Author: Jin Stearns
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300808640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The true story of six-year-old Jin Soo, who, after getting lost in a crowded train station in Seoul, South Korea, hides under a bench to wait for his family to come and save him. His family never comes. Jin Soo realizes this is the first step in a journey that will take him halfway across the world to a new family and then back again to search for the family he never meant to lose.
Lost Seoul
Author: Jin Stearns
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300808640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The true story of six-year-old Jin Soo, who, after getting lost in a crowded train station in Seoul, South Korea, hides under a bench to wait for his family to come and save him. His family never comes. Jin Soo realizes this is the first step in a journey that will take him halfway across the world to a new family and then back again to search for the family he never meant to lose.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300808640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The true story of six-year-old Jin Soo, who, after getting lost in a crowded train station in Seoul, South Korea, hides under a bench to wait for his family to come and save him. His family never comes. Jin Soo realizes this is the first step in a journey that will take him halfway across the world to a new family and then back again to search for the family he never meant to lose.
Lost in Seoul
Author: Michael Gregory Stephens
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Korea
Author: Bevin Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Alexander shows the causes and effects of the Korean War and demonstrates how the United States could have avoided the confrontation with the Red Chinese if it had correctly interpreted signals from them.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Alexander shows the causes and effects of the Korean War and demonstrates how the United States could have avoided the confrontation with the Red Chinese if it had correctly interpreted signals from them.
The Park Chung Hee Era
Author: Byung-Kook Kim
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government's obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapy-interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cuts-met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship. This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily between opposition forces calling for democratic reforms and the Park government's obsession with economic growth. The chaebol (a powerful conglomerate of multinationals based in South Korea) received massive government support to pioneer new growth industries, even as a nationwide campaign of economic shock therapy-interest hikes, devaluation, and wage cuts-met strong public resistance and caused considerable hardship. This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth.
The Test of War
Author: Doris M.. Condit
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Author: Steven L. Rearden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: The test of war, 1950-1953
Author: Steven L. Rearden
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Time Out Seoul
Author: Editors of Time Out
Publisher: Time Out
ISBN: 1846702836
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Time Out Seoul helps travelers get the best out of the ever-changing South Korean metropolis. As well as covering visitor essentials, this new guide offers detailed coverage of cultural highlights, shopping, and dining. From hiking and public baths to trendy shopping, Time Out has got you covered — experience the city like a native and avoid the obvious tourist traps. Time Out Seoul assists visitors in navigating the cultural and financial center of East Asia, whether one is seeking the arts (over 700 museums and 400 galleries), shopping (choices from Prada to flea markets), temples and shrines (five major palaces), or the best in Korean BBQ.
Publisher: Time Out
ISBN: 1846702836
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Time Out Seoul helps travelers get the best out of the ever-changing South Korean metropolis. As well as covering visitor essentials, this new guide offers detailed coverage of cultural highlights, shopping, and dining. From hiking and public baths to trendy shopping, Time Out has got you covered — experience the city like a native and avoid the obvious tourist traps. Time Out Seoul assists visitors in navigating the cultural and financial center of East Asia, whether one is seeking the arts (over 700 museums and 400 galleries), shopping (choices from Prada to flea markets), temples and shrines (five major palaces), or the best in Korean BBQ.
The Presidency of Harry S. Truman
Author: Donald R. McCoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In this volume in the American Presidency Series, McCoy recounts and evaluates the record of the Truman Administration and identifies its distinctiveness and relations to the past, its own time, and the future. Focusing on the problems that faced the United States between 1945-1953, he explains how Truman's vigor in championing civil rights, health, labor, education, and natural resource policies brought him immense unpopularity, and how, despite this, Truman triumphed in 1948, winning bipartisan support for his foreign and military policies. The author depicts Truman as an honest, hard-working, capable and complex man, and describes his relationships with his staff, Congress, foreign representatives, the judiciary, political parties, the press, the public, and influential private citizens. ISBN 0-7006-0252-6 : $25.00.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
In this volume in the American Presidency Series, McCoy recounts and evaluates the record of the Truman Administration and identifies its distinctiveness and relations to the past, its own time, and the future. Focusing on the problems that faced the United States between 1945-1953, he explains how Truman's vigor in championing civil rights, health, labor, education, and natural resource policies brought him immense unpopularity, and how, despite this, Truman triumphed in 1948, winning bipartisan support for his foreign and military policies. The author depicts Truman as an honest, hard-working, capable and complex man, and describes his relationships with his staff, Congress, foreign representatives, the judiciary, political parties, the press, the public, and influential private citizens. ISBN 0-7006-0252-6 : $25.00.