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Free Download Kyung Moon Hwang, "Past Forward: Essays in Korean History"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1783088796, 1783088788 | PDF | pages: 256 | 9.3 mb
A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, Past Forward introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals, social developments and cultural shifts. Adapted from Kyung Moon Hwang’s regular columns in the Korea Times of Seoul, the essays present interpretative points concerning historical debates and controversies to generate thinking about the ongoing impact of the past on the present and vice versa: how Korea’s present circumstances reflect and shape the evolving understanding of its past. In taking the reader on a compelling journey through history, Past Forward paints a distinctive, fascinating portrait of Korea and Koreans both yesterday and today.

Free Download I Promise You I’ll Be Home: Korean War Letters of a U.S. Marine by Al Martinez
English | March 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 1476693161 | 244 pages | True EPUB | 9.57 MB
As a 21-year-old Marine sent to the front lines of the Korean War, Al Martinez dispatched letters almost daily to his young bride, Joanne. In battle, he experienced the worst that war can bring, and then he served as a combat correspondent and as writer and editor of his regimental newsletter, the Ridgerunner. After the war, he entered a career in journalism, becoming a featured columnist for the Los Angeles Times where he would earn three shared Pulitzer Prizes.

Free Download Chae: Korean slow food for a better life by Jung Eun Chae
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1743798806 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 221.17 MB
Not just a cookbook but an essential guide to Korean slow food and fermentation, Chae follows the seasons of a calendar year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each season forms its own chapter with approximately 15-20 recipes and foundations, presenting traditional Korean technique with locally sourced produce.

Free Download Philip M. Parker, "Webster’s Korean to English Crossword Puzzles: Level 2"
English | 2006 | pages: 118 | ISBN: 0497254727 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Even if you do not like crossword puzzles, you may end up loving these. Designed for mother-tongue or completely fluent speakers of Korean wanting to improve their English skills, the puzzles may also be entertaining to English speakers. They are formatted so that each puzzle can be solved in 15 to 30 minutes. The vocabulary gradually becomes harder across puzzles thus increasing the challenge as you progress. Each book has 100 puzzles and each puzzle covers some 30 word pairs (equaling 3000 challenges!). These are truly pleasant, if not addictive, crossword puzzles for language learning. Learning a language is always difficult. To ease the pain, hints are provided in small script at the bottom of each page, though these are selected to prevent an engineered solution to the puzzle. Full solutions are provided in the back of the book. These two features (hints and verifiable solutions), force the reader to decipher a word’s meaning and serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. One recent reviewer of this series noted "As a Peace Corps Volunteer … this is definitely a fun way to keep up the language skills … The series has a whole bunch of "rarely spoken" languages, widely unknown to us in the Western world." Another reviewer notes: "Good teacher as it has words listed below that are in puzzle so the clues are there if you need them." Public domain translations for Korean contributed to Webster’s Online Dictionary used in these puzzles may have originated from uncited volunteers, native speakers, professional translators, field linguists and academics (not by the editor of the puzzles). If you would like citation for any translations, make suggestions, note errors, or contribute in any other way, please email Philip M. Parker at INSEAD, who will update this series from time to time. Reproduction rights are granted to educators.

Free Download Thomas More, "Utopia (Webster’s Korean Thesaurus Edition)"
English | 2006 | pages: 158 | ISBN: 0497900173 | PDF | 1,6 mb
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Utopia. This edition would be useful if you would like to

Free Download Ji-Hae Kang, "Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others "
English | ISBN: 1138589519 | 2019 | 262 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The focus of this volume is on how the people of the Korean Peninsula―historically an important part of the Sinocentric world in East Asia and today a vital economic and strategic site―have negotiated oral and written interactions with their Asian neighbors and Europeans in the past and present through the mediation of translators and interpreters.

Free Download Things Korean By O-Young Lee
1999 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0804821291 | PDF | 100 MB
This is a beautiful book that presents images and aspects of Korean culture.

Free Download William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor (Webster’s Korean Thesaurus Edition)"
English | 2006 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 0497900505 | PDF | 1,4 mb
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor. This edition would be useful i

Free Download Don Baker, "Korean Spirituality"
English | 2008 | pages: 185 | ISBN: 0824832574, 0824832337 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Korea has one of the most dynamic and diverse religious cultures of any nation on earth. Koreans are highly religious, yet no single religious community enjoys dominance. Buddhists share the Korean religious landscape with both Protestant and Catholic Christians as well as with shamans, Confucians, and practitioners of numerous new religions. As a result, Korea is a fruitful site for the exploration of the various manifestations of spirituality in the modern world. At the same time, however, the complexity of the country’s religious topography can overwhelm the novice explorer.

Free Download Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century By Etsuko Hae-Jin Kang
1997 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0333699394 | PDF | 20 MB
During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea. This book purports that this period, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, was the formative stage of the East Asian diplomacy and ideology which laid the foundations for foreign relations between these two countries in the modern period. The book also investigates how Japan’s and Korea’s political and diplomatic ideologies emerged as a nascent form of nationalism which scholars have not previously clarified.