Featuring translations of terms from Korean, Chinese and Japanese this dictionary is a must have for any serious martial arts practitioner.The modern martial artist requires more than a mere vocabulary listing. The modern practitioner wants an indepth exploration not only of the equivalency of meaning but also the cultural and historical background of the terms relevant to the martial arts. To answer that need, this dictionary includes:Over 7,100 of ...

Take Your Ministry Beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural FluencyIn Thriving Intercultural Ministry, specialist Pablo Kim Sun draws on years of intercultural ministry experience to guide churches and ministries beyond multicultural good intentions to genuine intercultural transformation. He offers a trauma-informed, embodied approach, addressing how cultural displacement and discrimination live in bodies and systems across generations, and how intercultura...

Hyung Jin Kim Sun is a Mennonite. He was born in Paraguay and raised by a Korean immigrant family, before attending an evangelical seminary in the United States. There he joined a Mennonite church, though he often returned from gatherings feeling uneasy. Most Mennonites he met were white, with European heritage, and their faith community was often their ethnic community as well. As a Korean-Paraguayan, Kim Sun felt that he would never be Mennonite enough. This crisis of religious identity ...

Inequality in health reflects the deeper social and economic structures shaping everyday life.This edited volume investigates the complex and uneven landscape of health disparities in contemporary Korean society, demonstrating how rapid economic and social transformations have produced unequal health outcomes across diverse populations. The collection highlights how factors such as employment conditions, social capital, and access to healthcare contribute to differe...

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships between food, culture, and society.Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, communication studies, nutrition research, tourism research, and more. Each chapter presents a unique interpretation of food's economic, political, and sociocultural relevance. Situated in Korea's shifting historical contexts, contributors explore th...

This book illustrates how Seoul's transition into a digitally networked city has reshaped governance structures, economic systems, and cultural life.Central to this transformation is the proactive role of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has guided the city through multiple stages of smart urbanization with strategic planning and policy innovation.Organized into three parts, the contributors first examine the government's leadership in building a smar...

Who are our enemies? And what would it mean to love them?Hyung Jin Kim Sun leads us on an exploration of God’s call to love our enemies. What did Jesus demonstrate and teach about loving enemies? How is nonviolence connected to Christian faith and spirituality? Isn’t violence sometimes necessary? Does loving our enemies really work? What is the goal of enemy love and how can it be applied in our everyday lives? This book won’t answer every question about a Christia...

In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such as smartphones, video games, and mobile instant messengers to become the most networked society...

Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes contextual introductory commentary on its topic. The authors not only historicize their findings but they also prescribe the direction that English-language research on Korean communication sh...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Descendants of the Sun (Hangul: 태양의 후예; RR: Taeyang-ui Huye) is a 2016 South Korean television series starring Song Joong-ki, Song Hye-kyo, Jin Goo, and Kim Ji-won. It aired on KBS2 from February 24 to April 14, 2016, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 for 16 episodes. KBS then aired three additional special episodes from April 20 to April 22, 2016 containing highlights and the be...

Discover, experiment and learn with the little scientists!Every book in the Future Of ... collection contains a fun story, a field trip, and a focus on a famous person. With themes ranging from energy to communications, and robotics to biotechnology, each little scientist has something new to teach readers. Through engaging narratives and full- colour illustrations, I'm a Little Scientist! introduces children to the exciting and ever-advancing world of science.Reade...

젊은 작가들이 다섯 가지 키워드로 읽어 내는 요즘 십 대 이야기'인싸, 톡방, 이·생·망, 몸캠피싱, 히어로'청소년과 가까이 맞닿은 젊은 작가 5인이 다섯 가지 키워드로 요즘 십 대들을 풀어낸다. 아주 가까운 곳에서 자신만의 히어로를 발견하는 준영, 평범한 카톡 때문에 진실과 거짓의 경계에 서게 된 윤, 다른 사람의 삶을 살며 자신의 인생을 되돌아보는 찬솔, 갑작스럽게 덮친 악의로 일상이 산산조각으로 부서진 은정, 누구나 좋아하지만 누구도 잘 알지 못하는 '그 애'를 알게 된 시연 등 열다섯 언저리를 지나는 청소년들의 바로, 오늘이 작품마다 생생하게 담겨 있다.목차캡틴 아메리카도 외로워 / 탁경은앱을 설치하시겠습니까 / 이선주악마를 주웠는데 말이야 / 범유진악의와 악의 / 나윤아그 애 / 우다영저자들: 탁경은서울에서 태어나 대학에서 국문학을 전공했다. 청소년소설 『싸이퍼』로 제14회 사계절문학상을 받으며 등단했다. 지은 책으로 『사랑에 빠질 때 나누는 말들』, 그리고 『러...