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Suk-Young Kim
North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction…
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Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts…
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An illuminating look at the origins, manifestations, and future prospects for the global juggernaut that is Korean pop culture
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The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists…
Unique in showcasing both the front stage and back stage realities of the K-pop world, this book presents the K-pop phenomenon from many perspectives: as music industry, dance practices, talent…
1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more…
Yong Kim
Kim Yong shares a brutal account of life in a labour camp - a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state.
Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of the survivor of a North Korean labor camp, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand…
Offers a detailed and comprehensive look at this vitally important field. Centrally concerned with the development of successful education systems and institutions throughout the world, the volume addresses those pressing…
Flood/drought, risk management, and policy: decision-making under uncertainty. Hydrometeorological extremes and their impact on human-environment systems. Regional and nonstationary frequency analysis of extreme events. Detection and prediction of hydrometeorological extremes…
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