1,148円 On an island where gods hide as refugees and the sea remembers every promise, one woman carved a face from grief and taught a nation how to dance with death. When her husband drowned in a typhoon, the Seawife Shaman Sumyeong dove for seven nights into the depths, searching for his spirit. What sh...

1,148円 In a time of famine, twelve spirits came wearing bone-white masks. They offered a bargain: Feed us stories, and we will feed you life. From the salt-winds of Korea's Hwanghae Province comes a myth that transforms everything we think we know about masks, laughter, and the relationship between the ...

766円 Seoul, 1721. Laughter is illegal. Truth is treason. The powerful have outlawed the ancient mask dances, terrified of "the mirror the mask holds." Then, at twilight beneath Gwanghuimun gate, a figure appears wearing a grinning Yangban mask. He knows everyone's secrets. He names names. He speaks th...

1,148円 In 1394, a mysterious chest arrived at the construction site of Korea's new capital. Inside: twelve masks that mocked Heaven itself. When King Taejo ordered them buried, the earth erupted with laughter. The next morning, workers found the masks transformedーgrinning faces of vanity, hypocrisy, an...

1,148円 What happens when fire and shadow marry? Their children are masksーand those masks hold the secret to human transformation. Deep in Korea's Gyeongsang mountains, where iron veins run through volcanic earth and every cave whispers with memory, a mythology was born that the modern world has nearly ...

1,531円 In the mountain passes of Korea, where fog drifts through ancient pines and drums summon spirits each spring, lives a myth most of the world has never heardーyet one that speaks to the deepest needs of our time. The Mountain Spirit of Daegwallyeong demanded something unexpected from the people wh...

406円 THE TREE-MASK OF SEOCHEON An Ancient Korean Legend About the Grief We Cannot Carry Alone A typhoon strikes. Driftwood washes ashore on Korea's western coast. The villagers carve it into a mask. And the mask weeps. Saltwater tears. Every time a fisherman drowns. Every time the sea takes what it ha...

1,531円 What if laughter could trap death itself? On Korea's storm-battered southern coast, fishermen once faced a plague that fed on fearーuntil a Dragon King appeared in dreams with an impossible prescription: carve five masks and laugh the darkness out. In this riveting exploration of the Ogwangdae my...

1,148円 In the northern highlands of old Korea, masks were not carved from woodーthey were forged from iron, cooled in ritual blood, and filled with the souls of warriors who died without names. This is not the Korea you know from history books. This is the Korea of shamans and smoke, of mountains with b...

2,000円 Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients is a fascinating exploration into the dietary habits, cooking methods, and kitchen tools of ancient civilizations, meticulously compiled by Charles Martyn. Drawing from a wide array of historical sources, the book delves into the culinary practices of t...

4,932円 The Korean War was never formally declared, and no peace treaty ending the war was ever signed. The 1953 armistice did not stop the war but marked its extension and expansion into a warlike state of emergency. How did the new reality of life under armistice shape visions of the possible in North ...

2,255円 This book describes and illustrates the ground forces of the Republic of Korea and its United Nations allies during the Korean War, as well as the UN medical contingents in the conflict. The North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in June 1950 prompted an enormous international respo...