Korea category: 281 books
Pop Goes Korea
Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music and Internet Culture (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Today, most everyone has heard of South Korean pop culture. The flashy, exciting world of K-pop, like BTS, Exo, Twice and 2NE1 (and, yes, Psy's "Gangnam Style"). Hit movies like Oldboy, Train to Busan, and The Host. Addicting TV dramas like Jewel in the Palace, My Love From the Star, and...
Patriots, Traitors and Empires
The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North...
South Korea at the Crossroads
Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Against the backdrop of China’s mounting influence and North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder examines the...
North Korea
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though Kim's pronouncement appears premature, North...
China’S Military Intervention in Korea:
Its Origins and Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
This study examines how and why Chinas military intervention in the Korean War came into existence within the time span from May 1949 to July 1951. China was involved in the war preparations much earlier and deeper than was previously known. Beijings preconditions to enter the war boiled down to three:...
An Asian Frontier
American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea...
Korea: The Impossible Country
South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today." —Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea
In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from...
A Geek in Korea
Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
For every fan of K-Pop music, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi—or anyone intrigued by Korea and Korean culture—A Geek in Korea is a hip, new guide to the land of the Samsung smartphone and Gangnam Style.
Author Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea on the eve of the 2002 World Cup when South Korea...
Transgression in Korea
Beyond Resistance and Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party, the criminal negligence of the owner and...
by Andrew Scobell, John M. Sanford, Daniel A. Pinkston
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special...
Split Screen Korea
Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to...
In Order to Live
A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.”
Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive...
Nuclear North Korea
A Debate on Engagement Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen...
North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the...