Historical Verification of Korea’s Sovereignty Over Ulleungdo and Dokdo

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…

Times Past In Korea: An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Events, Customs…

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,…

Korea: Tradition & Transformation

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.

Dynamic Korea

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.

The New Horizon to Ancient Korean History

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.

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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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.

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”.