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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
Inspired by true events on Korea's Jeju Island, the author explores what it means to truly love in the wake of devastation.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed in the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope unfolds the tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.
7) South Korea
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, geography, culture, and current state of South Korea, a land of both tradition and modern development.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary nine-thousand-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects that the woman is no mythical creature, but a wealthy kidnapper who's good at covering her tracks. Scrambling to stay one step ahead of a psychotic mastermind, George realizes...
12) Sonju
Author
Publisher
Madville Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sonju comes of age in Japanese-occupied Korea, and having received a modern education, she imagines a life of equality and freedom of choice. Her ideals soon clash with the centuries-old Confucian tradition of order and conformity when her mother arranges her marriage to a man she has never met. The decisions she makes during the Korean War lead to her being disowned by her family, betrayed by her best friend, and shunned by society. Through the...
14) The ville rat
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"South Korea, 1974 : a young Korean woman dressed in a traditional chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefully calligraphed poem in her sleeve." --
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the racetracks of Seoul to the battlegrounds of the Korean War, Reckless was a horse whose strength, tenacity, and relentless spirit made her a hero among a regiment of US Marines fighting for their lives on the front lines.Her Korean name was Ah-Chim-Hai, meaning Flame-of-the-Morning. A four-year-old chestnut-colored Mongolian racehorse with a white blaze down her face and three white stockings, she once amazed the crowds in Seoul with her remarkable...
Author
Language
English
Description
While the Cold War is over in the rest of the world, a potentially deadly confrontation continues on the bitterly divided peninsula of Korea, where two of the world's largest armies - along with 37,000 U.S. troops - face each other across the misnamed "demilitarized zone," ready to resume fighting on a moment's notice. Here the United States would be instantly involved in any new outbreak of violence. Below the dividing line, which was established...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. The...
Author
Publisher
Little White Lies, Abrams
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the career and films of the South Korean film director, discussing his two-decade rise to international acclaim and providing a critical analysis of his films in which he explores themes of family, violence, poverty, murder, and secrecy, and the exploitation that results from capitalism and American imperialism."--
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Mongolian mare, who, despite only measuring about thirteen hands high, became an American hero for her actions during the Korean War, being awarded two Purple Hearts for her valor and being officially promoted to staff sergeant twice, a distinction never bestowed upon an animal before or since.
