Seoul Man

Author : Frank Ahrens
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062405265

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Seoul Man by Frank Ahrens Pdf

Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir. When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the Washington Post, fell in love with a diplomat, his life changed dramatically. Following his new bride to her first appointment in Seoul, South Korea, Frank traded the newsroom for a corporate suite, becoming director of global communications at Hyundai Motors. In a land whose population is 97 percent Korean, he was one of fewer than ten non-Koreans at a company headquarters of thousands of employees. For the next three years, Frank traveled to auto shows and press conferences around the world, pitching Hyundai to former colleagues while trying to navigate cultural differences at home and at work. While his appreciation for absurdity enabled him to laugh his way through many awkward encounters, his job began to take a toll on his marriage and family. Eventually he became a vice president—the highest-ranking non-Korean at Hyundai headquarters. Filled with unique insights and told in his engaging, humorous voice, Seoul Man sheds light on a culture few Westerners know, and is a delightfully funny and heartwarming adventure for anyone who has ever felt like a fish out of water—all of us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Korea
ISBN : UCAL:$B579467

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The Korea Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Clayton Foulk
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0739120980

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America's Man in Korea by George Clayton Foulk Pdf

America's Man in Korea is the story of America's initial involvement in Korea as told through the private family letters of U.S. Navy ensign George Clayton Foulk, Washington's representative in Seoul in the mid-1880s. "The Hermit Kingdom," as Korea was known, was no ordinary diplomatic posting at this time. Emerging from centuries of self-imposed isolation, Korea was struggling to establish itself as an independent nation amid the imperial rivalries of China, Japan, England, and Russia; anti-foreign violence remained a simmering threat; the Korean government was a hotbed of intrigue and factional strife, its monarch King Kojong casting about for help. Foulk, fluent in Korean and the foremost western expert on the country, was an astute observer of this country's transformation. In his private letters, published here for the first time, Foulk recounts his struggle to represent the U.S. and to help Korea in the face of State Department indifference.

Author : Sang-Hun Choe,Christopher Torchia
Publisher : Master Communications, Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Korean language
ISBN : 9781932457032

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Looking for a Mr. Kim in Seoul by Sang-Hun Choe,Christopher Torchia Pdf

Author : Man-gil Kang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004213746

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A History of Contemporary Korea by Man-gil Kang Pdf

Now in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea covers: first, the Japanese colonial period, including detailed accounts of the anti Japanese independence movements, followed by the liberation of Korea, the Korean War and political developments up to the late 1980s.

Author : Tim Lehnert
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781927097595

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Seoul Book of Everything by Tim Lehnert Pdf

Your key to the South Korean city’s neighborhoods, green spaces, and urban design, as well as its history, museums, pop culture, shopping, and more. From ancient royal palaces and Korean traditional houses to all-night markets, N Seoul Tower, and the club scene, no city combines the ancient and the contemporary quite like Seoul. Local experts weigh in on one of the world’s most dynamic cities, including contributions from Robert Neff, Tracey Stark, Daniel Gray, Kim Young-sook, Joel Levin, Michael J. Meyers, and Mary Crowe. A comedian details the five things you must bring to Korea, a food writer picks five favorite restaurants, and a prominent meteorologist provides the low-down on Seoul’s climate. You’ll also find insider takes on local mountains and ghosts, as well as movies, tea houses, night spots, the economy, cultural treasures, essential reads, Buddhist shrines, and Seoul’s amazing postwar evolution. From the DMZ, the Han River, and Cheonggyecheon Stream to navigating local dining, linguistics, and cultural practices, this completely updated reference will become your go-to book on the “Land of the Morning Calm.”

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1724 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857431332

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The Far East and Australasia 2003 by Europa Publications Pdf

A unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.

Author : Seoul Film Commission,Seoul Metropolitan City
Publisher : 길잡이미디어
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Places in Seoul Cinema Fell in Love with by Seoul Film Commission,Seoul Metropolitan City Pdf

a guide to various places that were revitalized through movies or a drama series

Author : The National Folk Museum of Korea (South Korea)
Publisher : 길잡이미디어
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : 9788992128865

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Korean Culture and Seoul Olympic Studies by The National Folk Museum of Korea (South Korea) Pdf

Seoul Olympics and Korean Culture

Author : Seoul Metropolitan Government
Publisher : 길잡이미디어
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Seoul Tour Guidebook by Seoul Metropolitan Government Pdf

Walking the K-Star Road Scent of Spring in Seongbuk-dong The History Bus The Real Gangnam Style Reality Walks River of Light Seoul's Autumn Colors Nighttime stroll around Sinsa-dong HongdaeStylin’ It Up Sangam-dong: Heart of the Korean Wave

Author : Janghee Lee
Publisher : Seoul Selection
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781624121142

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Seoul's Historic Walks in Sketches by Janghee Lee Pdf

Seoul is a rapidly changing city, the epitome of the latest trends and technology. But looking closely in between the skyscrapers, there lie hints that reveal an alternate story, a story of a 600-year-old capital city. Seoul’s Historic Walks in Sketches discovers and brings to life these stories. From the Joseon era’s palaces and fortresses to modern skyscrapers of glass and steel built on historic sites, the author’s pencil sketches bring forth a new dimension of Seoul. Accompanying the illustrations are his insightful, witty commentaries on local history that go a long way in presenting readers with a captivating view of the unknown city, a city almost exotic in its mystery. A city, its architecture and its history: 15 must-see attractions in old town Seoul Through the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910), Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, industrialization, and democratization movements, countless stories of the changing times have been engraved in the nooks and crannies of Seoul. This book is a retrospect of the forgotten city of Hanyang (old Seoul), reviving the history once lived within the four ancient great gates. Many of the places covered in this book are among Seoul’s most famous landmarks and popular tourist attractions, yet the sagas unraveled at each destination impart an unconventional perspective. The author’s remarkably discerning eye notices and depicts the minute details most would miss around the city. For those unmoved by the textbook photographs and dry histories of existing guides to Seoul, this book’s intimate charm is sure to please. The ever-changing city of Seoul: Sites and stories unfamiliar even to locals It would be an understatement to say that this book is only dedicated to tracking down the historical traces of Seoul. As the author says, “Seoul isn’t an antique—it’s an ever-changing organism.” He discusses the recent changes that have proven significant to the city and introduces hidden attractions around the city, from an ecological park on a skyscraper rooftop to evidence of historical figures cleverly hidden in amongst the buildings. Seoul Historic Walks in Sketches contains extraordinary and unmatched insight into the city.

Author : Crystal S. Anderson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496830111

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Soul in Seoul by Crystal S. Anderson Pdf

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres, especially hip-hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational practices are deemed authentic by global fans who function as part of K-pop’s music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and African American performers. Through this process K-pop has arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white binary.

Author : Todd A. Henry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520958418

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Assimilating Seoul by Todd A. Henry Pdf

Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial expositions, and sanitation campaigns, Todd A. Henry offers a transnational account that treats the city’s public spaces as "contact zones," showing how residents negotiated pressures to become loyal, industrious, and hygienic subjects of the Japanese empire. Unlike previous, top-down analyses, this ethnographic history investigates modalities of Japanese rule as experienced from below. Although the colonial state set ambitious goals for the integration of Koreans, Japanese settler elites and lower-class expatriates shaped the speed and direction of assimilation by bending government initiatives to their own interests and identities. Meanwhile, Korean men and women of different classes and generations rearticulated the terms and degree of their incorporation into a multiethnic polity. Assimilating Seoul captures these fascinating responses to an empire that used the lure of empowerment to disguise the reality of alienation.

Author : Sun Joo Kim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295990415

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The Northern Region of Korea by Sun Joo Kim Pdf

Through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis, and journal entries from turn-of-the-century missionaries and traveling Russians in addition to many varieties of unconventional primary sources, the contributors creatively explore unfamiliar terrain while examining the culture, identity, and regional distinctiveness of the northern region and its people.

Author : Geir Helgesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136797576

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Democracy and Authority in Korea by Geir Helgesen Pdf

This controversial new study, breaks with the tradition of basing political studies on analyses of institutions and political personalities, by likening the Republic of Korea to a laboratory for the clash of political cultures. In the late 1940s, the Americans embarked upon a democratization programme designed to create a Western bulwark against the spread of communism in East Asia. The intervening years have seen the advent and demise of military rule, with South Korea now having a democratically-elected government. Although the US strategy thus seems successful, the political crises of 1995 in fact indicate that many obstacles remain here to the adoption of Western-style democracy. This study argues that socialization in general and political socialization in particular are key factors in any analysis of democracy, be it in Korea or elsewhere. Accordingly, the work draws on moral education textbooks, together with surveys and interviews among members of the urban intellectual elite. In this manner, the psychological roots of power and authority - key concepts to an understanding of 'good government' - are explored.