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Between October 2016 and April 2017, more than 17 million South Koreans took to the streets to demand the resignation of their President over a corruption scandal involving the government. Without a……続きを見る

This classic history of the Korean Warーfrom its origins through the armisticeーis now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introduction that considers the heightened danger of a……続きを見る

Die koreanische Halbinsel liegt zwischen China und Japan am Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Kulturen und im Visier wechselnder Großmächte. Das Buch beschreibt die Geschichte des Landes von der ersten……続きを見る

Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction is a compilation of thirteen original essays which was first serialized in a quarterly issued by the National Institute of Korean Language, Saekukosaenghwal (L……続きを見る

Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that……続きを見る

African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially……続きを見る

Understanding a people and their culture through code words and language. Today, South Korea is an economic, technological and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war,……続きを見る

Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the ……続きを見る

Het instinct om het Joodse volk te beschermen zit in het dna van Israël. Vanaf 1948 is de beveiliging van het land in handen van de inlichtingendiensten en het leger, met in hun arsenaal een zeer be……続きを見る

During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee’s repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee’s growing authoritarianism ……続きを見る

Al termine della II guerra mondiale, con un mondo segnato dai disastrosi e rovinosi eventi bellici che provava, con fatica, a risollevarsi, si assistette all'ascesa degli USA e dell'URSS e alla cost……続きを見る

Diceva Winston Churchill: «La democrazia è la peggiore forma di governo, eccezion fatta per tutte quelle che si sono sperimentate finora». Come dargli torto? La democrazia, in effetti, conosce debol……続きを見る

La guerra di Corea è stato un terribile evento bellico svoltosi nella penisola coreana dal 1950 al 1953.Più precisamente, è stata una parte della guerra fredda nella quale, alla fine della seconda g……続きを見る

Kim Jong-Un, 33 anni, dittatore della Corea del Nord, è il più giovane capo di Stato al mondo, e sicuramente uno dei più eccentrici, dispotici e controversi. I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono g……続きを見る

La brutalità del regime è qualcosa che va al di là di ogni possibile attesa, in Corea del Nord; un Paese, una dittatura, che è un incubo collettivo. Mass Games racconta la vita tremenda di un gruppo……続きを見る

In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several dis……続きを見る

Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state r……続きを見る

Against the backdrop of China’s mounting influence and North Korea’s growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its econom……続きを見る

How two opposing sides killed Korea in an effort to save it. You surely have heard something about the Korean War. Or the Forgotten War as some call it. But do you really know all that happened? Hav……続きを見る

How and why are the Kims rational? There is no consensus about either the Kims’ rationality or how best to determine if they are rational actors. Rationality in the North Korean Regime offers a conc……続きを見る

A Phenjani Műszaki Egyetem hallgatói – az észak-koreai uralkodó osztály gyermekei – naponta háromszor szabályos sorokban masíroznak az étkezőbe, Észak-Koreát és vezetőjét dicsőítő dalokat énekelve: ……続きを見る

This book is an English translation of the authoritative autobiography by the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. The 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner, often called the Asian Nelson Mandela, is b……続きを見る

„Visszatartom a dühömet. Ha kiengedném, akkor megtelne vele az egész szoba.” „Azt képzeltem, hogy akit szeretek, annak baja esik, mert én rossz vagyok.” „Nem volt egy élő lélek, aki megértett volna,……続きを見る

Seoul is a rapidly changing city, the epitome of the latest trends and technology. But looking closely in between the skyscrapers, there lie hints that reveal an alternate story, a story of a 600-ye……続きを見る

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. T……続きを見る

This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emer……続きを見る

Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations o……続きを見る

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosŏn period (1700–1910) ushered in a world of materiali……続きを見る

Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee’s rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin era (1972–79). Beginning with the constitutional chan……続きを見る

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. Whil……続きを見る