Korea category: 281 books
Exit Emperor Kim Jong-Il
Notes from His Former Mentor
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival of North Korean society. Th e product of an eight-year study of individuals who observed and worked under Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea for over...
The War for Korea, 1945-1950
A House Burning
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
Choice Outstanding Title
When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and...
by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory...
Hello Asia, Korea
Korea, possessing the spirit of tiger
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Koreans indeed think that the symbolic animal of Korea is the tiger. As there is a saying that goes, you look alike when you live together, Koreans have lived with tigers for a long time to congest the spirit of tigers ourselves. We have learned the "quickly" habit from their brave and swift...
Korea's Syngman Rhee
An Unauthorized Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book of Korean history is an unofficial and exceptionally honest biography of South Korea's deposed chief executive, Syngman Rhee.
Rhee's career spanned the decades between the late-nineteenth-century period of China's suzerainty in Korea and the revolt of April 1960 and reached a peak...
The Invitation-Only Zone
The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earth
For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea, which lasted from 1592 to 1598, was the only occasion in Japanese history when samurai aggression was turned against a foreign country. During the occupation of Korea the Japanese built 25 wajo or castles. Unlike the castles built in Japan, these fortifications...
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979
Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian...
Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea
Affinity in Culture and Politics Since the 1880s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book examines the history of the German-Korean relationship from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nations’ varied encounters with each other during the last years of the Yi dynasty, the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era. With...
Korea's Divided Families
Fifty Years of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family members, most of whom have not seen their relatives since the Korean War. It is the most pressing humanitarian issue between the two Koreas, and is connected...
Bipolar Orders
The Two Koreas since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s. North Korea has experienced severe...
by David E. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Korean Culture Series 7
Seasonal Customs of Korea
The seasonal customs of Korea are the folk traditions of everyday life that have been repeated annually throughout the ages. As such, the residents of a particular community came to share a uniformity of everyday customs by living within...
Crisis in a Divided Korea: A Chronology and Reference Guide
A Chronology and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the reasons for the existence...
South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea
Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the literature on the divide, which deals with state-building on the two sides of the Demilitarized Zone, this book sheds light on the slow, but steady process...