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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing...
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporti...
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Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and ...
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Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed...
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The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronic...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $43.00 - Original price $43.00Original price $43.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth ...
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Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through t...
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Meegook: Dry Bones
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In November, 1982, Jesus asked Kang on the darkest night of her life, "Why aren't you going to church?" Kang who had broken almost all of the Ten C...
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A Modern Pioneer in Korea; the Life Story of Henry G. Appenzeller
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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BTS Dictionary: Behind the Music and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $13.32 - Original price $13.32Original price $13.32$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The BTS KPOP Dictionary "The BTS KPOP Dictionary" is a comprehensive guidebook that offers a straightforward approach to acquiring Korean vocabular...
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Kwanjangnim Original: Haidong Gumdo
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Never Give Up, Never Give In" Kwanjangnim Original Haidong Gumdo is the definitive and only international reference to the art of Haidong Gumdo....
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Exit Emperor Kim Jong-Il: Notes from His Former Mentor
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival o...
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Korean-American Stories: Collection of Autobiographies (Color Paperback)
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$86.99$86.99 - $86.99Current price $86.99| /This book contains autobiographies by 12 individuals of Korean descent. However, their background experiences are vastly different. The editor of t...
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A Nurse's Story: Medical Missionary in Korea and Siberia, 1915-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Nurse's Story is the memoir of a woman who left her small town in Ohio to train as a nurse in New York City and then travel to the other side of ...
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Bearing My Seoul: Tales of a Black American Girl in a Big Asian City
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The truth is always better than fiction!Bearing My Seoul, is a collection of sometimes-funny, always-interesting essays written about a Black Ameri...
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Massacre at Hill 303
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /James M. Rudd tells the author about his experiences growing up, during the Korean War, and the rest of his adult life. It highlights a massacre at...
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Finding Freedom: Stories of Renewed Hope in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Every year, thousands of North Koreans risk their lives to escape political and economic oppression. Over the course of several years, we've helped...
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Kim Il-sung: The Controversial Life and Legacy of North Korea's First Supreme Leader
PaperbackOriginal price $10.24 - Original price $10.24Original price $10.24$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "We are of a single nation, of the same blood, but forcibly ...
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Called by Another Name: A Memoir of the Gwangju Uprising
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The American who walked into the turmoil of Korean historyAfter graduating from university, David wanted to make a positive change in the world. He...
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Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Starting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the mate...
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united cult...
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The Prisoner: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democr...
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One Left: A Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions...
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Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /This book focuses on the transitional period in late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn dynasty Korea from the 1270s until 1506, situating the Korean peninsula...
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