Sooki, a native of Korea, he has enjoyed an insider's view of the nation, a perspective essential for truly understanding it. His travels in Korea have touched both popular tourist destinations and remote c…

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. Winchester’s gift for capturing engaging characters in true, compelling stories provides us with a treasury of enchanting and informed insight on the culture, language, history, and politics of this little-known corner of Asia. With a new introduction by the author, Korea is a beautiful journey through a mysterious country…

Facts About Korea

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Deskripsi Fisik

191 hlm.; ilus.; 20 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Facts About Korea

Edisi

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Deskripsi Fisik

246 hlm.; ilus.; 20 cm

Judul Seri

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Toy City

Toy City, a poignant coming-of-age story of a fourth-grade boy named Yun, depicts the life of a poor family struggling to survive in the years immediately after the Korean War. An autobiographical work, the novel is written entirely from young Yun’s point of view.

Shaman Ritual Music in Korea

This book is more interested in defining and defending ”biblical truth” than in a cross-cultural and comparative analysis of Korea shamanism and Korean Christianity from the history of religion or phenomenology of a religious point of view. The author sets out the criteria for judging the value of traditional Korean religions and spirituality from the Christian point of view: ”In other wo…

Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity: P…

This volume documents how identity has been negotiated by musicians, composers and audiences. Until recently, references to tradition were common and, by critics and musicologists, required. Western music increasingly encroached on the market for Korean music and doubts were raised about the future of any music identifiably Korean.

Preserving Korean Music: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity:…

In this book, Keith Howard provides the first comprehensive analysis in English of the system. He documents court music and dance, Confucian and shaman ritual music, folksongs, the professional folk-art genres of p’ansori (’epic storytelling through song’) and sanjo (’scattered melodies’), and more, as well as instrument making, food preparation and liquor distilling – a good perfor…

Korean Cinema: From Origins to Renaissance

This anthology was compiled for the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)’s English-language website to provide foreigners with a better understanding of and easier access to Korean films. Various topics appropriate to the brief essay format best suited to the web were selected for the chapters on the ten different periods of Korean film history.

Four Contemporary Korean Plays

This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea’s leading theatre artists. These works reflect the nature of Lee Yun-Taek’s genius, his contributions to contemporary Korean theatre, and the socio-political climate in South Korea during the release of this early works. They are indeed “brief chronicles of their time”.

P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance

The first full-length book to introduce Korean drumming and dance to the English-speaking world, Nathan Hesselink’s P’ungmul offers detailed descriptions of its instrumentation, dance formations, costuming, characters, teaching lineages, and the complexities of training. Hesselink also evaluates how this tradition has taken on new roles and meanings in the twentieth and early twenty-first c…

Korean Dance

This book deals with the dances that were traditionally performed in the Royal courts and among ordinary people, the dance that were put on stage before and after the country’s liberation in 1945, as well as the Korean dances that are performed on the international stage. Therefore, this book is written with intention of building a bridge beetwen the present and past roots of traditional Kore…

Korean Mask Dance

This book is introduction to Korean mask dance. It explain briefly what Korean mask dance is all about and explores its roots as a form of drama. The two tasks may at first seem incompatible but readers need to understand the essence of this unique form of drama if they are to enjoy it properly, instead of just looking at it with fleeting curiosity.