Beyond Kimchi: History, Culture, and Everyday Life in Korea
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Beyond Kimchi: History, Culture, and Everyday Life in Korea
14.99 €
Renowned orientalist Andrei Lankov describes how everyday life in Korea has changed over the past few centuries, which have been a time of turbulent events and enormous changes for this country.
The book consists of essays, each of which is devoted to a certain aspect of everyday Korean life. Over these three centuries, a small kingdom on the far edge of Eurasia made its first contacts with the West, became a Japanese colony, then regained its independence and, finally, having survived the division between the South and the North and gone through years of bloody civil strife, turned into one of the richest and most unique countries in the world.
The book tells how all these events influenced the lives of ordinary Koreans: how food and clothing changed, how newspapers and trains appeared, how Korean oligarchs made their first millions, how Koreans became addicted to beer and coffee, how the birth rate changed with the growth of prosperity in the Republic of Korea and how the South now treats the North.
The book consists of essays, each of which is devoted to a certain aspect of everyday Korean life. Over these three centuries, a small kingdom on the far edge of Eurasia made its first contacts with the West, became a Japanese colony, then regained its independence and, finally, having survived the division between the South and the North and gone through years of bloody civil strife, turned into one of the richest and most unique countries in the world.
The book tells how all these events influenced the lives of ordinary Koreans: how food and clothing changed, how newspapers and trains appeared, how Korean oligarchs made their first millions, how Koreans became addicted to beer and coffee, how the birth rate changed with the growth of prosperity in the Republic of Korea and how the South now treats the North.
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