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Korea is a nation with about five thousand years of history and rich cultural heritage. It is a country which realized stunning economic growth and democratic development in a very short span of time. In addition, Korea has recently been put on the proverbial global map, propelled by the Korean wave which hit the world, yet the country is still far from well-known across the world. What is Korea really like? In fact, it is not easy for both Ko...

Contemporary Korean Arts Series 5 Contemporary Korean Dancers and Dance Companies An Overview of Past and Present Koreans have always enjoyed and appreciated dance. In the past, Korean dance was intimately rooted in people's everyday lives, and the ideas that governed everyday life in turn greatly impacted the form and content of dance. However, with the turn of the modern era, Korea began to adopt Western culture, and dance was no exception...

The aim of Modern Korean Ink Painting is to further a general understanding of how Korean art and the times it represented were related. Starting with the dawn of the modern age in Korean art (1876-1910), which looks at the legacy of court painting and the last of the literati painters, the book then moves on to the modern art era in Korea (1920-1940), following that up by examining the forces at work during the perpetuation of nationalism, wh...

These days, the opening of doors between states through international events is gaining momentum and through these exchanges, the breadth, diversity, and quality of cultural and artistic endeavors are growing. In this respect, I cannot emphasize enough the meaning and value of managing the unique and precious cultural resources we inherit from our ancestors and sharing them outside of our own country. Leading museums around the world have est...

Korean anthropology holds a unique position in the field of anthropology, having first developed with native scholars studying native culture under the prevalent influence of cultural and social anthropology, rather than with the past western practice of studying the Other. Since the 1980s, several attempts have been made to examine Korean culture from different points of view, such as political economy and area studies. This trend is visible ...

Buddhist culture and thought have had a tremendous impact on the lives and thought of Korean people ever since the religion was introduced to the Korean peninsula in the late fourth century. Most of the time, the religion received strong state support for the construction of temples and pagodas and the making of Buddhist images for worship. At times, the religion encountered opposition, often for political reasons, but it continued to play an ...

Exchanging Western values for far-off Thailand, Gunnar Ray plans to teach in the countryside and absorb the country's ancient wisdom. When monsoon rains flood the lands above his adopted village, catastrophe strikes. Gunnar's innocence is swept downstream along with hundreds of Thai lives.

In the final years of colonial Burma, young Andrew Wells arrives in Rangoon to assume a post in the Commissioner's office. As he grows fond of his adopted country, its people, and in particular of the charming and beautiful Burmese Mya Shwe, Andrew also begins to penetrate the cultural veil that obscures the underlying causes of unrest.

Devoid of all statistics and political observations, this is a spontaneous and irrepressibly humorous view of life in Burma at the turn of the 20th century.

This study rediscovers the forgotten ancient kingdom of Kibi and reveals the true ancestry of the Japanese imperial family and the cultural roots of the Japanese people. It offers conclusions on the consequences of the migration to the Japanese archipelago by conquering peoples from Korea.