Recently added articles from Korean Studies:
The changing faces of inequality in South Korea in the age of globalization.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Koo, Hagen ... The social and cultural landscape of inequality in South Korea has changed significantly in the recent period. This article investigates the emerging pattern of social inequality in South Korea since the financial crisis in 1997-1998, focusing on changes in three major areas of social ...
Silla Buddhism and the Hwarang segi manuscripts.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; McBride, Richard D., II ... This article assesses the authenticity of the recently publicized Hwarang segi manuscripts by comparing the information they contains relating to the hwarang and Silla Buddhists and Buddhism to the information found in the traditional Chinese Buddhist materials and the Korean literary ...
Pan ch'inyong wedding rites, residential rules, and the status of women in sixteenth-century Choson: an analysis based on Miam-ilgi, the diary of Yu Hui-ch'un.
Jan 01, 2007; Park, Mee Hae ... This study focuses on wedding rites, residential rules, and the status of women in the mid-Choson dynasty. Based on Miam-ilgi ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), a diary of Yu Hui-ch'un ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), a famous sixteenth-century Korean Confucian scholar, the marriage of ...
Imperial Japan's preparations to conscript Koreans as soldiers, 1942-1945.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Palmer, Brandon ... On May 9, 1942, the Japanese colonial government of Korea announced that beginning in December 1944 Korean men would be drafted into the Japanese military. By the end of World War II, 110,000 Korean conscripts served with the Japanese armed forces. Why did the Japanese postpone the ...
Korea and Japan in East Asian history: A Tripolar Approach to East Asian History.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Barnes, Gina L. ... Korea and Japan in East Asian history: A Tripolar Approach to East Asian History, by Wontack Hong. Seoul: Kudara International, 2006. Wontack Hong's new book is a work of synthesis--albeit one with an agenda. Moreover, the 2006 publication is stated to be a "limited preview ...
Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Seth, Michael J. ... Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea, by Keith Pratt. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 320 pp. $34.95 cloth. Keith Pratt's book is a narrative history of Korea from Neolithic to contemporary times. It is a welcomed effort, since there is a need for a one-volume survey of Korean ...
A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Park, Eugene Y. ... A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century, by Michael J. Seth. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 257 pp. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. Writing a survey history can be a thankless task. Once in a while, the ...
Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Hur, Nam-lin ... Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan, by James B. Lewis. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables. $150 cloth. James B. Lewis offers a detailed study of the Japan House (Waegwan), which served as the contact point of ...
Perspectives on Korean Music.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Lee, Yong-Shik ... Perspectives on Korean Music, by Keith Howard. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. 2 vols.: 264, 260 pp. Illustrations, music examples, CDs. $99.95 each volume (cloth). Music is a mirror to understand the discourse of identity in Korean society. As in many ...
Between Two Adversaries: Korean Interpreters at Japanese Alien Enemy Detention Centers during World War II.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Savage, Timothy L. ... Between Two Adversaries: Korean Interpreters at Japanese Alien Enemy Detention Centers during World War II, by Hyung-ju Ahn; preface by Joon K. Kim. Michi Nishiura and Walter Weglyn Multi -cultural Publication Series. Fullterton, California: Oral History Program, California State ...
The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Cathcart, Adam J. ... The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, by Allen R. Millet. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005. 376 pp. $39.95 cloth. Big books on the Korean War are no longer a rarity, but one must nonetheless take note of Allan R. Millett's ambitious effort in The War for ...
A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Matray, James I. ... A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, by Chae-jin Lee. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Xi, 352 pp., notes, index. $27.95 paper. More than fifty years ago, an armistice ended the Korean War. Chae-jin Lee, director of the Keck Center of ...
North Korea: Another Country.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Auton, Graeme P. ... North Korea: Another Country, by Bruce Cumings. New York: New Press, 2004. 256 pp. $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. A quarter century has gone by since publication of the first volume of Bruce Cumings's landmark Origins of the Korean War, a solid, beautifully argued, and meticulously ...
Human Remolding in North Korea: A Social History of Education.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Choi, Sheena ... Human Remolding in North Korea: A Social History of Education, by Hyung-chan Kim with Dong-kyu Kim. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2005. viii, 285 pp. Bibliography, index. $69.95 cloth, $39.95 paper. When we consider the record of North Korea over the past ...
The South Korean Economy: Towards a New Explanation of an Economic Miracle.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Stern, Joseph J. ... The South Korean Economy: Towards a New Explanation of an Economic Miracle, by Junmo Kim. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xii, 222 pp. $99.95 cloth. The history of Korea's transformation from a poor and backward state to a leading growth center in Asia and ...
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Oppenheim, Robert ... Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy, by Gi-Wook Shin. Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Xiii, 307 pp. $24.95 paper. When the multidisciplinary discussion of nationalism was in ...
Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Seo, Jungmin ... Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture, by Young Whan Kihl. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 424 pp. $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. This book is a broad overview of Korean politics since the democratization in 1987. By emphasizing the centrality of ...
Towards Korean Reconciliation: Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Auton, Graeme P. ... Towards Korean Reconciliation: Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation, by Gabriel Jonsson. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. 304 pp. $ 99.95 cloth. At a time when Pyongyang has pretensions to become a nuclear power and South Korea has transformed from ...
Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Mori, Barbara ... Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup, edited by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter. London: Routeledge, 2002. 240 pp. $53.95 paper. This book covers the most important issues in sports today and in the context of the 2002 World Cup demonstrates how these issues are manifest. The ...