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  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    Translated by David Tian ...
    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 the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • A Geek in Korea

    Discovering Asia's New Kingdom of Cool

    by Daniel Tudor ...
    For every fan of K-Pop music, Korean Wave dramas and Kimchi—or anyone intrigued by Korea and Korean culture—A Geek in Korea is a hip, new guide to the land of the Samsung smartphone and Gangnam Style.Author Dan Tudor first arrived in Korea on the eve of the 2002 World Cup when South Korea played Italy in the finals. What he saw inspired him to return and work in Korea. He served as The Economist ... Read more

    7,52 €

  • Five Broken Blades

    Discover the Sunday Times bestselling adventure fantasy filled with assassins, betrayal and magic

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 1 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDFive ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop inspired by Korean myth and legend'This dazzling fantasy has it all: a richly developed world, a captivating ensemble cast, and a twisty, action-packed quest' KAREN ... Read more

    5,40 €

  • Polarizing Dreams

    Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea

    Series series Asia Pop!
    Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. It is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of Seoul’s middle class, producing in ... Read more

    24,58 €

  • Crisis in a Divided Korea

    A Chronology and Reference Guide

    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.Why is Korea still divided into two nations? How does the decades-old tension between North Korea and South Korea affect all of Asia as well as influence several of the world's ... Read more

    78,32 €

  • Rewriting Revolution

    Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

    by Immanuel Kim ...
    North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering ... Read more

    59,03 €

  • Canada and the Korean War

    Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict

    Edited by Andrew Burtch, Tim Cook ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    Korea was the first hot war of the Cold War. It was also Canada’s most significant military engagement of the twentieth century following the two world wars. Canada and the Korean War gathers leading scholars to explore the key themes and battles of a seminal yet understudied conflict.Canada had little stake and less interest in Korea before 1950, but the risk the conflict posed to the fragile ... Read more

    25,96 €

  • Spaces of Possibility

    In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan

    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of the past in the present, the social possibilities that emerge out of the seemingly impossible new ... Read more

    36,88 €

  • The US-DPRK Peace Treaty: A Commentary

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book delivers an in-depth analysis of the US-DPRK Peace Treaty which will be concluded as a final result of the Korean Peninsula peace process that is currently ongoing. Since North Korea launched its nuclear weapons development program in the early 1990s, the Korean peninsula has become a critical point of global politics along with the Sino-American (G2) hegemonic competition. The US-DPRK ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • 비극한국사와 연관된 세계사

    한국의 비극적인 역사는 세계사와 깊이 연관되어 있으며, 그 관계는 지정학적 위치, 국제적 힘의 균형, 그리고 세계사적 사건들이 한국에 미친 영향을 통해 이해할 수 있습니다. 아래에서 한국 비극 역사와 세계사 간의 관계를 주요 관점에서 살펴봅니다. 한국 비극의 역사는 세계사와 밀접하게 얽혀 있습니다. 한반도의 비극적 사건들은 단순히 국내의 문제로 국한되지 않고, 동아시아와 세계의 정치·경제·군사적 변동 속에서 발생했습니다. 이는 한국이 세계사의 흐름 속에서 어떤 위치에 있었는지를 이해하는 데 중요한 통찰을 제공합니다.역사는 단순히 과거를 배우는 것이 아니라, 우리 자신과 사회, 그리고 성장 가능성을 더 잘 이해하기 위한 도구입니다.역사를 통해 우리는 과거의 성공과 실패에서 배울 수 있습니다. 이를 통해 같은 ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeds of Control

    Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century KoreaJapanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting ... Read more

    24,58 €

  • The Mask That Remembers

    by Jack Han ...
    In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Korea's most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge between the living and the dead. Carved from lightning-struck trees and worn by shamans, fools, and rebels, these wooden faces have laughed away plagues, mocked tyrants, and given voice to restless ghosts—all while the ... Read more

    12,50 €

  • Unexpected Alliances

    Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea

    by Young-a Park ...
    Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural and institutional roots of the Korean film industry's phenomenal success in the context of Korea's ... Read more

    45,04 €

  • Privileged but Powerless

    How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime's Greatest Weakness

    by Jieun Baek ...
    A compelling examination of North Korea’s elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime’s futureJieun Baek’s second book on North Korea is a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harbored by the country’s elite. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek examines how members of this ... Read more

    31,15 €

  • Millennial North Korea

    Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just over a decade, with over 7 million registered as of 2022. This expansion took ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • Spiritual Interview with the Guardian Spirit of New South Korean President Moon Jae-In

    The True Intentions Behind His Korean Unification (Spiritual Interview Series)

    by Ryuho Okawa ...
    In May 2017, the day after Moon Jae-in was elected as president of South Korea, Ryuho Okawa used his extraordinary spiritual power (similar to but surpassing Shakyamuni Buddha’s) and summoned Moon’s guardian spirit, namely his subconscious mind, to have him speak his opinion. In a subsequent spiritual investigation, it was found that Moon is the rebirth of Mussolini, who also led a peninsular ... Read more

    10,30 €

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 2 (Illustrated)

    Series Book 2 - Korean Folk Tales (Illustrated)
    To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator, and he gives them now ... Read more

    2,72 €

  • 平和憲法をめぐる理想と現実

    理論と実践をめぐる問題は、今日まで、国際政治において、きわめて重要な問題のひとつであった。理論を探求するものからすれば、現実の実務家(Practioners)は、あまりにも俗物的であり、愚かに見えるのに対し、現実に対処する実務家の立場から、学者(Sholars)はあまりにも、観念的であり、無責任にみえる。したがって、往々にして、双方が相手を非難、批判する傾向がつよかった。戦後日本の政治において、このことが、端的にあらわれたのが、戦後日本の総理大臣をつとめた吉田茂と、東京大学総長の南原繁の対立であった。この対立は、単に二人の、個人的次元の対立にとどまらず、その後の日本の進路において、きわめて大きな影響をもたらした。 ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Destiny

    The Secret Operations of the Yodogō Exiles

    In 1970, nine members of a Japanese New Left group called the Red Army Faction hijacked a domestic airliner to North Korea with dreams of acquiring the military training to bring about a revolution in Japan. The North Korean government accepted the hijackers—who became known in the media as the Yodogō group, based on the name of the hijacked plane—and two years later they announced their ... Read more

    20,55 €

  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    by Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Read more

    61,47 €

  • THE GREAT SUCCESSOR: KIM JONG-UN - A POLITICAL CARTOON

    An epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim

    Series Book 1 - DPRK Dictators
    THE GREAT SUCCESSORKIM JONG-UN – A POLITICAL CARTOONAn epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim.WHERE THERE IS TYRANNY THERE IS RESISTANCE!THE 3RD GENERATION SUCCESSOR WILL NOT ESCAPE THE RESISTANCE OF HIS PEOPLE!THE GREAT SUCCESSOR details the realities of the recent succession of Kim Jong-Un as leader of the DPRK.From propaganda engines to “trusted” news sources, ... Read more

    9,09 €

  • The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations

    The Korean Question Revisited

    by Jongwoo Han ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations
    This book contends that the long history of America’s interaction with Korea started with the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation in 1882, and with the establishment of the Seward-Shufeldt Line. William Seward and Robert Shufeldt shared the same vision of achieving their American goal by opening Korea and extending the Seward-Shufeldt Line from Alaska to link it with ... Read more

    32,11 €

  • Reconstructing Bodies

    Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945

    by John DiMoia ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure in the Republic of Korea (ROK) from 1945 to the present, arguing that the plastic ... Read more

    57,34 €

  • Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the construction of the anticommunist national identity ... Read more

    22,89 €