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Five Broken Blades

The Birth of Korean Cool

Four Ruined Realms

The Great Successor

Three Shattered Souls

Escape from Camp 14

Korea: The Impossible Country

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

Globalizing the Soybean

The Border - A Journey Around Russia

Violets

Shrimp to Whale

A Concise History of Korea

The Korean War in Asia

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone

East Asia at the Center

Our Time

Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea

The Return Journeys of Koryo Saram

Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites

City of Sediments

Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010

Korean Folk Dance

MacArthur's Korean War Generals