Korea category: 281 books
Our Korea Connection
An Australian couple's amazing story of a calling to rural Korea in the early 70's and its continuing connection to their lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
“I really don’t want to go to Korea! It’s a freezing cold, colourless place where people only wear khaki and fight wars!”
For two, fourth generation Australians in the early 1970’s, the only vision of Korea they had was from recalling newspaper articles about the Korean War in the 1950’s,...
by Hyung-A Kim
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim provides a new narrative in the complex...
Nuclear North Korea
A Debate on Engagement Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation...
North Korea's Hidden Revolution
How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The story of North Korea's information underground and how it inspires people to seek better lives beyond their country’s borders One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media...
by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.
Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood...
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Freedom's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism...
Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea
Landscape as Political Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Environmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s “revolutionary” industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the...
All Monsters Must Die
An Excursion to North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.
In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, orders the kidnapping of the greatest South...
by Seungsook Moon, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the...
A Concise History of Modern Korea
From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century. Placing this formerly insular society in a global context, Michael J. Seth describes...
China–South Korea Relations in the New Era
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive examination of China–South Korea relations after their diplomatic normalization in 1992, paying close attention to the most recent controversies in the bilateral relationship after the turn of the century. Inspired by the sharp contrast between their booming economic...
Nation Building in South Korea
Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when Korea became entangled in the world of modern imperialism and the old social, economic and political order began to change; this handbook brings together cutting edge scholarship on major themes in Korean History. Contributions by experts in the field cover...
The Great Enterprise
Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics...