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If anyone is interested in getting the basic idea of Korea beyond the Kpop and Korean food, this is a great choice.
Going back 7 seven months, I knew nothing about South Korea. But as I have come to be a big fan of K-Pop and KDrama, I took a s... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When i came to korea in 1990 to live and work, my knowledge of korea was what i was able to glean from a south korean fodor's travel guide, travel information from the korea national tourism agency, a couple badly photocopied pages of firsthand experiences by english teachers at the language school i would be teaching at in southern seoul, and a feature story in an issue of national geographic magazine.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is no dearth of information about korea and it seems with every new book or blog about korea another expert chimes in.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Additionally, it should be required reading for anyone doing business in korea: from students and military personnel to business persons and diplomats.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In korea, the impossible country, tudor explains korea like a person in a long-term relationship about her partner.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For example, as the book discusses han [한]--a sorrowful emotion that is widely recognized to form a significant strain in korean aesthetics--tudor introduces a novelist who claims that han is a relatively new concept implanted by imperial japan in the early 20th century as it was colonizing korea.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Regardless of the strength of this claim, simply introducing this claim does much to refresh the prevalent discussion about han that is often banal in english-language literature about korea.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In many parts, it overly relies on confucianism to explain away characteristics of korean society when jumping straight into the facts would have been preferable.