Korea category: 281 books
A Family of No Prominence
The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite...
Spaces of Possibility
In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington�s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of...
A New Middle Kingdom
Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after a series of devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chos n dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance. This book questions this age-old...
Voice from the North
Resurrecting Regional Identity Through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736)
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in Korea's...
Conscience in Action
The Autobiography of Kim Dae-jung
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book is an English translation of the authoritative autobiography by the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. The 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner, often called the Asian Nelson Mandela, is best known for his tolerant and innovative “Sunshine Policy” towards North Korea.
Written...
by Kim Man-jung, Heinz Insu Fenkl
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
**Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life—presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl
*Named one of the year's most anticipated books by The New York Times, The Millions, and i09***
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Entrepreneurial Seoulite
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990’s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today,...
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR: KIM JONG-UN - A POLITICAL CARTOON
An epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR
KIM JONG-UN – A POLITICAL CARTOON
An epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim.
WHERE THERE IS TYRANNY THERE IS RESISTANCE!
THE 3RD GENERATION SUCCESSOR WILL NOT ESCAPE THE RESISTANCE OF HIS PEOPLE!
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR details the realities...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
How can two countries sharing the same second names be so different from each other? Dig a bit further into the two Korea’s history to understand why these geographic brothers are separated by differences. Make learning fun and interesting by using picture books that feature age-appropriate lessons. Go ahead and grab a copy today!
by I. F. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“A great journalist” raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings (The Baltimore Sun).
“Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing...
In Mortal Combat
Korea, 1950–1953
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
More Than Witnesses is a truly living witness of dedicated missionaries who fought with their body and spirit for peace and justice in Korea.
Virtual Hallyu
Korean Cinema of the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
“[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.”—Martin Scorsese, from the foreword
In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international...
WORK HARD FOR THE KIMS!
An introduction to North Korean history, ideology, and culture through the country's propaganda posters
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The goal of this brief book is to use North Korea’s unique, occasionally beautiful, often threatening propaganda posters to introduce and highlight the country’s history, ideology, and culture. This is not an art critique or an examination of color and painting - the goal is to provoke thought...