Korea category: 281 books
Letters From Joseon
19th Century Korea through the Eyes of an American Ambassador's Wife
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
John Mahelm Berry Sill's role as the American Minister to Korea (1894-1897) is one of controversy. He has been described as weak, ineffective, and reluctant by some and as independent, proactive, and alert by others, depending on the researcher. He served during an extremely turbulent period of Korean...
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan
The Politics of Antiquity and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators�and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced as tangible sources of immense national pride...
Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction
The Ventriloquists
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction is a compilation of thirteen original essays which was first serialized in a quarterly issued by the National Institute of Korean Language, Saekukŏsaenghwal (Living our National Language Anew) in a column entitled, “Our Fiction, Our Language” between 2004...
by Homer B. Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The History of Korea Vol 1 of 2 is the first part of Hulbert's history of the nation.
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis�successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and...
by Alexander Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
When North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, the US Army went to war with the same small arms it had used during World War II. This book examines the various weapons used by the US Army during the Korean War, ranging from .38-caliber revolvers to M1 carbines to the famed Browning Automatic...
Korea and Her Neighbours.
A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country. With a Preface by Sir Walter C. Hillier.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica oof 1898 edition by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York - Chicago - Toronto. This is an illustrated edition. Oversize maps are available as a free download. This book was written by a remarkable woman, Isabella Bird Bishop, an independent British Victorian lady...
An Affair with Korea
Memories of South Korea in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp�o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp�o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences...
The 1728 Musin Rebellion
Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Yŏngjo (1694–1776; r. 1724–1776), and the largest rebellion of eighteenth-century Korea. The rebellion proved unsuccessful,...
It's Madness
The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
It’s Madness examines Korea’s years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most Korean families to conceal the mentally...
Past Forward
Essays in Korean History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals, social developments and cultural shifts. Adapted from Kyung Moon Hwang’s regular columns in the ‘Korea...
Buddhas and Ancestors
Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism...
by Homer B. Hulbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The History of Korea Vol 1 of 2 is the second part of Hulbert's history of the nation.
by Msgr Father Arthur Tonne
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Emil Joseph Kapaun (1916–1951) was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II, then served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where...