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你認識這樣的韓國嗎？近年來韓國文化強勢輸出，韓國影劇、歌曲及美食等，不僅風靡了亞洲，甚至遠在歐美、非洲都有許多愛好者。在臺灣，學習韓文、到韓國旅遊的人數屢創新高，但是關於朝鮮半島的歷史，你瞭解多少？你可知道：第一場中日戰爭發生於何時何地？與韓國有什麼關係？旅遊勝地濟州島在韓戰爆發前，曾有幾萬人慘遭殺戮？韓戰開打雙方付出巨大代價，然而戰爭的結果如何呢？韓國人的仇日情緒何以至今仍如此強烈？透過濟州四三事件、青瓦臺事件、光州事件、八五八號班機爆炸事件……等重大歷史節點的串連，作者羅添宏大使以專業的視角、簡明扼要的方式，敘述朝鮮半島兩千年來的政治、外交、戰爭與軍事行動，透過外族對這塊土地的覬覦與入侵，以及韓戰的經過和其後的對峙衝突，使讀者可以對朝鮮半島（南韓與北韓）的前世今生更加瞭解。本書除了豐富的歷史事件外，亦有諸多不為人知的精彩小故事，是作者透過親自走訪現場觀察、考證並撰寫 ... Read more

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你認識這樣的韓國嗎？近年來韓國文化強勢輸出，韓國影劇、歌曲及美食等，不僅風靡了亞洲，甚至遠在歐美、非洲都有許多愛好者。在臺灣，學習韓文、到韓國旅遊的人數屢創新高，但是關於朝鮮半島的歷史，你瞭解多少？你可知道：第一場中日戰爭發生於何時何地？與韓國有什麼關係？旅遊勝地濟州島在韓戰爆發前，曾有幾萬人慘遭殺戮？韓戰開打雙方付出巨大代價，然而戰爭的結果如何呢？韓國人的仇日情緒何以至今仍如此強烈？透過濟州四三事件、青瓦臺事件、光州事件、八五八號班機爆炸事件……等重大歷史節點的串連，作者羅添宏大使以專業的視角、簡明扼要的方式，敘述朝鮮半島兩千年來的政治、外交、戰爭與軍事行動，透過外族對這塊土地的覬覦與入侵，以及韓戰的經過和其後的對峙衝突，使讀者可以對朝鮮半島（南韓與北韓）的前世今生更加瞭解。本書除了豐富的歷史事件外，亦有諸多不為人知的精彩小故事，是作者透過親自走訪現場觀察、考證並撰寫
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Privilege and Anxiety

The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era

by Hagen Koo ...

In Privilege and Anxiety**, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates that global economic change brought more profound changes than mere economic decline and shrinking size to this class.**Globalization has inserted an axis of polarization into the middle class, separating a small minority that benefits from the ... Read more

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In Privilege and Anxiety**, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates that global economic change brought more profound changes than mere economic decline and shrinking size to this class.**Globalization has inserted an axis of polarization into the middle class, separating a small minority that benefits from the
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The Power of the Brush

by Hwisang Cho ...

Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an “epistolary revolution” in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing ... Read more

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Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an “epistolary revolution” in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing
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朝鮮半島事件簿：南北韓政治、軍事、外交的前世今生

Privilege and Anxiety

The Power of the Brush