Korea At A Glance Full Color

Want to learn and understand Korea in a quick and easy way? Then this book is for you! KOREA AT A GLANCE: Quick and Easy Visual Book To Help You Learn and Understand Korea is full of intuitive, easy-to-understand infographics and illustrations to help you absorb a great amount of knowledge and information in the most effective way. This book contains 52 pages of large 8.5" x 11" full-color sections, jam packed with all the essential information and facts you should know, covering various topics such as Korean History, Korean Culture, Korean Superstitions, and so much more! It's specially designed for people with no prior knowledge about Korea, and even little kids can learn easily thanks to our interesting illustrations and intuitive infographics. It also makes a great companion for your Korean study needs - the abridged highlight reel of Korean History will especially come in handy. The book has a multitude of topics and subjects, such as: Geography - WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KOREA? - HOW FAR IS KOREA? - HOW BIG IS KOREA? - WHAT TIME IS IT IN KOREA? Culture - THE KOREAN FLAG - WHAT DO ALL THE SYMBOLS MEAN? - HISTORY OF TAE GEUK GI (South Korean Flag) AND IN GONG GI (North Korean Flag) - OFFICIAL NATIONAL SYMBOLS OF KOREA - WHO LIVES IN SOUTH KOREA? - AEGUKGA - THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF KOREA, WITH LYRICS TRANSLATION - HOLIDAYS OF KOREA - TAE KWON DO - KOREAN MARTIAL ART AND NATIONAL SPORT - KOREAN BLOOD TYPE PERSONALITY THEORY History & Tradition - HANGUL THE KOREAN ALPHABET - THE STORY BEHIND KOREAN LAST NAMES - KOREAN SUPERSTITIONS THAT MANY PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE - DOL JABI - PREDICTING BABY'S FUTURE - GUARDIANS OF KOREAN VILLAGES Food - TOP 10 ALL-TIME POPULAR KOREAN FOODS - THE EVOLUTION OF KIMCHI Economy - HOW MUCH IS THE KOREAN WON (CURRENCY)? - ECONOMY: SOUTH KOREA VS NORTH KOREA Tourism - COUNTRIES THAT DON'T NEED A VISA TO VISIT KOREA - KOREAN PLACES AND THEIR MEANINGS And there is the abridged version of Korean History, which covers not only the timeline but also have separate sections on important events and figures with full explanation and description! Korean History Highlight Reel - GOJOSEON, KOREA'S FIRST NATION - THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD - UNIFIED SILLA - GORYEO, THE GLORY OF KOREA - JOSEON DYNASTY, THE LAND OF THE MORNING CALM - DREAMING OF A MODERN STATE, THE KOREAN EMPIRE - SAD HISTORY - JAPANESE COLONIAL PERIOD - KOREAN WAR TIMELINE - POST KOREAN WAR As you can see, we've a LOT of information in this book! We're certain that you will learn a great deal with it. Have fun studying about Korea! After reading this book, you would have gained so much knowledge;)

This pocket-size phrasebook is a valuable travel companion for visitors to Korea. It presents more than 2,000 key words and phrases in Korean characters with phonetic pronunciations and English meanings. Using different color-coded page edges for each chapter, the book categorizes words and phrases according to themes that include communicating with hotel personnel, finding one's way around town, shopping, ordering meals in restaurants, dealing with money matters, seeking medical care, going to sporting and entertainment events, and much more. Also included are city, rail, and rapid transit maps, and general travel tips for visitors to Korea. The book's clear vinyl jacket gives the book extra durability for travel situations.

With over 350 essential topics and most frequently asked questions, covering virtually every aspect of Korean culture by laying out all the details, you will fully understand Korea and appreciate its culture inside and out!

As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by scholars, journalists and, from the beginning of the 1960s, by the state, as music genres have been documented, preserved and promoted as 'Intangible Cultural Properties'. Practitioners have been appointed 'holders' or, in everyday speech, 'Human Cultural Properties', to maintain, perform and teach exemplary versions of tradition. Over the last few years, the Korean preservation system has become a model for UNESCO's 'Living Human Treasures' and 'Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind'. In this volume, Keith Howard provides the first comprehensive analysis in English of the system. He documents court music and dance, Confucian and shaman ritual music, folksongs, the professional folk-art genres of p'ansori ('epic storytelling through song') and sanjo ('scattered melodies'), and more, as well as instrument making, food preparation and liquor distilling - a good performance, after all, requires wine to flow. The extensive documentation reflects considerable fieldwork, discussion and questioning carried out over a 25-year period, and blends the voices of scholars, government officials, performers, craftsmen and the general public. By interrogating both contemporary and historical data, Howard negotiates the debates and critiques that surround this remarkable attempt to protect local and national music and other performance arts and crafts. An accompanying CD illustrates many of the music genres considered, featuring many master musicians including some who have now died. The preservation of music and other performance arts and crafts is part of the contemporary zeitgeist, yet occupies contested territory. This is particularly true when the concept of 'tradition' is invoked. Within Korea, the recognition of the fragility of indigenous music inherited from earlier times is balanced by an awareness of the need to maintain identity as lifestyles change in response to modernization and globalization. Howard argues that Korea, and the world, is a better place when the richness of indigenous music is preserved and promoted.