The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576072776)

The Koreas delivers border-to-border coverage of North and South Korea, with chapters dedicated to history and geography, social and cultural customs, and economics and politics.

It's not hard to understand why Koreans describe their lives as han, which means "living with a great and sustained sorrow." In the 20th century alone, they endured a 35 year Japanese military occupation, one of the most brutal civil wars in history, and decades of occupation by rival superpowers.

Yet the story of this hauntingly beautiful, mountainous land is not ultimately one of war and devastation. The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook tells the story of a warm and generous people who have retained their distinctive language and culture despite repeated foreign occupations, achieved a literacy rate of almost 100 percent, outscored nearly every other nation in science and math, and reshaped their devastated post-war economy into one of the four tigers of Asian economic growth.

Author: Mary E. Connor
ISBN-10: 1576072770
ISBN-13: 9781576072776
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2002
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.44h x 5.96w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 260
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2003 pg. 76
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 47