5,176円 This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It examines the most iconic comedy films and comedians to show how North Koreans have enjoyed themselves and have established a culture of humor that challenges, subverts, and, at times, reinforces the dominant poli...

2,154円 In 1871, five ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet headed into Korean waters, intent on establishing relations with Korea, a country that had shunned the outside world for centuries. However, as the country had been in conflict with Western countries just five years earlier, it was going to b...

3,000円 Sheila Miyoshi Jager beschrijft in Broederstrijd in Korea de geschiedenis van het oneindige conflict op het schiereiland Korea: van de Tweede Wereldoorlog tot de ontmoeting van de Koreaanse leiders met Donald Trump in 2019. Zeventig jaar na dato is de Koreaanse Oorlog nog steeds niet ten einde. H...

1,657円 이야기가 있는 섬, 안면도 안면도에 깃든 역사와 자연, 그리고 사람에 대한 이야기를 담은 책이다. 본래 섬이 아니던 안면도가 섬이 된 이야기, 일제의 이기심과 탐욕 때문에 파괴된 안면송 이야기, 고난 속에서도 자신이 추구하는 가치를 위해 노력한 사람들의 이야기, 조국의 독립을 쟁취하고 평화를 지키려 한 사람들...

4,230円 South Korea’s triumphant development has catapulted the country’s economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned conglomerates, or chaebŏls, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea’s highly disciplined, technologically co...

4,932円 Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's ...

9,160円 The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selecti...

4,932円 Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of coloniali...

5,638円 Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the ...

5,638円 The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist ...

3,100円 Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppres...

4,510円 This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship on the ...