Korea category: 281 books
The Last Days of Kim Jong-il
The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
North Korea has remained a thorn in the side of the United States ever since its creation in the aftermath of the Korean conflict of 1950û1953. Crafting a foreign policy that effectively deals with North Korea, while still ensuring stability and security on the Korean Peninsulaùand in Northeast...
by Andre Schmid
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2002
Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state,...
by Stephen R. Taaffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Wedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War—which began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June of 1950—possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter. Most Americans supported defending South Korea, but there...
by Jeon Kyung-wook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Korean Culture Series 10
Traditional Performing Arts of Korea
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical background, genres, and performers of the traditional performing arts of Korea, such as puppet plays, mask dramas, and Pansori, a uniquely Korean form of narrative...
The Northern Region of Korea
History, Identity, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the southern provinces. The making and legitimating of centralized Korean nation-states over...
Project Eagle
The American Christians of North Korea in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of Project Eagle, the forgotten alliance between that movement and the Office of Strategic...
Elusive Belonging
Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage migration—crossing national borders for marriage—has attracted significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new destination countries, which grapple with how to...
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
The harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for...
A Thousand Miles to Freedom
My Escape from North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.
By...
Korea
A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.
Fascinating for its vivid presentation of...
North Korea Confidential
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
****Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.**
North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family,...
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda
What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?
Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear...
Times Past in Korea
An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Customs and Daily Life Recorded by Foreign Visitors
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In earlier times, for the Chinese, Korea was 'the country of courteous people from the east', and for westerners 'the land of the morning calm' or 'hermit kingdom'. In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country, providing...