Korea category: 281 books
by Song Hye-jin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Korean Culture Series 11
Confucian Ritual Music of Korea
This book describes in detail the history of “The Rite to Royal Ancestors” the general background of Confucian sacrificial music and dance, and the musical characteristics of two types of sacrificial music transmitted in...
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Von der Kolonie zum geteilten Land
Language: German
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Korea und seine Bevölkerung sind geteilt. Ihre Geschichte kann dennoch nur als gemeinsame geschrieben werden: Von der Kolonisierung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, dem ersten heißen Krieg nach 1945, den geopolitischen Interessen, die den Konflikt geschürt haben, bis zu den Auswirkungen des seit...
A Kim Jong-Il Production
The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the...
Without You, There Is No Us
Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without...
Escape from Camp 14
One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
**With a New Foreword
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.**
North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi...
by Jacques L. Fuqua, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War. What will removing this specter entail? And with what should it be replaced?Similar to the unification...
The Culture of Fengshui in Korea
An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2006
The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water,' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as 'geomancy,' and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and...
Ask A North Korean
Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor—a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur— wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography."...
The Birth of Korean Cool
How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
By now, everyone in the world knows the song "Gangnam Style" and Psy, an instantly recognizable star. But the song's international popularity is no passing...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Tales of tank warfare from Pusan to the Chosin Reservoir, based on interviews with the veterans who were there—from the author of Tanks in Hell.
The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve...
The Impossible State
North Korea, Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
“A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy.” -Foreign Affairs
The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council
In The Impossible...
North Korea under Communism
Report of an Envoy to Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine. What are the reasons behind this peculiar choice of direction? Why did the leaders in Pyongyang pursue a policy abandoned...
by A. Fred
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Korea's Fight for Freedom Originally published in 1920, this is an exhaustive examnation of Korea's struggle for freedom from oppressive Japanese rule. 'In this book I describe the struggle of an ancient people towards liberty. I tell of a Mongol nation, roughly awakened from its long sleep, under...
by Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.
Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household—her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed...