1,500円 Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel, the imaginary border between t...

526円 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. ER Extrait : Perdu sur les frontières ultimes du Champ-de-Mars, adossé à l’avenue de Suffren, le...

1,326円 Containing photographs of everyday, antique objects along with insightful commentary, Things Korean is a useful guide to traditional life in Korea. O-Young Lee, former Korean Minister of Culture gives us a survey of native objects from Korea, from totems(Changsung) to hair-pins(binyo), crock pots...

1,326円 This radical new approach to dealing with North Korea offers a refreshing perspective on an intransigent and deadly situation. Imagine you control a multi-billion dollar capital fund, and North Korea is an underperforming corporation. You see it is undervalued and want to take it over, but it is ...

11,276円 Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite...

7,752円 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 cultu...

9,867円 Voice from the North resurrects the forgotten historical memory of the people and region in late Choson Korea while also enriching the social history of the country. Sun Joo Kim accomplishes this by examining the life and work of Yi Sihang, a historically obscure person from a hinterland in Korea...

9,867円 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 ...

5,295円 This book offers a comprehensive examination of China–South Korea relations after their diplomatic normalization in 1992, paying close attention to the most recent controversies in the bilateral relationship after the turn of the century. Inspired by the sharp contrast between their booming econo...

838円 《中國娼妓史》是研究中國娼妓問題的開山之作，至今仍有重大的學術價值。其原因在於作者吸收社會科學的新思想，將娼妓從社會史的視角加以研究。　　作者把娼妓史分為五個階段：巫娼時代（殷商）、奴隸娼妓與官娼發生時代（先秦兩漢）、家妓及奴隸娼妓駢進時代（魏晉南北朝）、官妓鼎盛時代（隋至明代）、私人經營娼妓時...

18,231円 This book examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War. Emerging as a state that has successfully developed and tested missiles and nuclear weapons, North Korea has consolidated the Kim family dynasty ...

2,177円 **Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human lifeーpresented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl *Named one of the year's most anticipated books by The New York Times, The Millions, and i09*** Often considered ...