Korea
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A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us Occupation
$29.95 Add to cartA poignant return to Korea’s forgotten “Asian Spring”–a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation.
When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsu- Author: Chang, Kornel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674258436
- Language: English
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Imposible Decir Adi?s / We Do Not Part
$21.95 Add to cartLA NUEVA NOVELA DE HAN KANG
PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2024
PREMIO M?DICIS ?TRANGER 2023
«Una novela inquietantemente bella sobre la imposibilidad de despertar de la pesadilla hist?rica. Inolv… [more below]- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 8439745001
- Language: Spanish
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: The Heart-Warming Korean Sensation
$18.99 Add to cartINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
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INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell’s Pick of the Month * A Bookshop Best Book of the Year So Far- Author: Bo-Reum, Hwang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736379
- Language: English
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Concerning My Daughter
$17.00 Add to cartPrize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s quee… [more below]
- Author: Hye-Jin, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1632063492
- Language: English
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She Is Mine: A War Orphan’s Incredible Journey of Survival
$12.99 Add to cartHer father was an American serviceman, her mother a young Korean woman confused by the ravages of war. Abandoned at age four, nameless, homeless, and utterly alone, this child roamed the bleak, war-ra… [more below]
- Author: Fast, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0996293833
- Language: English
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Hallyuwood: The Ultimate Guide to Korean Cinema
$40.00 Add to cartRide the Korean wave (Hallyu) of cinema and explore the most exciting and captivating films in the world today.
From smash hits like Parasite to cult favorites Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Train to- Author: Meiresonne, Bastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 762489014
- Language: English
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Luminous
$29.99 Add to cartPrescient yet timeless, perfect for fans of Klara and the Sun and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, this highly anticipated, sweeping debut set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estran… [more below]
- Author: Park, Silvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668021668
- Language: English
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Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea
$45.00 Read moreAnyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epice
- Series: Asia Pop!
- Author: Kim, Pil Ho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 082489751X
- Language: English
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The Black Orb
$28.99 Add to cartThe object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn‘t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and p… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Ewhan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0778387348
- Language: English
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Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories
$16.99 Add to cartA woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous.
- Author: Nam-Joo, Cho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095318
- Language: English
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Korea: A New History of South and North
$18.00 Add to cartA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and ba- Author: Cha, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278705
- Language: English
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The Healing Season of Pottery
$18.99 Add to cartSet for international release this fall, this cozy Korean bestseller invites readers into a warm, sunlit pottery studio where a burned-out young TV broadcast writer begins to heal, working the clay, p… [more below]
- Author: Somin, Yeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756753
- Language: English
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Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat
$25.95 Add to cartFor readers who loved Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Book Shop, this heartwarming Korean bestseller tells the story of a mysterious diary left in a laundromat brings together patrons from all walks of lif… [more below]
- Author: Jiyun, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368035
- Language: English
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The Trunk
$21.99 Add to cartSOON TO BE A NETFLIX TV SERIES
The English language debut from bestselling Korean author Kim Ryeo-ryeong – an edgy, arresting drama about a secret marriage service for Korea’s wealthy elite, and one un… [more below]
- Author: Ryeo-Ryeong, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1335015019
- Language: English
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Bojagi: The Art of Korean Textiles
$28.00 Add to cartA creative guide to a unique and beautiful form of Korean art, steeped in ancient tradition.
Bojagi are textiles that wrap, cover, carry, or store objects. Some are made from whole pieces of fabric an- Author: Lee, Youngmin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1789941830
- Language: English
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The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
$29.00 Read moreHow did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operativ… [more below]
- Author: Hope, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593240650
- Language: English
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Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
$24.95 Read moreKorea has endured a “fractured, shattered twentieth century,” and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings’s leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the… [more below]
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327027
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
$39.95 Add to cartStarting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to desc
- Author: Kee, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0816679886
- Language: English
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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
$18.99 Add to cart“Fantastically original doesn’t begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible—from a fractured century of agonies and betrayals, she
- Author: Lee, Mirinae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0063240432
- Language: English
