Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea
Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea

Author: The Organization of Korean Historians

Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 900426115X

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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea shows how the momentous changes of the time transformed the lives of the common people. In twenty-three concise chapters, the book covers topics ranging from agriculture, commerce, and mining to education, marriage, and food culture. It examines how both the spread of Neo-Confucianism in the early Joseon period and its decline from the seventeenth century impacted economic and social life. The book also demonstrates that much of what is thought of as ancient Korean tradition actually developed in the Joseon period. Chapters in this book discuss how customs such as ancestor worship, the use of genealogies, and foods such as kimchi all originated or became widespread in this era. Contributors: Kim Kuentae, Yeom Jeong Sup, Kim Sung Woo, Lee Hun-Chang, Lee Uk, Yoo Pil Jo, Kim Kyung-ran, Kim Eui-Hwan, Oh Soo-chang, Ko Dong-Hwan, Kwon Nae-Hyun, Lee Hae Jun, Jung Jin Young, Kwon Ki-jung, Han Sang Kwon, Kwon Soon-Hyung, Jang Dong-Pyo, Seo-Tae-Won, Sim Jae-woo, Chung Yeon-sik, O Jong-rok, Hong Soon Min. This volume was co-translated by Edward Park and Michael D. Shin.

Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea
Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea

Author: Youna Kim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1134224664

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Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim analyzes how Korean women of varying age and class group cope with the new environment of changing economical structure and social relations. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Youna Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West. Based on original empirical research, the book explores the hopes, aspirations, frustrations and dilemmas of Korean women as they try to cope with life beyond traditional grounds. Going beyond the traditional Anglo-American view of media and culture, this text will appeal to students and scholars of both Korean area studies and media and communications studies.

Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950
Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

Author: Suzy Kim

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2013-08-09

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0801469368

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During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people’s lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course. Kim’s innovative use of documents seized by U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the National Archives—personnel files, autobiographies, minutes of organizational meetings, educational materials, women’s magazines, and court documents—together with oral histories allows her to present the first social history of North Korea during its formative years. In an account that makes clear the leading role of women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced, understood, and later remembered such events as the first land reform and modern elections in Korea’s history, as well as practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations, and study sessions that transformed daily routine.

Cultural Life in Korea
Cultural Life in Korea

Author: Myunghee Park

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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A book about the Cultural Life in Koream scenes from everyday Life, color pictures, deatailed text in English and an unopened, attached CD. Includes understanding cultural life, the family, fashion trends, cuisine, function andform in homes, leisure and traditional holidays and more.

Discoveries of Korea, 20 Expats’ Tales
Discoveries of Korea, 20 Expats’ Tales

Author: Korean Culture and Information Service (South Korea)

Publisher: 길잡이미디어

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 8973751654

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This book is a compilation of the "My Korea" articles as published in KOREA magazine from February 2010 to September 2011. Each of the stories is written by expatriates living in Korea and introduces an aspect of the local culture from a unique point of view. Contents Singin’ in the Room Noraebang Nights midnight madness redefined A journey into steam jjimjilbang (spa and sauna complexes) Kinetic street cuisine Chosin’s heroes and the stories of their lives Seoul, football and an undying passion Some loke it hot The sweetest autumnal connection It’s hoesik time Campus life in korea Converted to kimchi The labors of love Here comes the sun Poktanju, getting bombed korean style Discovering korean peaks Finding room to breathe Dreaming of pigs Beating back monsoon blues Gathering gangwon greens Daring delivery

The Power of Nunchi
The Power of Nunchi

Author: Euny Hong

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0525506268

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"A must-read for anyone interested in the art of intuitively knowing what others feel." --Haemin Sunim, bestselling author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down and Love for Imperfect Things Improve your nunchi. Improve your life. The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how. Have you ever wondered why your less-skilled coworker gets promoted before you, or why that one woman from your yoga class is always surrounded by adoring friends? They probably have great nunchi. The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need are your eyes and ears. Sherlock Holmes has great nunchi. Cats have great nunchi. Steve Jobs had great nunchi. With its focus on observing others rather than asserting yourself--it's not all about you!--nunchi is a refreshing antidote to our culture of self-promotion, and a welcome reminder to look up from your cell phone. Nunchi has been used by Koreans for more than 5,000 years. It's what catapulted their nation from one of the world's poorest to one of the richest and most technologically advanced in half a century. And it's why K-pop--an unlikely global phenomenon, performed as it is in a language spoken only in Korea--is even a thing. Not some quaint Korean custom like taking off your shoes before entering a house, nunchi is the currency of life. The Power of Nunchi will show you how the trust and connection it helps you to build can open doors for you that you never knew existed. A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

Printed in North Korea: The Art of Everyday Life in the DPRK
Printed in North Korea: The Art of Everyday Life in the DPRK

Author: Nick Bonner

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780714879239

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Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind in or outside North Korea. Depicting the everyday lives of the country's train conductors, steelworkers, weavers, farmers, scientists, and fishermen, these unique lino-cut and woodblock prints are a fascinating way to explore the culture of this still virtually unknown country. Together, they are an unparalleled testament to the talent of North Korea's artists and the unique social, cultural, and political conditions in which they work.

Living in South Korea
Living in South Korea

Author: Rob Whyte

Publisher: Pro Lingua Associates

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780866471312

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Living in South Korea gives advice on how to feel at home, make friends, and enjoy everyday life in the country of South Korea and provides a brief introduction to the culture for all travelers whether venturing abroad for study, pleasure, or business.

Times Past in Korea
Times Past in Korea

Author: Martin Uden

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1903350069

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In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country, providing the reader with a wide selection of first-hand accounts by travellers who 'discovered' Korea.

North of the DMZ
North of the DMZ

Author: Andrei Lankov

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0786451416

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The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but f existence and the world that the North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. Many features of this world are unique and even bizarre. But they have been created by the citizens to reflect their own ideas and values, in sharp contrast to the world forced upon them by a totalitarian system. Opening chapters introduce the political system and the extent to which it permeates citizens' daily lives, from the personal status badges they wear to the nationalized distribution of the food they eat. Chapters discussing the schools, the economic system, and family life dispel the myth of the workers' paradise that North Korea attempts to perpetuate. In these chapters the intricacies of daily life in a totalitarian dictatorship are seen through the eyes of defectors whose anecdotes constitute an important portion of the material. The closing chapter treats at length the significant changes that have taken place in North Korea over the last decade, concluding that these changes will lead to the quiet but inevitable death of North Korean Stalinism. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.