This fiction is story about a magical concoction of fairy tale and poem, delights with its imagery and the spirit of its character. U-il thinks he can fly, like his favourite cartoon character, Toto the Astroboy. His older sister, U-mi, is doing her best to look after him since their mother died and their father deserted them.
This encyclopaedia is an invaluable resources for all those with an interest in Korean culture. The English descriptions and illustration will also help in terms of English and in turn improve their capacity for interpreting Korean matters in English.
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…
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…
This book is a general picture of the Korean Society and traditional culture in an anthropological aspect. As a general introduction to Korean culture, it includes geographical setting of Korean peninsula, historical development of Korean societies from pre-history until modern period, and social customs of Korean people. In the anthropological aspect, the author studies the family and kinsh…
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…
This book explore about the Korean War through a combination of personal interviews with surviving participants and archival research in London and Washington. This book has a major contribution to more than just military history.
The history of Korean Christianity, which has solidified its foundation as the nation's church under the complicated relationship among Korea, the United States, and Japan in the modern age. It has grown until the present-day, unfolds before our very eyes.
Kim Ji-yeong, Lahir Tahun 1982 adalah novel sensasional dari Korea Selatan yang ramai dibicarakan di seluruh dunia. Kisah kehidupan seorang wanita muda yang terlahir di akhir abad ke-20 ini membangkitkan pertanyaan-pertanyaan tentang praktik misoginis dan
The most unique characteristic of the pavilion is that there is no distinction between the inner and outer space. The ultimate purpose is to become one with nature. What makes this possible is the typology of the pavilion – a building constructed with only the structural frame and no walls. The courage to eliminate walls and to create a building with only the most basic frame work would be im…
From tradition to consumption is a ground breaking work that provides a wonderfully innovative and insightful explanation of the eclipse of tradition society and the rise of a new consumer culture during South Korea's recent march to economic development. The book convincingly portrays this shift to cultural modernity as the product of larger state policies on industrialization as well as reaso…
This book can help to broaden and deepen the readers’ appreciation for traditional Korean architecture. The lattice and frame are at the heart of traditional Korean window architecture. The lattice serves an ornamental function through its patterns, and its decorative quality may be either purely formative or symbolic.
This book obeserved about Korea’s traditional architecture, wood and stone, both the two most representatives natural materials. Crooked logs are used as columns, and stone is artificially shaped as little as possible so that it remains close to its natural state. There are two major architectural meanings of natural materials in Korea’s traditional architecture: one is the aesthetic of tem…
book explain about the unique Korean Line, which is referred to as ”seon”, is found in all genres of Korean traditional art. It is embedded in the minds of the Korean people and existed even before the creation of artworks. Seon is an integral part of the vocabulary expressing the innate ”Korean-ness” of our people.
A guide tour in Korea in 1978
This book first provides a thorough historical overview of U.S. and U.N. sanctions against North Korea since 1950. Then, several essay propose ways to make such sanction more politicaly effective while limiting their harmful humanitarian consequences. Finally, the book discusses the impact of the newest, six-nation agreement signed in February 2007 which would shut down North Korea’s nuclear …