Korea category: 281 books

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea. Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention. Who...

This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays,...

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel, the imaginary border between the North...

Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned the country’s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese...

In May 2017, the day after Moon Jae-in was elected as president of South Korea, Ryuho Okawa used his extraordinary spiritual power (similar to but surpassing Shakyamuni Buddha’s) and summoned Moon’s guardian spirit, namely his subconscious mind, to have him speak his opinion. In a subsequent spiritual...

Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed...

是統一或和平相處？我們都很想知道。 這是一本理解韓國人性格及文化的必讀之作！ 韓國──一個令人又愛又恨的國家，從蕞爾小國躍進世界舞台， 不斷創造經濟、文化奇蹟，讓世人無法忽視它的影響力。 《新韓國人：從稻田躍進矽谷的現代奇蹟創造者》是最深入、最全面的韓國觀察報告， 從宏觀角度探索歷史、觀察社會、剖析文化，刻劃最真實的南韓面貌！ 來自首爾現場的剖析與未來預言；看過這本書，你會比韓國人更了解韓國！ 韓國人是什麼人？他們是什麼樣子？韓國是已開發國家中生育率最低、自殺率最高的國家，為什麼韓國人不快樂？《新韓國人》檢視外界如何看待他們，而其「國民性格」受到什麼影響，又是如何從落後、貧窮和殘酷經歷中崛起？作者麥可‧布林提供來自首爾現場的深入觀察，帶領讀者了解南韓這個迷人國家的歷史、特色，以及未來的發展，並跨越非軍事區，到北韓一探究竟。 不過幾十年前，南韓還是貧窮的農業國家，卻在短短一個世代內從田野走到矽谷。這是經由三個出人意料的奇蹟實現：經濟發展、民主化，以及受到全球關注的文化新勢力。如今南韓不僅是人們出國旅遊的熱門選項，韓劇、流行音樂、電視節目、飲食等文化的輸入，更已浸潤至台灣人生活的日常。而這個國度歷史發展十分複雜，造就了他們寧願遺忘某些過往，專注未來、剛烈鮮明的民族性。 本書作者麥可‧布林自1980年代起即擔任美國《華盛頓時報》的駐首爾記者，長期觀察南北韓情勢，以及社會、文化、政治等議題，於《衛報》、《華盛頓時報》、《泰晤士報》分析韓國脈動。此後定居首爾，對於韓國一路的轉變與發展，持續有第一線的直接觀察。不僅出版許多韓國主題作品，於2004年出版的《韓國人》（The...

Divided Dynamism presents a cogent and comprehensive review of the political and unification policies of separated nations. This book relates a brief historical capsule about each divided nation, illustrates the socio/economic dynamic of the divide, and offers a searing and poignant political synthesis...

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans...

The Joseon dynasty ruled Korea for over half a millennium, bequeathing to Korea a considerable cultural heritage. This book will examine three of the better-known areas of Joseon cultural heritage: royal palaces, royal tombs, and the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty. Standing in the heart of Seoul, the...

When Vickie Spring promised her dad who had served in both WWII and the Korean War, that she would one day write his story and the others with whom he served, she never imagined the challenges that lay ahead of her. After months of searching, thirteen men were found that had fought in Korea alongside...

Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his “discovery” of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine...

Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...