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 …
This book considers at its core a series of tragic Korean historical events as civil or internal conflicts and aims to reflect on Korea’s own historical mistakes and errors. In this respect, this study can be categorized as being re-revisionist. This book was written with the conviction that the Korean Peninsula was not divided by other, external powers but separated from within.
This Guidebook will help more people visit Joseon royal tombs are one of the most unique cultural heritages throughout the 519-year long dynasty. Readers will get a better understanding of their cultural and historic value of Joseon royal tombs. They aptly reflect its history, culture of death and descendents' solemn ritual ceremonies.
This book manly with materials related to the foundation of various old Korean kingdoms, to the factual history of the Silla Kingdom, and to the lives of famous Korean Buddhist monks. This book not only present various myths and legends that reveal the phases of Korean ancestors’ old social life, economy, culture, and thoughts, but also furnishes ample data on their traditional manners and cu…
This volume present 29 original articles carefully selected from the Korea Journal that cover all periods of Korean History. The articles, spanning various fields and chosen under the guidance of Professor Yi Tae-Jin, are arranged into five major periods: 1) Ancient, 2) Goryeo, 3) Joseon, 4) Modern, and 5) Colonial and Post-Liberation. Though the compilation aims to cover a wide range of fields…
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 …
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.
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…