Korea category: 281 books
Corée du Sud : Le goût du miracle
L'Âme des Peuples
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Laminée par la guerre au début des années 1950, la Corée du Sud a construit son miracle asiatique à la force de son peuple. Écrit par un journaliste habitué à côtoyer les chaebols, ces grands conglomérats à l’origine...
Reckless
Pride of the Marines
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Reckless was a horse who became a member of the Marines during the Korean War. She carried ammunition and was cited for her bravery under fire.
Beloved by the Marines, she was decorated and promoted to sergeant. At the end of the war the Marines had her shipped to the U.S. for retirement.
Inch'on 1950
The last great amphibious assault
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Inch'on was probably the most significant campaign in the Korean theater, as well as being the last major amphibious assault of division-size conducted in the history of warfare. The odds were stacked against the US troops, with virtually no time for training and many of the divisions unprepared for...
La guerre de Corée
L'origine des conflits fratricides entre Nord et Sud
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la guerre de Corée en moins d’une heure !
Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Coréens fêtent leur libération du joug japonais, persuadés qu’ils pourront enfin revivre. Hélas, c’est sans compter le contexte de froide rivalité...
Korean P'ansori Singing Tradition
Development, Authenticity, and Performance History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p’ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. P’ansori is a music genre—an oral tradition comprisingi arias...
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes...
Our Time
Training, Deploying, and Combat with Company C, 2Nd Battalion, 47Th Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The 9th Infantry Division was formed in a new and unique way in 1966. Traditionally, soldiers attended basic training on one Army post, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at another, then reported to their units to begin serving with soldiers they had never met. The 9th was different. Recruits reported...
Schaduwoorlog
Israël en het geheime liquidatieprogramma van de Mossad
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Het instinct om het Joodse volk te beschermen zit in het dna van Israël. Vanaf 1948 is de beveiliging van het land in handen van de inlichtingendiensten en het leger, met in hun arsenaal een zeer beproefd wapen: liquidaties. Dit spannende en onthullende boek geeft een unieke inkijk in de liquidatieprogramma's...
The Korean War in Asia
A Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts in the region and examines the human impact of the war on neighboring countries, focusing particularly on the ways in...
by Hildi Kang
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Sindeok, the First Queen of the Joseon Dynasty
Heavy, intricately carved tombstones are embedded in the banks of theCheonggyecheon Stream that cuts through downtown Seoul, in the shadows of the Gwangtonggyo Bridge, echoing the story of their owner, Queen Sindeok, the first of the Joseon Dynasty....
by Mark Chung Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual)....
by 蔡增家
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 1, 2016
《上一堂最好玩的日本學》作者創意披露，最獨到的韓國觀察！
24部最夯韓劇＋生動彩色插圖＋獨到又幽默的分析，帶你一次看透韓國！
《未生》《來自星星的你》《商道》《愛在異鄉》《海德、哲基爾與我》……這些熱門韓劇背後，
究竟隱含多少關於韓國的實際樣態？隱藏了多少韓劇沒說的真相？
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Korean American Pioneer Aviators
The Willows Airmen
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Korean American Pioneer Aviators: The Willows Airmen is the untold story of the brave Korean men who took to the skies more than twenty years before the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II. The tale of the Willows Aviation School connects Korean, American, and Korean American aviation history....
The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an...