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  • BTS JUNGKOOK

    His biography, personal life & music career

    by James Ben ...
    BTS The full name of the lead singer, dancer, and rapper for the South Korean rock band Bangtan Sonyeondan, often known as BTS, is Jeon Jeong-Guk. He is the youngest member of this hip-hop group, which also consists of Kim Taehyung, Rap Monster, Jimin, Jin, Suga, and J-Hope.The youngest member of the South Korean boy band BTS, a young Korean man, is the subject of this little book, which describes ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    From a seasoned advisor, “a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy” (Foreign Affairs).In The Impossible State, international-policy expert and former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea’s history, the rise ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palaces of Korea

    by Kim Dong uk ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 3Palaces of KoreaThis book introduces the historical background and unique architectural styles of Korea’s palaces, which can be differentiated from the influences of East Asian palace architecture. The book offers descriptions of East Asian capitals and palaces, a brief history of palaces in Korea, the everyday life and ceremonies of palaces, Korean palace architecture, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • She Is Mine

    A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

    Her father was an American serviceman, her mother a young Korean woman confused by the ravages of war. Abandoned at age four, nameless, homeless, and utterly alone, this child roamed the bleak, war-ravaged countryside of South Korea for three years and was finally left for dead. But The Creator had other plans and revealed them through the words, "She Is Mine." ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Films of Bong Joon Ho

    by Nam Lee ...
    Series series Global Film Directors
    Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Flowers of Fire

    The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' s Rights Worldwide

    by Hawon Jung ...
    **Listed in the best books of 2023 by The Economist"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry."—Publishers WeeklyOne of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023"An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching.**Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Conquest to Nowhere

    Conquest to Nowhere, first published in 1955, is author Anthony Herbert’s account of his harrowing time in Korea in 1950-51. Herbert, wounded numerous times, became America’s most decorated soldier of the Korean conflict. He tells a gritty, heart-wrenching story of dangerous patrols, battles against overwhelming Chinese assaults, the anguish of losing comrades-in arms, and his personal struggles ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Impeaching the Impeachment

    Justice for President Park Geun-Hye

    Park Geun-hye was truly a political phenomenon. She was elected democratically, twice chosen as the leader of her party, and served in the South Korean legislature for over fourteen years. Her countrymen dubbed her the “Queen of Elections” for her successful leadership in winning her own elections and steering her party to great electoral victories. Yet in 2016–2017, she was impeached and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

    A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

    by Blaine Harden ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American handsIn The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

    An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household—her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. However, there is nothing common about Jang. She is a woman of great emotional depth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Under The Same Sky

    From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America

    In this “courageous and inspiring memoir,” a young man recounts his escape from an impoverished childhood and adolescence in North Korea (Kirkus Reviews).Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy’s normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Souvenir de Séoul, Corée : 1900

    L’un des intérêts de ce livre réside dans la qualité des photographies qui l’illustrent en deuxième partie et qui font voyager notre imagination vers ce pays et ces décors qui nous sont peu familiers. ERExtrait :Perdu sur les frontières ultimes du Champ-de-Mars, adossé à l’avenue de Suffren, le pavillon coréen reste ignoré de la foule : il semble que, par timidité ou modestie, la Corée ait voulu ... Read more

    $3.32 USD

  • 從「尊明」到「奉清」

    朝鮮王朝對清意識之嬗變,1627-1910

    by 孫衛國 ...
    Series Book 5 - 臺大哈佛燕京學術叢書
    一部近三百年的清韓宗藩關係史,正是朝鮮王朝由「尊明貶清」到「尊明奉清」的演變史。西元1637年,歷經南漢山城盟約之後,朝鮮成為清朝的藩國,雙方關係被視為「典型的朝貢關係」。但秉承「尊華攘夷」儒家觀念的朝鮮,在明、清朝代更迭中表現得非常強烈,只認同明朝為中華,把清朝視作夷狄,且自稱「小中華」。這種思想的交鋒如何影響朝鮮對清朝的態度?以及,朝鮮又如何在「北學派」興起後,逐步改變對清朝的看法?本書是作者十餘年來清代中朝關係史研究的薈萃之作。全書分上、下兩編。上編八章,將政治史、思想史與外交史結合起來,選取一些關鍵性專題,如「小中華」思想、箕子崇拜、關王廟、「復讎雪恥」理念、丁未漂流人事件等,共時性地揭示了朝鮮對清觀由「尊明貶清」到「尊明奉清」的演變。下編六章,以朝鮮燕行使洪大容、「北學派」人士 、洪良浩、李尚迪、朴珪壽、金允植等與清人交往的情況,歷時性地考察朝鮮對清觀的嬗變。在思想觀念上 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • SUMMARY OF FLAWLESS

    Lesson in look and culture from the K- beauty capital by Elise Hu

    by Joseph.O ...
    DISCLAIMER: THIS BOOK IS A SUMMARY OF FLAWLESS LESSON IN LOOK AND CULTURE FROM THE K-BEAUTY CAPITAL BY ELISE HU AND IN NO WAY I TRIES TO REPLACE THE ORIGINAL COPY. BECAUSE IT IS NOT INTENDED TO DO SO IS NOT AFFLICTED WITH THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN TO GIVE THE AUDIENCE AN INSIGHT INTO THE ORIGINAL COPY IN A SUMMARIZED FORMAT. ONCE MORE, THIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A THOROUGH ... Read more

    $5.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE TRUE FORCE OF NORTH KOREA: Military, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles, Including Reaction of the U.S. Government to the Korean Military Threat

    North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special operations soldiers, the size of its submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea

    by Kim Youngna ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 1Modern and Contemporary Art in KoreaThis book discusses the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity of modern and contemporary art in Korea. Major aspects of the book include Korea’s modernism during the Japanese colonial period, the spread of modernism after the Korean War and art informel, the monochrome art movement, the so-called minjung (people’s) art, revival of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Togani

    Series series Modern Korean Fiction
    Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Act of War

    Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo

    by Jack Cheevers ...
    **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE“I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author**In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pop City

    Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place

    by Youjeong Oh ...
    Pop Cityexamines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture–featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture.By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, Pop ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Korea

    The Ground War from Both Sides

    Series series Images of War
    This illustrated history chronicles the ground combat of the Korean War through rare wartime photographs.The Korean War opened with the invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans in June 1950. Over the next three years, intense ground fighting led to heavy casualties and much suffering. This illustrated history traces the fluctuating fortunes of war from both sides.The South Koreans were saved ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drumul către libertate: autobiografia unei refugiate din Coreea de Nord

    by Yeonmi Park ...
    Series series Hors
    Yeonmi Park a crescut crezând că e normal să vadă cadavre în drum spre școală și să fie atât de flămândă, încât să mănânce plante sălbatice. A fost învățată să nu-și exprime niciodată părerile și i s-a spus că „Iubitul Conducător“ poate să-i citească gândurile și să o pedepsească pentru ele. La vârsta de 13 ani, după ce tatăl ei a fost condamnat la muncă silnică, Yeonmi și familia ei au luat ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 朝鮮半島事件簿:南北韓政治、軍事、外交的前世今生

    by 羅添宏 ...
    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

    $11.99 USD

  • Song of Ariran

    The Life Story of a Korean Rebel

    by Kim San, Nym Wales ...
    Here for the first time is a personal account direct from a leader of the Korean rebels fighting against the Japanese who have ruled them for a generation. It is a story that fits the American tradition and the American wish to understand and support all peoples who have fought against their tyrants and oppressors. Perhaps not many know that Christianity was the mother of Korean Independence, that ... Read more

    $7.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus