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Discoveries of Korea, 20 Expats’ Tales: real anecdotes on ...

Discoveries of Korea, 20 Expats’ Tales: real anecdotes on ...

Korean Culture and Information Service (South Korea)

Already, we have lost one of the veterans we had the privilege of interviewing. The importance of honoring these heroes during their lifetime is the driving force behind Chosin's very intimate and human story of triumph PRofile Brian Iglesias ...
The Korean Wave: A New Pop Culture Phenomenon

The Korean Wave: A New Pop Culture Phenomenon

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A New Pop Culture Phenomenon Korean Culture and Information Service South Korea. K-Pop. Turning. Points. Shin. Joong-hyun. and. Seo. Taiji. Break. New. Ground. In December 2009, 73-year-old Shin Joong-hyun, widely revered as the  ...
KOREA Magazine December 2014

KOREA Magazine December 2014

Korean culture and information service

<책소개> KOREA Magazine December 2014 KOREA is a monthly promotional magazine published by the Korean government.
KOREA Magazine May 2016:

KOREA Magazine May 2016:

Korean Culture and Information Service

Produced entirely in English, the magazine explores a broad range of topics including politics, the economy, and culture, offering the international community an accessible and informative introduction to Korea.
KOREA Magazine March 2016:

KOREA Magazine March 2016:

Korean Culture and Information Service

Produced entirely in English, the magazine explores a broad range of topics including politics, the economy, and culture, offering the international community an accessible and informative introduction to Korea.
KOREA Magazine November 2016:

KOREA Magazine November 2016:

Korean Culture and Information Service

Produced entirely in English, the magazine explores a broad range of topics including politics, the economy, and culture, offering the international community an accessible and informative introduction to Korea.
KOREA Magazine December 2016:

KOREA Magazine December 2016:

Korean Culture and Information Service

Produced entirely in English, the magazine explores a broad range of topics including politics, the economy, and culture, offering the international community an accessible and informative introduction to Korea.
KOREA Magazine October 2016:

KOREA Magazine October 2016:

Korean Culture and Information Service

People 2 Korean Cinema's Global Ambassador Film critic Darcy Paquet helps bring Korean motion pictures to the world _ Written by Colin Marshall Photographed by RAUM Studio Waters' eponymous novel of Victorian England into ...
South Korea

South Korea

Lucile Davis

A simple introduction to the geography, history, customs, foods, language, and people of South Korea. Also includes instuctions for making a Korean mask.
Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change and ...

Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change and ...

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VictorD.Cha,TheImpossibleState:North Korea,Past and Future (New York: Ecco Press, 2012),290–1. Xiaoxiong Yi, “A Neutralized Korea? The North–South Rapprochement and China's Korean Policy,” Korean Journal ofDefense Analysis 12 ...
Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration ...

Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration ...

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Hae Yeon Choo describes how popular discourses in South Korea construct North Korean women as victims of patriarchal oppression and sex trafficking while casting South Korean women as the mirror opposite—as beneficiaries of South ...
Pursuing a Comprehensive Vision for the U.S.-South Korea ...

Pursuing a Comprehensive Vision for the U.S.-South Korea ...

Scott Snyder

The scope of common interests represented by the alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) has expanded as a result of increasing South Korean capabilities to contribute to security and prosperity on and beyond the ...
The Chaebol: Korea's New Industrial Might

The Chaebol: Korea's New Industrial Might

Richard M. Steers

ISBN 0-88730-372-2 1. Conglomerate corporations — Korea (South). 2. Industry and state — Korea (South). 3. Industrial management — Korea (South). 4. Industrial organization — Korea (South). I. Shin, Yoo Keun. II. Ungson, Gerardo R . HI.
Korean Enterprise: The Quest for Globalization

Korean Enterprise: The Quest for Globalization

Gerardo R. Ungson

Examines Korea's business culture and assesses the challenges that face Korea in the global marketplace
Development Without Freedom: The Politics of Asian Globalization

Development Without Freedom: The Politics of Asian Globalization

Songok Han Thornton

147–60). 42 Wonmo Dong, “Student Activism and the Presidential Politics of 1987 in South Korea,” in Ilpyong J. Kim and Young Whan Kihl (eds), PoliticalChange in South Korea (New York: The Korean PWPA, Inc., 1988), pp. 176 and 178 (pp.
How to Draw South Korea's Sights and Symbols

How to Draw South Korea's Sights and Symbols

Melody S. Mis

Presents step-by-step directions for drawing the national flag, a jindo dog, Korean Buddhist temples, and other sights and symbols of South Korea.
Kimchi and IT: Tradition and Transformation in Korea

Kimchi and IT: Tradition and Transformation in Korea

Choong Soon Kim

Kimchi, a popular Korean food for millennia, symbolizes Korean ethnic identity and its endurance, while IT (information technology) epitomizes th
The Korean Journal of International Studies

The Korean Journal of International Studies

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28 The biochemical threat was officially recognized when South Korean Defense Minister Sung-tae Cho and his U.S. counterpart William Cohen warned against the possible use of chemical and biological weapons by North Korea at the 31st ...
The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the ...

The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the ...

Euny Hong

In The Birth of Korean Cooljournalist Euny Hong uncovers the roots of the 'Korean Wave': a fanaticism for South Korean pop culture that has enabled them to make the rest of the world a captive market for their products by first becoming the ...
Political Systems of East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan

Political Systems of East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan

Louis D. Hayes

Larry Niksch, “North Korea's Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Kihl and Kim, North Korea, 109. 40. Noland, Avoiding ... Young W. Kihl, Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), 240. 51.
Cooking the Korean Way

Cooking the Korean Way

Okwha Chung

Introduces the cooking and food habits of Korea, including such recipes as bean sprout salad and Korean dumplings, and provides brief information on the geography, history, holidays, and festivals of the country.
Korea, South Country: Strategic Information and Developments

Korea, South Country: Strategic Information and Developments

International Business Publications, USA

Korea South Country Study Guide - Strategic Information and Developments Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments
Engineers for Korea

Engineers for Korea

Kyonghee Han

This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to become better critical analysts of their own expertise, identities, and commitments.
The Line: Combat in Korea, January-February 1951

The Line: Combat in Korea, January-February 1951

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Combat in Korea, January-February 1951 William T. Bowers. NOTES. 1. War Comes to Korea 1. For the initial North Korean attacks, see Roy E. Appleman, South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, ...
Korean Security in a Changing East Asia

Korean Security in a Changing East Asia

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Victor Cha notes that historically it was South Korea's fear that the United States would not take this threat perception seriously that drove the U.S.-Korea relationship. See Victor Cha, Alignment despite Antagonism, Stanford, CA: 1999. 4.
The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2014)

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2014)

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Introduction: Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea Ju Hui Judy Han and Jennifer Jihye Chun The election of Park Geun-hye (Pak Kŭnhye) as South Korea's first female president reveals fascinating contradictions about the state of  ...
Bullying and Violence in South Korea: From Home to School ...

Bullying and Violence in South Korea: From Home to School ...

Trent Bax

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society.
The culture of Korean industry: an ethnography of Poongsan ...

The culture of Korean industry: an ethnography of Poongsan ...

Choong Soon Kim

Anthropologist Choong Soon Kim sheds light on this question through an ethnography of Poongsan Corporation, a metals manufacturer in South Korea.
North & South Korea

North & South Korea

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The United States Should Not Negotiate with North Korea Dan Blumenthal Continued diplomacy will increase, not decrease the North Korean threat, asserts Dan Blumenthal in the following viewpoint. The regime has continually broken its  ...

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