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Author : Petrus Spronk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Meditations on a Korean Odyssey written by Petrus Spronk and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Gormley
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490799184
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Korean War Odyssey written by Tom Gormley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picture of the young soldier with the ears sticking out graced my mother-in-law’s kitchen forever. When asked, she would reply that her younger brother Donnie disappeared during the Korean War at the tender age of eighteen. In 2010, my wife, Sandy, and I set out to discover what happened to Corporal Donald Matney and to bring him home. Our journey took us to Washington, DC; Seoul, Korea; and many places in between. But slowly, carefully, step-by-step, we reconstructed the short life of Sandy’s uncle Donnie, identified his remains, and returned him to rest by his mother’s side in Missouri. A Korean War Odyssey is this story. The saga begins with a Korean history lesson told through the eyes of a fictional young refugee family fleeing the North Korean invasion. It continues from the viewpoint of a soldier on occupation duty in Japan suddenly thrust into a violent “police action”. Both witness the atrocities of war until one disappears. Through alternating perspectives, the account continues weaving what happened during the war with how we identified this missing young soldier and brought him home. A Korean War Odyssey provides much needed insight for today’s headlines. Those with friends and relatives lost during the Forgotten War will learn what may have happened. Anyone who desires to understand the Korean War and why the US still has a presence on this Asian peninsula today will gain a new viewpoint.
Author : Martin Samuel
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482831864
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Martin Samuel and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a fantasy story set in South Korea. It involves a young boy (Minsu) and a young girl (Jimin) who visit some Buddhist monks to help them deal with the loss of their cat Oonky. After a close call with death Jimin awakens an ancient warrior from the time when Korea was divided into three kingdoms who asks the children to do a favor for him. In the process the children meet the matriarch of the Turquoise Palace of Korea Past and Present Ms... While at the palace the children have the opportunity to observe some great moments in Korean history made by the people who did it. After the favor is fulfilled the children return to modern Korea.
Author : John G. Goodrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (332 download)
Download or read book How Lucky Can You Get written by John G. Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788692229
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (922 download)
Download or read book A Korean Odyssey written by Michael Gibb and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gibb embarks on an eccentric odyssey around the wind-swept islands off the coast of South Korea in search of life beyond K-pop, high-tech gadgetry, and nuclear missile tests. With well over three thousand islands to choose from, there was no shortage of destinations, all connected by the indomitable ferries that ply these choppy waters. From the fog-bound isles within hailing distance of North Korea to the charms of the southern archipelagos and the rocky outcrops deep in the lonely East Sea, Gibb discovers a region of Asia unjustly ignored by travelers. Gibb, a Korean speaker, encounters a cast of fascinating characters on his voyages: villagers who call these far-flung islands home, gnarled sea dogs crewing the ferries, gambling grannies, conscripts on desolate outposts, fishermen, rampaging tourist hordes, and poetry-loving taxi drivers. The journey packs in enough stories from maritime history, myths, culture, literature, and poliitics to fill a ship's cargo holds. A former Seoul-based journalist and author of A Slow Walk Through Jeong-dong, a history of one of Seoul's most intriguing neighborhoods, Gibb reveals a country that is both rapidly changing but firmly rooted in tradition and the past, one that's often in the news but rarely understood.
Author : Dale A Dye
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1944353399
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (443 download)
Download or read book KOREAN ODYSSEY (EB) written by Dale A Dye and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then-in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant-the “defecation strikes the oscillation.” War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.
Author : Tai Kyun Shin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781424302604
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Tai Kyun Shin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yung-ro Pyun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Yung-ro Pyun and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Heuvel
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439262252
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Brian Heuvel and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korean Odyssey" is a memoir written by Brian Heuvel which details his first two years living as an ex-pat in South Korea during the mid 1990's.
Author : Michael E. Robinson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831748
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey written by Michael E. Robinson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910. Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included—and thus implicated—Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.
Author : Manwoo Lee
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of Korean Democracy written by Manwoo Lee and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee offers a rare eyewitness account of Korea's recent chaotic, and frequently violent journey to democracy. He offers informed observations on Korea's three famous Kims and Roh Tae-woo, and of the dramatic political events leading to the presidential election in December 1987 and the parliamentary elections in April 1988. Lee also examines the formation of a super-ruling party. Readers will benefit from Lee's presence in the offices of the presidential candidates and from his conversations with leaders directly responsible for the fate of Korean democracy. Knowing what happened in Korean politics during the past three years is prerequisite to understanding the decline of Korea's repressive authoritarian system.
Author : Dale A. Dye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944353445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Gerdine has finally been given command of a rifle company, an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of young officers and combat-hardened senior NCOs.
Author : Mary Paik Lee
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746742
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Quiet Odyssey written by Mary Paik Lee and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in the early twentieth century, working as farm laborers, cooks, janitors, and miners. Lee recounts racism on the playground and the ravages of mercury mining on her father’s health, but also entrepreneurial successes and hardships surmounted with grace. With a new foreword by David K. Yoo, this edition reintroduces Quiet Odyssey to readers interested in Asian American history and immigration studies. The volume includes thirty illustrations and a comprehensive introduction and bibliographic essay by respected scholar Sucheng Chan, who collaborated closely with Lee to edit the biography and ensure the work was true to the author’s intended vision. This award-winning book provides a compelling firsthand account of early Korean American history and continues to be an essential work in Asian American studies.
Author : Mary Harrod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000404625
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Imagining "We" in the Age of "I" written by Mary Harrod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022 In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence. Looking at a variety of media sites—including film, television, popular print fiction, new media and new technologies—this volume’s diverse range of contributors examine how mediated scenes of intimacy proliferate, while real-life experiences are cast in a newly uncertain light. The collection thus challenges a latent but growing tendency towards perceptions of romantic decline, in a variety of cultural contexts and with attention to the impact of COVID-19. This is an accessible and timely collection suitable for scholars in gender studies, media, cultural studies and communication studies.
Author : Dale A. Dye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944353414
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and--fortunately--a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then--in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant--the "defecation strikes the oscillation." War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.
Author : Barbara Wall
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690212
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling written by Barbara Wall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling challenges many established truths about popular literary classics by presenting an analysis of sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West, a set which includes novels and poems, as well as films, comics, paintings, and dance performances dating from the 14th century until today. In contrast to the typical assumption that literary classics like The Journey to the West are stable texts with a single original, Barbara Wall approaches The Journey to the West as a dynamic text comprised of all its variations. She argues that all the creators of such variations, from Korean scholars in the 14th century to “boy bands” like Seventeen in the 21st century, participate in the ongoing story world known as The Journey to the West. Wall employs literary and quantitative analysis, ample graphic visualizations, and in-depth descriptions of classroom games to find new ways to understand the dynamics of transmedia storytelling and popular engagement with story worlds. Her approach opens new frontiers of intertextual analysis to literary scholars and teachers of literature who seek contemporary methods of introducing world literature to new generations of students.
Author : Megan Bryson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558430
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Masculinities written by Megan Bryson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While early Buddhists hailed their religion’s founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha’s body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine. This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks. Buddhist Masculinities adopts the methods of religious studies, anthropology, art history, textual-historical studies, and cultural studies to explore texts, images, films, media, and embodiments of masculinity across the Buddhist world, past and present. It turns scholarly attention to normative forms of masculinity that usually go unmarked and unstudied precisely because they are “normal,” illuminating the religious and cultural processes that construct Buddhist masculinities. Engaging with contemporary issues of gender identity, intersectionality, and sexual ethics, Buddhist Masculinities ushers in a new era for the study of Buddhism and gender.
