A Korean Odyssey
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A Korean Odyssey
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Author : Michael Gibb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-15
A Korean Odyssey written by Michael Gibb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with categories.
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.
A Korean War Odyssey
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Author : Tom Gormley
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-20
A Korean War Odyssey written by Tom Gormley and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Korean Odyssey
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Author : Martin Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Korean Odyssey written by Martin Samuel and has been published by Partridge Publishing Singapore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Fiction categories.
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.
Korea S Twentieth Century Odyssey
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Author : Michael E. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2007-04-30
Korea S Twentieth Century Odyssey written by Michael E. Robinson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with History categories.
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.
Korean Odyssey
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Author : Brian Heuvel
language : en
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Korean Odyssey written by Brian Heuvel and has been published by Booksurge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Travel categories.
"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.
The Odyssey Of Korean Democracy
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Author : Manwoo Lee
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1990-09-25
The Odyssey Of Korean Democracy written by Manwoo Lee and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-25 with History categories.
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.
Korean Odyssey Eb
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Author : Dale A Dye
language : en
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Korean Odyssey Eb written by Dale A Dye and has been published by Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Fiction categories.
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.
Korean Odyssey
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Author : Dale A. Dye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with categories.
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.
Korean Odyssey
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Author : Dale A. Dye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-11-08
Korean Odyssey written by Dale A. Dye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-08 with categories.
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.
Quiet Odyssey
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Author : Mary Paik Lee
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-11-04
Quiet Odyssey written by Mary Paik Lee and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with Social Science categories.
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.