Facts About Korea

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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.

Modern and Contemporary Art In Korea

This book deals with the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity in modern and contemporary art in Korea. Frequently debated in newspaper and magazine articles, these issues are keys to understanding modern and contemporary art trends in Korea. Recently, as East Asian Contemporary art has been introduced more regularly on the world stage, talented Korean artist have been invited to large-s…

Handbook of Korean Art: Folk Painting

This new five-volume series is designed to provide the reader with a comprehensive, up-to-date and readable introduction to major aspects of Korea’s rich artistic heritage: Buddhist sculpture, folk painting, t’ogi and ch’ongja (earthenware & celadon), and paekja (white porcelain) & punch’ong ware. Other topics will follow in successive volumes. Based on their extensive knowledge and re…

Markets: Traditional Korean Society

Traditional markets show us a slice of society but to see this we need an understanding of the markets of the past: when markets began to appear, how they developed, how they changed as they became assimilated into the capitalist system. In other words, we need to look over the history of Korean markets.

Norigae: Splendor of the Korea Costume

This book is introduction about the Norigae. Norigae is a decorative pendant hung from the outer or inner breast-tie of the short upper garment (jeogori), or sashes of the traditional Korean women’s custome called ”handbok”. It was an accessory item exclusive to the Joseon dynasty and was made of precious materials such a gold, silver or jade. The decorative designs and ornamental detail…

Folk Culture in korea

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Pop Goes Korea: Behind The Revolution In Movies, Music, and Internet Culture

South Korea came from nowhere in the 1990s to become one of the biggest producers of pop content in Asia-and the West. Now, the former underdog of the international pop scene sets trends in music, movies, comic books, TV dramas, and online gaming for the rest of the world to follow. Veteran reporter-at-large James Russell tells and exciting story of rapid growth and wild success marked by an un…

Faces of Korea: The Foreign Experience in The Land of The Morning Calm

This book is a unique collection of 47 interviews with people from more than 20 countries on five continents. Written in a narrative format, which makes reading the interviews as enthralling as it does educational, subjects in the book include working in Korea, reomantic relations with Koreans, people of Korean descent, teaching in Korea, learning in Korea, and people who have made Korea their …

Governance reform in Indonesia and Korea : a comparative perspective

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xiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Pathfinder in Korean III: High Intermediate - Student Book

Pathfinder in Korean consists of three texts and supplemental materials for begining to intermediate students who wish to study Korean as a foreign language. Integrating the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, dan writing, Pathfinder in Korean III consists of 15 units. Each unit introduces a Reading and Writing section, four sections of Activities, two sections of Tasks, and a Language…

Korea Observer Vol. 46 No. 2, Summer 2015

Korea Observer Vol. 46 No. 2, Summer 2015 contents: Another Look At Partisan Polarization In The South Korean Mass Public: Ideological or Affective Polarization by Jae Mook Lee; A Model On The Rise And Decline Of South Korean Anti-American Sentiment by Kisuk Cho; Development Of Publicly-Funded Social Care In Japan and Korea: Policy Linkage Between Social Care Programs and Labor Market Policies …