Kim Young: 70 books

Written by Kim Young-jin, one of Korea's foremost film critics, the book-which includes interviews, a biography, filmography and synopses-examines the cinematic world of Lee Chang-dong, widely hailed as one of Korea's top directors, despite having produced only four films to date. Lee's films embrace...

One Day, Then Another is dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless. His poetic task is to find a way to honor the weak and disenfranchised. He does not rush headlong to expose them, but takes small cautious steps through the cracks into the hidden world. Then, in full empathy, he becomes part of that...

Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities. In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication...

"Je n’ai jamais beaucoup réfléchi à la manière dont je mourrais – même si, ces derniers mois, j’aurais eu toutes les raisons de le faire… C’était sûrement une bonne façon d’en terminer… à la place d’un autre, d’un que j’aimais."  Quand Isabella Swan emménage...

Created by the Korean Film Council, this series offers deep insight into key directors in Korean film, figures who are not only broadening the range of art and creativity found in Korean-produced commercial films but also gaining increasingly strong footholds in international markets.

En emménageant dans la ville de Forks, Isabella Swan était loin de s’imaginer qu’elle tomberait amoureuse d’un vampire ! À peine a-t-elle rencontré le beau et ténébreux Edward Cullen que sa vie a pris un tournant à la fois palpitant et terrifiant. Mais comment nos deux amants vont-ils...

Rejetée par celui qu'elle aime passionnément, Bella ne s'en relève pas. Fascinée par un vampire, comment pourra-t-elle retrouver goût à la pâle existence humaine ? Bella n'a de goût pour rien, sinon le danger : alors, elle entend la voix d'Edward, et éprouve l'illusion de sa présence. Comme...

Originally written in Korean and translated into English, QUEST FOR FREEDOM covers Young-hwan Kim's activities as the leading student activist in South Korea in the 1980s. It chronicles Kim's efforts—past and present—to reach out to the international community for support for his mission to free...

"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way." ---Charles...

The book is a collection of texts by the late former President of the Republic of Korea and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kim Dae-jung, along with contributions by other authors including the late former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker. The manuscript aims to explore...

1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of...

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms — until now. Written in a style both intelligible and enjoyable for the global audience, The Great Equal Society distils the core ideas of the major Confucian classics and shows how their...

A “mesmerizing” novel of a love triangle and a mysterious disappearance in South Korea (Booklist). In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same beguiling drifter, Se-yeon, who gives herself freely to both of them. Then, just...

In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. It is well known that Italian Renaissance artists traveled; this book considers...